Focusing on how restorative justice applies to historical violations, including issues of intergenerational trauma and healing; historical responsibility; and communal narratives among ‘Settlers’ and its impacts on our relationships with our Indigenous neighbors.
by Elaine Enns and Ched Myers Sojourners, Aug 2010, 1 p. 1 page article in which Elaine and Ched reflect on the Golf Coast Oil Spill. Full Article: Galvanizing Will: What Restorative Justice means to Voiceless Victims SKU: E10-2-F
Jan 2010 Bartimaeus Institute On the week of the M.L. King holiday we held our 6th Institute. We had 21 full-time participants from six states and two countries, representing thirteen ecumenical traditions. It was a rich time of bible study, social analysis and storytelling, with the focus on our recent Ambassadors of Reconciliation books. See…
by Elaine Enns and Ched Myers: $21.00 (incl US shipping) Both volumes can be purchased for $33.00 (incl US shipping) Email us to PURCHASE This volume offers three social-analytic models and nine profiles of contemporary practitioners of restorative justice and peacemaking. Paper, 190 pp, Orbis Books.
by Ched Myers and Elaine Enns: $21.00 (incl US shipping) Both volumes can be purchased for $33.00 (incl US shipping) Email BCM to PURCHASE This volume offers four N.T. studies on restorative justice and peacemaking (2 Cor 5-6; Mark 1-3; Matt 18; and Ephesians). Paper, 192 pp, Orbis Books.
Feb 2008 Bartimaeus Institute A mid-winter opportunity for pastors, organizers and students for intensive study of scripture and social justice on the beautiful central California coast. Two 2008 Institutes will focus on lectionary texts for Year A, and will weave in reflections on the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination.
By Ched Myers Mennonite Conciliation Quarterly, Winter. 4 pp. Elaine: Ched and I met at a peacemaking conference in 1997 where both of us were speaking. We sat in on each other’s sessions, appreciated each other’s work and began an interesting dialogue concerning how best to mitigate violence in our society. What we discovered was…
By Ched Myers Talk given to the Episcopal Urban Caucus, spring 2002. Published by The Witness online. 12 pp. Not too far from where we sit today, hidden at the heart of post-modern Los Angeles, surrounded by gleaming skyscrapers built by and for Big Capital, lies the placita, once the center of the old Mexican…
By Ched Myers With Elaine Enns. In: Mediation and Facilitation Training Manual, 4th ed.(Mennonite Conciliation Services, Akron, PA). 3 pp. Matthew 18:15-17 is well known in some Christian settings as a text that summarizes a process for handling conflict within the church or between church members. These verses, however, are too often interpreted in isolation….