By Ched Myers Talk given to the Episcopal Urban Caucus, spring 2002. Published by The Witness online. 12 pp. Not too far from where we sit today, hidden at the heart of post-modern Los Angeles, surrounded by gleaming skyscrapers built by and for Big Capital, lies the placita, once the center of the old Mexican…
By Ched Myers Priests & People (UK). 8 pp. “LOOK, WHAT MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURES!” (Mk 13:1). Jesus’ disciples cower fascinated, before the Jerusalem Temple edifice. It is indeed a magnificent structurebigger than life, architectural symbol of their social project. But Mark’s Jesus refuses to be impressed, for he understands what they do not. This House must…
By Ched Myers Reflections on and study material prepared for a mission program on Aboriginal justice hosted by The Uniting Church of Australia, 2002. 14 pp. Sunrise in a caravan park in Deniliquin in northeast Victoria, Australia. I awaken to a cacophony of screaming cockatoos and galahs, a manic morning-song chant of praise. Outside the…
By Simon Barrow. British Journal of Theological Education (12:2) pp 95ff. 13 pp. Ched Myers is not a well-known figure in European church or academic circles. He is a forty-something fifth-generation Californian white male. Los Angeles, a city ‘oppressed by the hucksters of over-development and quick profit’ (his words) is the place he calls home….
Inward/Outward, Winter, pp 1ff. 5 pp. KM: Ched, what do you mean when you say “Sabbath Economics?” Aren’t those two words contradictory? Isn’t “Sabbath” about letting go and receiving and “economics” about attaining and possessing? How do they fit together? CM: You are certainly correct in your impression that these two terms, when viewed from…
By Ched Myers With Matthew Colwell. Studies produced for the Center for a New American Dream. 11 pp. Few of us would argue with the complaint that Christmas has become too “commercialized.” It has deteriorated into an overheated festival of manic consumption in which the majority of the gifts are purchased by people who cannot…
By Ched Myers The Other Side. 1 p. This week a Baptist friend from North Carolina wrote me asking for some biblical background to the phrase “God Bless America.” He was commendably trying to discern the spirits of the times, a difficult task in days of warmaking. I got to work right away because of…
By Ched Myers Catholic New Times (Toronto), p. 9. 2 pp. Article link – this will take you to this free article on the Shalom Center website (in a new window). A friend of mine who teaches in the local public school reported that this was the first question asked her by third graders the morning…
By Ched Myers A chapter in The Other Side of Sin: Woundedness from the Perspective of the Sinned-Against, edited by Susan Nelson and Andrew Sung Park, SUNY Press, pp 77-108. 23 pp. “The vocabulary of Christian faith suffers from misunderstanding at every turn, but no one term is as badly understood in both society and…
By Ched Myers Ministerial Formation (WCC, Geneva) . 5 pp. This brief reflection proceeds from the conviction that the goal of theological education in the North American context today should be to equip everyday disciples to overcome their sense of disempowerment and denial in order to engage in the evangelical works of mercy and service,…