Ched Myers
Biography
Ched Myers wrote Healing Affluenza and Resisting Plutocracy, co-wrote Healing Haunted Histories with Elaine Enns, and co-edited Liberating Biblical Study with Laurel Dykstra.
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Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“I too have found it a challenge to recommend a short book that simply but clearly introduces a radical and compelling gospel faith. Luke Kammrath provides here an accessible companion to Mark's story of Jesus--which is still the best 'short catechism.' I appreciate Kammrath's FAQ-style approach, which anticipates a new reader's conundrums and offers key perspectives, yet refrains from the commentator's temptation to offer a parallel narrative about what the text means. In the age of Facebook, this is a great evangelistic resource.”
Arts & Literature
“In St. Louis for a baptism during the great flood of 1993 (both themes prominent in these poems), Berger looked through Saarinen’s Arch and saw all the way to the Farallon Islands. . . . This is ‘decolonizing poetry’: literate, theologically rich, and densely annotated.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This book is the fruit of years of organizing, advocacy and reflection concerning our deeply broken criminal justice system. Magnani and Wray offer a truly radical analysis that penetrates to the roots of the crisis, challenges long-held assumptions, and imagines thoughtful alternatives. It is the finest critique of the prison-industrial complex available.”
History & Biography
“In this homage to, and multifaceted portrait of, his beloved friend and mentor, Wylie-Kellermann exhumes old correspondence, excavates forgotten files and re-members community mementos from a movement that spiritually and politically birthed him (and me, and so many others). This is a kind of family scrapbook, rich with loving marginal notes (Bill's and others), dog-eared clippings, and poignant snapshots of a consequential life. Through his vintage poetic prose, Wylie-Kellermann offers a treasure trove of sacred story, testimony, and memory to all who were midwifed to gospel faith by Dan Berrigan--and to our spiritual progeny.”
Concern for Church Polity and Discipline
Church Leadership & Ministry
“We are indebted to Roberts for her invaluable (and considerable!) labor exhuming, contextualizing, re-presenting, and thus preserving the distinctively Anabaptist Concern pamphlet series, published during the height of the Cold War. These volumes provide snapshots of a then-rising generation of North American Mennonite thinkers ‘workshopping’ important theological, ethical, and ecclesial issues amidst their fraught social and historical moment. An enlightening resource for all of us attempting similar discernment of our own calamitous epoch.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“The issue of immigrant rights, like that of economic justice, requires little translation between the Bible and our time. Vulnerable people who are pushed and pulled by the tidal forces of powerful empires are central subjects of both Testaments. Fogg’s work is an engaging addition to the literature that reads Word and world with attention to the displaced and dispossessed who are forced to cross borders.”
Following Jesus in Invaded Space
Theology
“I've puzzled about why there has been such a relatively sparse body of contextual and 'place-based' theology emerging from white Australia. Perhaps what has been lacking is the appropriate approach to the Australian landscape. I believe that Chris Budden's theology of 'Second Peoples' provides that approach. This book opens up a project that will hopefully animate a fresh, vigorous, and distinctively Australian theological conversation, especially between First and Second Peoples. But Budden's work is relevant to all of us who dwell on lands that have been invaded and occupied, and who are struggling to understand how to live the Christian tradition as inheritors of a legacy of conquest and continuing racism. This is an important contribution to imagining our future as a post-Constantinian church.”
From Disposable Culture to Disposable People
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This compelling study connects crucial dots between theology and biochemistry, our waste-stream and bloodstream, and the economics of disposability and the anthropology of instrumentality. It shows how plastics mirror both our technological ingenuity and our dysfunctional, addictive, and ecocidal disingenuousness. Adkins argues that the antidote is to rebuild a culture of relationship—beginning with our own trash. I commend this essay for study groups, because the personal and political problem of plastics touches each of us and is determining our collective fate.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“I welcome the reissue of this theological critique, written during the first flush of post-Cold War capitalist triumphalism in the early 1990s. These essays remain relevant for a new generation of faith communities awakening to the challenge of social and economic justice.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In these twelve compelling meditations, Daley-Harris gives us a glimpse of the faith and conscience that animates the tireless and strategic work of the Children’s Defense Fund. She has deftly woven together poignant scriptural texts, inspirational stories from Movement history, and reality-checking reports about the current health and welfare of the `least’ among us. May these elegant reflections and focalizing discussion questions fire your imagination about how to become a better `torch bearer and torch sharer’ with the Children’s Defense Fund in the holy work of justice and compassion.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“For decades Ken has been one of our most passionate faith-rooted organizers for peace and justice. Unlike many, however, his vision and competence extend to the aesthetic and poetic. This volume should be employed alongside prayer books and hymnals, whether our work is in the seminary, the sanctuary, and/or the streets!”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“In crafting these thoughtful and elegant psalms, prayers, and poems, Ken Sehested draws on two deep wells. One is Scripture, the blade and balm of which he restores through creative midrash, paraphrase, and reimagination. The other is his own long history of faithful engagement--as activist in the world, and pastor in the church--which has shaped these lines like wind and water. We use Ken's work regularly for household prayers, community liturgies, and public protests, and commend it as reliable accompaniment to the rhythms of life and faith.”
Theology
“In the last quarter century, the theology and ethics of retributive justice have come under long-overdue critical scrutiny. Practical experiments in peacemaking and restorative justice are challenging conventional wisdom, animating social imagination, and inspiring radical revisions of traditional atonement soteriology. Ted Grimsrud--one of our most reliable first-world theologians--provides the most concise, readable, and compelling summary to date of the biblical case for the 'turn to restorative justice.' This book will help empower a revolutionary reclamation of a healing Christian faith for our violent times.”
Ivan the Fool and Three Shorter Tales for Living Peaceably
Fiction
“If Russia at feudalism’s dusk had heeded these pointed folktales from her literary son, she might not have had to endure so many impish terrors, from Stalin to Putin. Yet Tolstoy’s parables are just as relevant to toxic American militarism and plutocracy right now.”
Preaching & Worship
“"I share with my friend and elder Z Holler two deep convictions: that the gospels call us to radical discipleship, and that the Beloved Community Center of Greensboro is truly carrying on the work and witness of Martin Luther King. Z's journey of following Jesus and standing in solidarity with the BCC is remarkable for a white southern preacher of his generation, reminiscent of Clarence Jordan and Will Campbell. His memoir and sermons testify to the wound of racism, and to how gospel faith changes personal and political geographies.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In 1963 Dr. King wrote that it was "necessary to X-ray our history and reveal the full extent of the disease" of racism. Greg Jarrell's brilliant study does just that, demonstrating the revelatory power of rereading the past and present of one's place through lenses of haunted land, race and class genealogies, and traditions of resilience. Having been apprenticed for two decades to one Charlotte neighborhood, Jarrell exhumes stories of struggle against structural racism and poverty entombed beneath parking lots and sanctuaries. He follows white and Black families (and churches) "like ghosts" through epochs of betrayal: from Reconstruction to "Urban Renewal" to contemporary gentrification. The narrative particularities of this book are deeply engaging, laced with (literally) penetrating and achingly honest vignettes of place, people, and spirits. Yet the strategies of development, displacement, and disparity it traces were reproduced in every major American city over the last century, including where I grew up a continent away. I cannot commend more highly the challenging sociological and biblical reflections herein, which take urban theology deeper and offer a personal and political map for how white churches might yet turn to a vocation of penance and restorative justice.”
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