By Ched Myers and Matthew Colwell: $25.00 Email BCM to PURCHASE Orbis Books, 228 pp., paperback, with index and bibliography. “The stranger has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the sojourner.” (Job 31:32) The perspective of the immigrant offers fresh eyes for reading the Bible, which in turns offers a…
by Ched Myers In The Season of Creation: A Preaching Commentary. Ed. by N. Habel, D. Rhoads, H. Santmire. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, pp 83-99. Full Article:Â Land Sunday SKU: 11-3-Pb
by Ched Myers America, Jan 1 2007, pp 16ff. 3 pp, pix The origins of the feast of the Epiphany are historically complicated and ecclesially disputed. We might think of it as a kind of peace offering from the Western to the Eastern church, given the latter’s date (surely older) of Jan. 6 for the…
by Ched Myers A talk given at the “Posadas sin Fronteras” at the U.S. Mexico border, December 2006. 5 pp. I want to begin by honoring the two brothers we are remembering today. The late Franciscan Brother Ed Dunn was a gentle but strong presence in this movement, always looking for deeper solidarity with the…
by Ched Myers Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries E-News, 2006. 3 pp. On Sunday, Aug 6th, fifty of us gathered in central California to remind ourselves that communion with the Divine must be linked to resistance to evil. Organized by Catholic Worker communities, the event celebrated the traditional Catholic Feast of the Transfiguration, and mourned Hiroshima Day,…
By Ched Myers In Getting on Message: Challenging the Christian Right from the Heart of the Gospel, ed. by Peter Laarman, Boston: Beacon Press, 2006, pp. 51-67. 9 pp In the first-century Pax Romana, Christians had the difficult and demanding task of discerning how to cling to a radical ethos of life – symbolized preeminently…
By Ched Myers Published in Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries E-News. 4pp. Elaine and I have experienced a lot of loss over the last two years. The death of loved ones leaves a hole in our hearts and souls, one that can be salved only with memory. We North Americans, however, are not very competent at the…
By Ched Myers Talk at Presbybop’s “Jazz and the Church” Conference, New York. 11 pp. Azusa Street today is a garbage-strewn lane tucked away in Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles, about 5 miles from my home in East L.A. The teeming tourists and transients are ignorant about its historical significance in the history of…
By Ched Myers A sermon delivered at Greenbelt Festival, UK, August. 4, 2004. 4 pp. To the hardworking organizers of this amazing Greenbelt gathering; to the campers soldiering through the mud; to all the beautiful families, teenagers, and elders; to the artists and musicians andpoets—and all of us who wish we were; to the crews…