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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You Are Not Going to Heaven (and why it doesn’t matter)

Theology

“'God will take care of heaven,' writes Wes Bergen, 'our task is to take care of the earth.' I fully agree. Clear-eyed about the church's 'scars of our past and wounds of our present,' this book refocuses the Christian conversation concerning both our reading of the Bible and our work in the world. Bergen calls for discipleship commitment to world transformation and somatic wholeness to trump religious preoccupation with an otherworldly salvation of souls.”

You Shall Not Bow Down and Serve Them

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“A decade ago, sociologists Schiedel and Friesen concluded that in first-century imperial Rome, the top 1 percent’s share of the total wealth represented less than half of what America’s top 1 percent control today! Horsley’s new book calls biblical studies to address such inhumane disparity—both ancient and modern. . . . Horsley’s body of work, well reflected in these essays, is essential for academics and activists alike, and we are in his debt.”