Watershed Discipleship: What do I say Yes to?
Ched Myers talked with Dan Robinson of the Great Lakes Spirituality Project about Watershed Discipleship and “What do I say Yes to?” Published June 30, 2020
Bartcast 46: BKI2020 Wednesday Framing: Where did our People come to?
On the Wednesday morning of the 2020 Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: Unsettling Histories | Decolonizing Discipleship | hukišunuškuy, Elaine again set the scene for the day’s work by looking at the place where her ancestors came to and their complicity in the impacts on people of the not-vacant land, but a land under siege by government…
Bartcast 39: Extinction Rebellion? Climate Crisis, Luke 16 and Defecting from the Carbon Economy.
Ched and Elaine’s comments to The Loft at Westwood United Methodist Church in L.A. on Sept 22, 2019, days after the Climate Strike, using Jesus’ parable of the ‘Defective manager” as a foil.Image: Jan Luyken etching of the parable, Bowyer Bible.
Bartcast 38: Climate Crisis through the lens of Exodus Plagues – Ched talks with Jarrod McKenna
Ched recently spoke with Aussie friend of BCM Jarrod McKenna on his “Inverse” podcast. Ched covered the Exodus plagues narrative as a lens for viewing the current climate crisis. Jarrod’s original podcast is here: https://inverse.podiant.co/e/ched-myers-exodus-extinction-rebellion-climatestrike-37bd816d66b7c0/ Image: Joseph Mallord William Turner – The Fifth Plague of Egypt – Wikimedia Commons
Bartcast 36: When Kitsapawit Baptized Jesús in Matilija Creek
Elaine Enns and Ched Myers: “When Kitsapawit Baptized Jesús in Matilija Creek.” Recorded 2/18/19 at the Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: “Indigenous Justice and Christian Faith: Land, Law, Language.” A bible study experiment: a local recontextualization of Mark 1.
Watershed Snapshot | The Jordan River Watershed, Part 2
Above photo: Jordan River today, Christopher-Sprake / iStock / Getty My name is Jonathan. I am a Mennonite Christian Palestinian US American. My dual identities as a Palestinian, and as a white US American offer me insight to Christianity both as an indigenous wisdom tradition, and as a religion serving as a tool of global…
Watershed Snapshot | The Jordan River Watershed, Part 1
Above photo: Jonathan Brenneman and Sarah Thompson with their grandmothers on their wedding day in 2018. © Peter Ringenberg, 2018 by Jonathan Brenneman Guest Contributor My name is Jonathan. I am a Mennonite Christian Palestinian US American. My dual identities as a Palestinian and as a white US American offer me insight to Christianity both…
New Resource | Congregational Manuals on Watershed Discipleship
An exciting new resource is available for use in congregations and interfaith groups interested in caring for the environment: Rev. Dr. Nancy Wright and Richard Butz, MFA, have created a Congregational Watershed Discipleship Manual in partnership with Vermont Interfaith Power & Light and Voices of Water for Climate. They created two manuals: one with a…
Bartcast 30: Allyson Polman – Four Necessity Valve Turners
Allyson Polman is a farmer, Catholic Worker and a member of the Four Necessity Valve Turners group who recently undertook a protest action against a tar-sands oil pipeline in Minnesota. BCM friend Tim Nafziger talked with Allyson who was recently visiting the Ventura River Watershed.
Liberating Our Waters
by Lydia Wylie-Kellermann Guest Contributor One hot afternoon, my kids and I headed for Belle Isle, dressed in swim suits and looking for relief in the waters of the Detroit River. Cedar, who is now 2, immediately lay down at water’s edge, tummy in the water, and kept saying, “Thank you, water.” He said it…