We invite you, in these hard days, to step away for a long weekend of replenishment through bible study, workshops, art, song, worship, ritual, campfires, imagining of new worlds, and the flowering beauty of the Pocono mountains in the spring.
HARP Zoom Forum: In case you missed this announcement last week, as we begin Ordinary Time with its unbroken string of Sunday Lukan gospel readings, it’s a good time for a summer and/or fall study group or preaching series!  To help resource such, I will convene a twice-monthly zoom forum, beginning on Wed July 2,…
Leslie Kryder of Albuquerque NM (Rio Grande watershed) recently coordinated a group to work through the Bartimaeus Institute Online (BIO) classes, offered by BCM. The fifth class in the series is BIO-B01 Watershed Discipleship, and as a final class project, Leslie has undertaken “A Meditation on Watersheds” — a contemplation of her “place” and part of her journey of coming into her watershed.
Of Watersheds and Sub-Watersheds: How local is local?
A group from AMC recently completed the Bartimaeus Institute Online courses, the last of which was titled, “Watershed Discipleship.” In it, we were encouraged to identify with “place” as a way of coming to really know and love where we live. The local watershed was recommended as the area of interest.
One way to practice watershed discipleship is to work on waterway restoration projects, such as the project in this video, depicting a restoration project along Big Elkin Creek in North Carolina. Rev. Stuart Taylor, retired minister of Elkin Presbyterian Church, has been integrally involved in this project. He has helped communicate and mediate between members…
In November 2020 Ched gave this brief (9 min) reflection for the Graduate Theological Union’s Alumni in Conversation series, explaining concisely why BCM uses the rubric “discipleship at the intersection of seminary, sanctuary, streets and soil,” and what it means for our personal and political spiritual formation and activism.
June 6th, 2021.Speaking to Westwood Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, Elaine Enns and Ched Myers wove together BCM’s two most recent book projects—Watershed Discipleship (2016) and Healing Haunted Histories (2021)—showing how the latter integrates the ecological paradigm shifts of the former into Indigenous justice.
Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries co-founders Elaine Enns and Ched Myers join Shane Claiborne & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove to talk about watershed discipleship, the challenge of settler colonialism, and their new book, Healing Haunted Histories – for the June Morning Prayer for Red Letter Christians and the School for Conversion.
In 2020 Ched gave this devotional for the Nomad Podcast in the UK (www.nomadpodcast.co.uk). In this devotion, Ched takes us on a journey down the Ventura river, where he lives in California, and goes on to open up the radical political imagination of the many biblical visions of rivers, in a world where colonization and…
See suggested Lenten resources that can help you draw deeper into watershed discipleship this season.
by Ched Myers Direction V49 no.1 (2020) The realities of climate chaos hit me personally and hard in December 2017 with the Thomas Fire. California’s largest wildfire to that date, scorching 80 percent of our Ventura River watershed, it was an apocalyptic unveiling, the kind shared by survivors of hurricanes the same year in Houston…