A recent program on Healing Haunted Histories that focuses on the impacts California Missions had upon Indigenous peoples; we did this ~50 min. presentation to support our friends at the Los Angeles Catholic Worker, who are pushing back on their Archdiocese’s sentimentalizing of this history and legacy.
Recorded July 15, 2021. Elaine and Ched offer a Bible study from Healing Haunted Histories (which is part of CLBSJ’s imprint at Wipf & Stock). Our comments are followed by a response from Maria De Freece Lawrence (Lenape) and Gretchen Thies Brokaw (Shinnecock), founding members of the Sweetwater Cultural Center, and a conversation about this…
How do activism and scholarship contribute to our understanding of Scripture in the world today? On July 15, 2021, CLBSJ welcomed Elaine Enns and Ched Myers for a discussion of their newest book, Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization. They were joined by Maria De Freece Lawrence (Lenape) and Gretchen Thies Brokaw (Shinnecock),…
In November 2020 Ched gave this brief (9 min) reflection for the Graduate Theological Union’s Alumni in Conversation series, explaining concisely why BCM uses the rubric “discipleship at the intersection of seminary, sanctuary, streets and soil,” and what it means for our personal and political spiritual formation and activism.
June 6th, 2021.Speaking to Westwood Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, Elaine Enns and Ched Myers wove together BCM’s two most recent book projects—Watershed Discipleship (2016) and Healing Haunted Histories (2021)—showing how the latter integrates the ecological paradigm shifts of the former into Indigenous justice.
Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries co-founders Elaine Enns and Ched Myers join Shane Claiborne & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove to talk about watershed discipleship, the challenge of settler colonialism, and their new book, Healing Haunted Histories – for the June Morning Prayer for Red Letter Christians and the School for Conversion.
5/26/2021 webinar celebrating the release of new educational resources from our Coalition with a Zoom conversation about reparative justice with contributors Erica Littlewolf, Elaine Enns and Ched Myers, and John Stoesz. What does it mean to repair harms done to Indigenous communities and their lands under the Doctrine of Discovery? How can the Church participate…
Ched gave this keynote talk on the fiftieth anniversary of the Catholic Committee of Appalachia, an exemplary faith-rooted organizing collaborative. After establishing his “kindredness” with exploited mountain folk, Ched surveys the Jubilee theme in scripture. He then suggests three trajectories of Jubilee faith today:a) Return to the land for those displaced as socio-ecological re-placement and…
In 2020 Ched gave this devotional for the Nomad Podcast in the UK (www.nomadpodcast.co.uk). In this devotion, Ched takes us on a journey down the Ventura river, where he lives in California, and goes on to open up the radical political imagination of the many biblical visions of rivers, in a world where colonization and…
Mennonite Central Committee, Saskatchewan: April 29th, 2021. Joined by Cree elder Harry Lafond and other Saskatchewan leaders, Elaine and Ched introduce four aspects of restorative solidarity as outlined in Healing Haunted Histories in a 90-minute program with slides and Q & A.