This is the second of a series of commentaries on Lukan Gospel readings that lie at the intersection of the Year C Revised Common Lectionary and texts I’ve explored in Healing Affluenza and Resisting Patriarchy: Luke’s Jesus and Sabbath Economics.
Myers brings a well-honed interpretive eye to a thematic study of Luke’s Gospel. He reads synoptically the crisis of socioeconomic disparity in Jesus’s world and ours, and proposes powerful analogies that can build social imagination and animate personal and political practices for systemic change and justice among communities of faith today.
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…
Our March 2018 podcast is the third of five studies in key “core samples” from Mark’s Gospel that will give you some context for studying, teaching and preaching Mark in Year B. Session 3 looks at: The Wilderness Feedings, Sabbath Economics & Eucharist (Mk 6). The full set of webinars is available for purchase here.
Our January 2018 podcast is the first of five studies in key “core samples” from Mark’s Gospel that will give you some context for studying, teaching and preaching Mark in Year B. This month Ched looks at the socio-economic setting of the narrative, working from Mark’s prologue (Mk 1:9-20), and relates it to contemporary discipleship…
By Ched Myers (BCM E-News, Sept 2005, revised Oct 2015) Over the last 15 years of our Sabbath Economics education at BCM we’ve had a few individuals we worked with decide to divest of considerable personal wealth. To most affluent Christians such acts would seem to represent unwise “extremism” that should be treated suspiciously. Similarly,…