Jennifer Henry is the Executive Director of Kairos Canada.  This reflection was given at “Keepers of the Water: A Vigil of Lament and Celebration,” on January 14th, 2015 (“The Feast of the Baptism of Jesus”; readings: Genesis 1:1-5 and Mark 1:1-11). In these last days we have told the story of how Christ came into…
Sean Devlin is a Vancouver-area climate justice activist who I have heard speak at a couple of events. His commitment to storytelling, and his analysis around race, poverty, responsibility and relationships has helped me deepen my own thinking and understanding. Sean is producer and director of this film where Filipin@ survivors of climate disaster speak…
by Ched Myers Published in the Conrad Grebel Review, Vol. 32, NO. 3 Fall 2014, pp 250-275. 26 pages. In this article Ched explores how our theology might be re-placed in light of the arrival of glocbal ecological crisis: Thomas Meton’s dictum, uttered under the shadow of an earlier, equally foreboding apocalyptic moment (the 1962…
Ched speaks about his life and conversion to “watershed discipleship” at Jesus Radicals conference in 2011: Part 1 Part 2
Lucas Land recently posted a video of a talk he gave on Watershed Discipleship: An Ethical/Theological Framework at Texas Lutheran University’s Krost Symposium on Environmental Justice on October 16, 2014. Watch the video here:
by Ched Myers Missio Dei: A Journal of Missional Theology and Praxis 5, no. 2 (August 2014) Published online at missiodeijournal.com Water lies at the center of our Christian sign of baptism and our current ecological crises and, thus, deserves deeper theological treatment. This paper explores visions of “redemption as rehydration” in the prophetic literature, then…
by Ched Myers Sojourners, May. 2014 5pp In the face of ecocide, the choice before us is stark: discipleship or denial. Our history is increasingly hostage to a deep and broad ecological crisis. Stalking us for centuries, it is now upon us in the interlocking catastrophes of climate destruction, habitat degradation, species extinction, and resource…