Justice that Restores Lives: A Conversation with Murphy Davis

By Elaine Enns Conspire, Nov 2010, 4 pp. Elaine interviews Murphy Davis from The Open Door Community in Atlanta, GA describing her tireless work with homelessness and death row, and her searing analysis of the prison industrial complex. (See Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Vol II for Murphy’s complete story and other contemporary witnesses.) Full Article: Justice that…

Biblical Interpretation as Political Practice, II: Political Bodies Struggling for Inclusion into the Body Politic

by Ched Myers Part Two of an essay published in: Theology and the Crisis of Engagement: Essays in Honor of Lee Cormie, edited by J. Nowers and N. Medina (Eugene:Pickwick Publications, 2013). 11 pp. We live in a world in which the social architecture of functional segregation and inequality persists. Divisions of race, class and…

Ambassadors in Chains: Ephesians 2-3 and M.L. King’s Letter from Birmingham City Jail

by Ched Myers With Elaine Enns. The Bechtel Lectures, March 26, 2009, Conrad Grebel University College. Published in The Conrad Grebel Review (27:2) Fall, pp 4-27. 21 pp. One of the central questions that faces Anabaptist identity in every generation is: “What does it mean today to be a Peace Church?” In this year’s Bechtel…

It’s the End of the World as We Know It… Resistance and Discipleship: Reflections on Exodus 1-2 and Mark 14

by Ched Myers A talk given to the Kairos Canada Gathering, June, 2009. 14 pp. I commend the Kairos planning team for choosing such a bold theme. Apocalyptic imagination is the great step-child of western culture, especially since the Age of Reason colonized our minds and hearts. Apocalyptic literature’s wild, visionary, almost shamanistic symbolism is…

If a Bible Story Could Stop a Culture War: A Reflection on John 8, Proposition 8, and the Politics of Affirmation

by Ched Myers A sermon given at St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon, in March 2004. 6 pp. I suppose I could keep my sermon on this occasion short and to the point. As in: Congratulations. It’s about time. Now let’s get on with the work of living into what the moniker of “Affirming Ministry” really means…

Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Vol. II: Diverse Christian Practices of Restorative Justice and Peacemaking

Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Vol. II: Diverse Christian Practices of Restorative Justice and Peacemaking

by Elaine Enns and Ched Myers: $21.00 (incl US shipping) Both volumes can be purchased for $33.00 (incl US shipping) Email us to PURCHASE This volume offers three social-analytic models and nine profiles of contemporary practitioners of restorative justice and peacemaking. Paper, 190 pp, Orbis Books.