By Ched Myers In Apostle of Peace: Essays in Honor of Daniel Berrigan, Orbis Books, 1996. 4 pp. I wish to reflect on Daniel Berrigan’s contribution to my understanding of how to reach and teach and live the Bible. If my appreciation seems like a eulogy, it is because I believe that good words about those…
By Ched Myers Sojourners, May. [Reprinted in The Rise of Christian Conscience, San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1987.] 6 pp. Civil disobedience as a political tactic is a relatively recent genesis, but resistance to human sovereigns is as old as civilization itself. In the ancient world, this resistance usually took the forms of refusal to…
By Ched Myers Christian Century, Sept 16. [Repr. in Border Regions of Faith: An Anthology of Religion and Social Change, ed. by K. Aman, Orbis, 1987.] 5 pp. On a clear, brisk predawn September morning in 1979, two dozen Christians gathered at the eastern edge of the sprawling Rocky Flats nuclear weapons trigger plant near…