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. 7 pp. Origin stories matter. They tell us who we are, how we got this way, and what our responsibilities are. They shape meaning and help…
by Ched Myers In Sojourners, 38:11, pp. 28ff. Reprinted in P. and S. Jung, Eds., Moral Issues & Christian responses (8th ed.). Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2012. Full Article:Â Pay Attention to the Birds: A Bible study on Luke 12, Ecology, and Economics SKU: L09-1-F
by Ched Myers Talk at Faith, Ecology & Economy Conference, Washington DC. 20 pp. In the Fall 2003 issue of Business Ethics a thoughtful opinion piece appeared by progressive journalist William Greider. In a preview of his book The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy, Greider wrote: Most Americans, I am convinced,…
by Ched Myers A Chapter in Earth and Word: Classic Sermons on Saving the Plante, edited by David Rhoads, Continuum, pp 211-223. 8 pp. IN MID-FEBRUARY OF 2005 a 73-year old nun was murdered by ranchers near Anapu, Brazil because of her attempts to halt the illegal logging of the rainforest. Dorothy Stang, a Notre…
By Ched Myers Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries E-News. 7 pp. I didn’t grow up in the church. When I came to faith at age 18 I had no experience with the Bible, and I remember my first connection with it. I was reading about Jesus’ feeding with the loaves and fishes, and was excited by the…
By Ched Myers Sojourners, March. 2004 5pp Origin stories matter. Our relationships with one another, God, and the Earth are deeply shaped by them. For most of human history on the planet, the various myths of beginnings told diverse stories of how God or the gods placed humans in a created world for vocational purposes….
By Ched Myers Entries in The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Edited by Bron Taylor. NY: Continuum. 9 pp. The Fall story of Genesis 1-11 is not only a theological text. It is also an etiological narrative (a story about origins) concerning the rise of civilization in the late Neolithic period. Since the mid-19th century…
By Ched Myers The Witness, April, 1995. 4 pp. When I reached Kaho’ olawe, I kissed the ground.Through my work with indigenous people throughout the Pacific, which had focused on their struggles for self-determination and particularly their struggles around issues of land and land rights, I’d developed a fairly keen sense of the pain that…