A Sermon at Nutana Park Mennonite Church Saskatoon, SK, Jul 28, 2024Ched Myers & Elaine Enns A man came from Baal-shalishah bringing food from the first fruits to the man of God: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. Elisha said, “Give it to the people and let them eat.” …
Last week the wonderful Janet Wolf invited us to send a message to our friend and mentor Marion Wright Edelman for her 85th birthday on June 6th. Here’s what I wrote:  Dearest Marion:  We have so missed seeing you each summer at the Proctor Institute; the last  time was, 2019, pre-Covid! I want you to…
Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary – Indigenous Study Committee Co-sponsored by the Center for Ecological Regeneration and the Stead Center for Ethics and Values in support of Garrett’s Indigenous Study Committee. “Building Capacity for a Discipleship of Decolonization: Frameworks and Practices for Reparative Justice” Elaine Enns and Ched Myers introduced the Garrett community to the model…
United Church of Canada Elaine and Ched took a brief tour of their book, Healing Haunted Histories, and shared the questions and reflections that helped to frame their exploration of family histories, and how they intersect with colonialism, and their impact on contemporary discipleship. Note: Elaine & Ched begin their comments at 4:00 and conclude…
Ched’s short (11 min) video tribute to Norman Gottwald was used at a memorial session at the Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting in Denver, in November 2022.
by Ched Myers (BCM ENews, October, 2022) Luke’s middle part (roughly chapters 9-19) is called by scholars the “Special Section” because it mostly consists of uniquely Lukan material. The backbone of this sequence’s architecture is a remarkable series of stories about rich men. They articulate a searing critique of “Affluenza,” but culminate in the surprising…
by Elaine Enns and Ched Myers Sojourners, August 2022, pp 32-37 In April [2022], Pope Francis made a long-awaited apology to a Canadian delegation of Inuit, First Nations, and Metis leaders at the Vatican for the “deplorable” violations children suffered at Catholic-run Indian ResÂidential Schools for more than a cenÂtury. The pope committed to come…
On Memorial Day 2022, Elaine & Ched interviewed Rose Berger, Senior Editor at Sojourners Magazine and veteran Catholic peace and justice activist. Rose was 48 hours back from a week-long international, interreligious Peace Delegation to Ukraine—the first such group to visit Kyiv since the Russian invasion began on Feb 24, 2022. The religious leaders visited…
by Ched Myers $5.00 (electronic versions only) Email BCM to PURCHASE (group discounts apply) First published in 2002, we have just completed a refresh of the Biblical Vision of Sabbath Economics booklet. It is currently available for just US$5.00, in PDF, EBook (ePub) and flipbook (browser) formats. Biblical Vision, by Ched Myers, offers seven studies…
Last month (April 2022) Elaine & Ched teamed up with ReconciliAsian to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles Uprising (as we did for the 25th anniversary in 2017). Watch the webinar we did with Sue Park Hur, David Moore and Daniela Lazaro-Manalo.