Region As Rabbi?
by Todd Wynward Ched Myers writes that the phrase “watershed discipleship” holds an intentional double meaning: both acting as a disciple during this watershed moment in history, as well as acting as a disciple within and on behalf of a specific watershed, as “citizen inhabitants of specific places.” Those are both certainly true. Yet I’d…
Watershed Discipleship–A Way Through?
Watershed discipleship? It’s an odd, almost jarring term, invoking and synthesizing two domains rarely joined in our imaginations: one scientific, the other religious.
Ecojustice Theology: Prophetic Protest over Deforestation, Biblical and Contemporary
A look at Isaiah, the ancient imperial assault on the cedars of Lebanon, and today’s forest martyrs. A case study in ecocide, ecojustice and the Bible.
Everything will Live Where the River Goes: A Bible Study on Water, God, and Redemption
by Ched Myers Sojourners, April 2012. Full Article: Everything will Live Where the River Goes: A Bible Study on Water, God, and Redemption SKU: L12-2-F
From Capital to Community: Discipleship as Defection in Jesus’ Parable about a ‘Manager of Injustice’ (Luke 16:1-13)
by Ched Myers This essay is part of Radical Christian Voices & Practice, an academic festschrift honoring our friend Dr. Christopher Rowland, a leading historian and theologian of radical Christian movements based in England. My essay looks at how Luke’s story of the so-called “unfaithful steward” is actually about someone who realizes he is caught in a socio-economic system…
Land Sunday
by Ched Myers In The Season of Creation: A Preaching Commentary. Ed. by N. Habel, D. Rhoads, H. Santmire. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, pp 83-99. Full Article: Land Sunday SKU: 11-3-Pb
Exodus Midrash in the Gospel
By Ched MyersWith Russell Powell. In Freedom Journeys: The Tale of Exodus and Wilderness Across Millennia. Ed. by A. Waskow and P. Berman, Philadelphia: Jewish Lights, pp. 203-210. Full Article: Exodus Midrash in the Gospel SKU: 11-1-Pa
Four Aspects of How Land is Perceived in the Bible
By Ched MyersAn excerpt from “Land Sunday,” in The Season of Creation: A Preaching Commentary. Ed. by N. Habel, D. Rhoads, H. Santmire (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2011), pp 83-99. 3pp. Most contemporary North Americans have been socialized to see and value the earthy terrain around them in terms of private possession, economic exploitation, and commodification….