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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Fiction
“In this historical novel, Hollyday, a veteran curator of women’s stories of faith, brings alive the remarkable (and too-long obscured) medieval Beguine movement. She weaves together feudal social disparities, Abrahamic traditions, ecclesial machinations, and doses of magical realism into a fabric of adventure that gallops across Europe to Sinai and back. Retelling the gospel story in a feminist key, Pillar of Fire is a compelling mirror for our own times and consciences.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This long-awaited collection shows why Bill Wylie- Kellermann has for decades been our most determined and faithful bearer of a North American tradition that engages with and critically reflects upon the powers. These essays introduce this tradition’s progenitors, exegete its biblical grounding, and map how it has been variously embodied over the last half century, from William Stringfellow to Charity Hicks. Wylie-Kellermann is our best guide to this stream of theological and political literacy, which in turn best helps us navigate both the Word and our world, never moreso than now.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Lohrmann’s argument—equal parts constructive thought experiment and exercise in theological and political imagination—will be redemptively jarring to those enamored or paralyzed by the toxic plutocratic autocracy taking control of the U.S. body politic. Through key queries and a principled strategy, this book interrogates the central contradiction of our republic: the fusion of power between wealth and legislative representation. Ptoxocracy is a radically dissonant vision rooted in the gospel—I share his hope that churches might experiment as demonstration projects of this way whose time has come again.”
Pursuing the Spiritual Roots of Protest
History & Biography
“Three powerful faith traditions . . . converged for the first time at that legendary 1964 retreat hosted by Merton. . . . Any of us who seek today to bear public witness to the gospel, justice, and political imagination are truly 'children' of that conversation a half century ago. . . . We are walking in their footsteps. Oyer has gifted us with a magnificent chronicle of the contemporary spiritual roots of protest.”
Resurrection Peacemaking: Plowsharing the Tools of War
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“When we met Cliff Kindy and family at their Joyfield Farm during a Christian Peacemaker Team Congress in 1998, they already embodied an exemplary personal and political discipleship of nonviolence. This now revered elder peacemaker chronicles how CPT experiments around the world are opening paths that can liberate us from our captivity to militarism. Both harrowing and inspiring, Kindy’s stories and analysis invite us into, and instruct us in, that crucial work.”
History & Biography
“A veteran clergy-activist, Stuart Taylor engages personally and politically in a ‘deep mapping of the multi-layered landscape’ of Scots-Irish Presbyterians in the South and beyond. His compelling family, regional and national storytelling offers a critical alternative to memoir- and genealogical-industrial complexes that perpetuate American mythology. More than a good read, Taylor’s commitments to decolonizing discipleship and anti-racist historiography offers inspiration and models how readers might do similar work on their own landlines, bloodlines and songlines.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“In 1918 Karl Barth published his commentary on Romans, which ignited a profound theological turn. A century later, Keesmaat and Walsh write into the headwinds of Trumpism, deepening social disparity, ecological crisis, and endless war. Building on recent scholarship, this brilliant study engages the original audience, who labored under the shadow of empire, in a way that brings its message to life for similarly struggling North American Christians. The authors employ a robust imagination, an interlocutor, and keen historical literacy to free Romans from its captivity to dogmatic and pietistic interpretations, restoring it to its social context (with all its disturbing parallels to our own). The result is a fresh and committed reading by two of our generation’s best interpreters of Word and world. May it, too, inspire a turning!”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Johnson offers an accessible roadmap and focalizing handbook for how (and why) mainstream churches can prioritize the gospel over the dominant economic story, and find new life amid hard times through personal and institutional practices of economic solidarity and justice.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“The late Robert McAfee Brown used to worry about how we North American Christians, with our vantage point from 'within Pharaoh's household,' might legitimately respond to Third World liberation theology's appropriation of the Exodus story. Now from the heart of the Catholic Worker movement comes just such a reading, and it is fresh, literate, and deeply engaged. A sophisticated and compelling project.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In this book, Delgado offers a truly incarnational theology from the heart of her social location, clearly discerning the 'signs of our times'––environmental devastation, economic domination, and violence––while reminding us of the power of biblical hope. This is a handbook for the next generation of grassroots social-change activists.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This study of John's story of Jesus exhibits remarkable brevity and depth, passion and thoughtfulness. The often perplexing Fourth Gospel comes alive, both in its context and ours. Newton lives and works at the contested-but-fertile intersection between seminary, sanctuary, and streets. I commend Subversive Wisdom to each sphere!”
The Cross in the Midst of Creation
Theology
“Delgado's literate and readable study... offers a contextual, liberationist, and intersectional approach that restores the cross to the center of the Christian story--and the church's engagement in peacemaking, racial-social equity, and reparative justice work today.”
The Drama of a Rural Community’s Life Cycle
History & Biography
“Pastor Kaufman maps his place and people compassionately and critically, exploring what in our work we call ‘landlines, bloodlines, and songlines.’ Kaufman’s fulsome portrait of a particular historic legacy of ‘Anabaptist agrarianism’ offers lessons for contemporary resistance to ‘imperial monoculture.’”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“An elegant treatise. Johnson's approach defies disciplinary apartheid, weaving a rich tapestry of theological and ethical reflection on faith and economics. Her historical exegesis of churchly stewardship discourse alone is worth the freight. And her commendation of Francis's economic unilateral disarmament' is welcome wisdom in our increasingly hard-hearted 'agonistic marketplace.'”
To Hear the Word - Second Edition
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Yoder's biblical exposition, perhaps more than his work in either ethics or history, inspired a whole generation to re-engage 'Word and World.' I, like so many others, am grateful and indebted. This volume gives us unique insights into Yoder's integral approach to reading scripture, which remains instructive, compelling and fruitful.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This book is a well-crafted overview of the history, ideology, and legacy of settler colonialism's 'logic of elimination,' which clarifies how, as Dr. King put it, 'our nation was born in genocide.' Historian and biblical theologian L. Daniel Hawk grounds each chapter in the regional lore of his home place, interrogates devised and dismembered public narratives, and concludes with suggestions for, and a call to, decolonizing discipleship. A highly recommended primer that meets this moment!”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“This young Latinx pastor brings the voice of a new American apostolate—with a sober eye on the legacy of the church and a heart for its future. He begins with a searing yet empathetic eulogy for a dying ‘Method of Church,’ then walks us through a labyrinth of decline and denial toward an expectancy of resurrection. A hip-hop poet exploring fraught terrain through language and metaphors both playful and poignant, Miller-Villegas serves the tradition he loves as hospice chaplain and midwife.”
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