by Ched Myers Published in Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries E-News. 5 pp Pacific Life Community’s work of protest focuses on the human impact of Vandenburg Air Force Base (VAFB). I wish to locate this conversation in specific time and space, in order to call attention to the fact that the primal victims of the work done…
by Ched Myers Published by JustFaith Ministries’ Engaging Spiritualities “Bearings” Project. 6 pp. I want to begin with a story about my own call to incarnational discipleship. In 1976, I was a junior at the University of California at Berkeley. At 21, I was already disillusioned with both politics and religion. I was a new…
by Ched Myers Published online at http://www.wordandworld.org. 6 pp. I begin with an old story. There was a Levite from a village far away in the hill country of Ephraim who was traveling through Judah returning home. He and his party were near Jerusalem and it was getting late, and his companions said, “Let us…
by Ched Myers Published online at http://www.wordandworld.org. 8 pp. Four decades ago Martin Luther King delivered his “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence” speech at Riverside Church in New York City. Not only was this his most consequentialaddress (King was assassinated exactly one year later); I believe it represents the most significant public…
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 A chapter in: Mark, Gospel of Action: Personal and Community Responses, edited by John Vincent, London:SPCK. 12 pp. Nearly two years after U.S. President George W. Bush declared the second war with Iraq officially over, British and American soldiers remain mired in an increasing violent and controversial occupation of that country. As…
By Ched Myers Sojourners. 4 pp. There have always been two Americas: that of rich and poor, of inclusion and exclusion. The America of inclusion found expression in the ideal of “liberty and justice for all,” and has been embodied whenever Indian treaties were honored, and in the embrace of civil rights, women’s suffrage, or…
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 Chapter in Consuming Passion: Why the Killing of Jesus Really Matters. Edited by Simon Barow and J. Bartley, London: Darton, Longman and Todd, pp. 61-73. 7 pp. The most concise thing I can say about my reaction to Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ is: I loved the book,but hated the…
By Ched Myers Bible in TransMission (U.K.). (Note: A short version of “The Radical Nonviolent Witness of Jesus, May 2009). 9 pp. Rev. James W. Lawson, a retired Methodist minister in his 80s now, has been a major figure in faith-based activism in the U.S. One of Martin Luther King Jr.’s closest colleagues in the…