A Meditation on Watersheds | by Leslie R. Kryder

A Meditation on Watersheds | by Leslie R. Kryder

ByWD Editors

Leslie Kryder of Albuquerque NM (Rio Grande watershed) recently coordinated a group to work through the Bartimaeus Institute Online (BIO) classes, offered by BCM. The fifth class in the series is BIO-B01 Watershed Discipleship, and as a final class project, Leslie has undertaken “A Meditation on Watersheds” — a contemplation of her “place” and part of her journey of coming into her watershed.

Of Watersheds and Sub-Watersheds: How local is local?

A group from AMC recently completed the Bartimaeus Institute Online courses, the last of which was titled, “Watershed Discipleship.” In it, we were encouraged to identify with “place” as a way of coming to really know and love where we live. The local watershed was recommended as the area of interest.

Big Elkin Creek: Watershed Discipleship in Action

Big Elkin Creek: Watershed Discipleship in Action

ByWD Editors

One way to practice watershed discipleship is to work on waterway restoration projects, such as the project in this video, depicting a restoration project along Big Elkin Creek in North Carolina. Rev. Stuart Taylor, retired minister of Elkin Presbyterian Church, has been integrally involved in this project. He has helped communicate and mediate between members…

A Watershed Discipleship of Decolonization

A Watershed Discipleship of Decolonization

ByElaine Enns and Ched Myers

June 6th, 2021.Speaking to Westwood Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, Elaine Enns and Ched Myers wove together BCM’s two most recent book projects—Watershed Discipleship (2016) and Healing Haunted Histories (2021)—showing how the latter integrates the ecological paradigm shifts of the former into Indigenous justice.

Nature Against Empire: Exodus Plagues, Climate Crisis and Hard Heartedness

ByChed Myers

by Ched Myers Direction V49 no.1 (2020) The realities of climate chaos hit me personally and hard in December 2017 with the Thomas Fire. California’s largest wildfire to that date, scorching 80 percent of our Ventura River watershed, it was an apocalyptic unveiling, the kind shared by survivors of hurricanes the same year in Houston…

Unsettling the Word

ByBCM Online

Those in the watershed discipleship community will be interested in a recent book called Unsettling the Word: Biblical Experiments in Decolonization (Mennonite Church Canada, 2018), edited by Steve Heinrichs and illustrated by Jonathan Dyck. With 69 short entries by an excellent list of contributors, this book helps us grapple with ways the Christian tradition has…

Watershed Snapshot | The Jordan River Watershed, Part 2

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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

ByWD Editors

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

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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…