Regular Podcasts from Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries. interviews, teaching, sermons and more from Ched Myers and Elaine Enns.
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Hosted by Grace Nosek, Planet Potluck combines personal storytelling and interviews to explore stories of hope, joy, and community in the climate movement. After telling her own story of finding joy and fulfillment in climate work after personal tragedy, Grace interviews the friends she’s made through her years as a climate activist—students, professors, organizers, lawyers, activists on the front lines, engineers, and more. What emerges is an intimate look at the grief and joy of leaning in ...
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No American pastor has had greater length and depth of commitment to Palestinian justice than Rev. Donald Wagner of Chicago. His latest book is Glory to God in the Lowest: Journeys to an Unholy Land (2022). In late January 2024, Don and our mutual longtime colleague Rev. Darrel Meyers of Los Angeles paid us a visit here in Oak View. We took the opp…
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On Memorial Day 2022, Elaine & Ched interviewed Rose Berger, Senior Editor at Sojourners Magazine and veteran Catholic peace and justice activist. Rose was 48 hours back from a week-long international, interreligious Peace Delegation to Ukraine—the first such group to visit Kyiv since the Russian invasion began on Feb 24, 2022. The religious leader…
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Bartcast 58, recorded Feb 14 2021, is another presentation from last year’s BKI: “ACTIVISTS OF COLOR AND INDIGENOUS SOLIDARITY” is a wide-ranging panel conversation between Rev. Sue Park Hur (left), Dr. Jimi Valiente-Neighbours (second from left), and Linda QuiQuivix (second from right) and Jeannette Ban (right)—all activist-educators and dear frie…
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Bartcast 57: Alison McCrary - "Incarnational Engagement with Restorative Solidarity: Contemplative Activism, Community Justice Work, and Holy Resistance in and between Red, Black, and Brown Communities ...
Recorded live at the 2021 Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute, Sat Feb 13, 2021.Alison McCrary is a tribal citizen of the Ani-Yun-Wiya United Cherokee Nation, a social justice movement lawyer, Catholic activist, restorative justice practitioner and an internationally sought-after speaker on social justice, spirituality and liberation.Alison currently serv…
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Recorded July 15, 2021. Elaine and Ched offer a Bible study from Healing Haunted Histories (which is part of CLBSJ’s imprint at Wipf & Stock). Our comments are followed by a response from Maria De Freece Lawrence (Lenape) and Gretchen Thies Brokaw (Shinnecock), founding members of the Sweetwater Cultural Center, and a conversation about this indige…
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Planet Potluck Episode 7: Restorying the Climate Crisis with Grace Nosek (Guest Episode)
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Lawyer, climate storyteller, and founder of the UBC Climate Hub, Grace Nosek, joins host Am Johal on a mission — to publicly uncover feelings of ‘climate doom’ and ‘individual responsibility’ as narratives dispelled by the fossil fuel industry. While leading this charge, Grace speaks about Exxon Mobil at the forefront of climate science — spinning …
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Bartcast 55: A River of History and Change
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In November 2020 Ched gave this brief (9 min) reflection for the Graduate Theological Union's Alumni in Conversation series, explaining concisely why BCM uses the rubric “discipleship at the intersection of seminary, sanctuary, streets and soil,” and what it means for our personal and political spiritual formation and activism.…
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Bartcast 54: Ched reflects on the theology and ecology of rivers
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In 2020 Ched gave this devotional for the Nomad Podcast in the UK (www.nomadpodcast.co.uk). In this devotion, Ched takes us on a journey down the Ventura river, where he lives in California, and goes on to open up the radical political imagination of the many biblical visions of rivers, in a world where colonization and empire habitually steal wate…
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Bartcast 53: Healing Haunted Histories - Anabaptist Witness Dialogues Jan 2021
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Elaine and Ched were interviewed in mid-January 2021 by Jamie Pitts, editor of the Anabaptist Witness journal, about Healing Haunted Histories. They discuss the background and motivations for this project, the evocative title, and major themes addressed in the volume.Av Elaine Enns, Ched Myers
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Bartcast 52: Memorial for Murphy Davis
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This Bartcast is a 20 minute section of the memorial to Murphy Davis in early November. It features Ched and Elaine’s reflection on Murphy’s vocation as a “Charon” figure, who traversed back and forth across the Great River over 25 years, teaching us about life and death. The recording ends with a beautiful song by Robin and Linda Williams. We enco…
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Bartcast 51: Ched's family story - All Saints 2020
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In honor of the All Saints triduum, Bartcast #51 features Ched’s reflections on his father, who passed away almost 30 years ago. He reads from a piece originally published in the mid-90s titled “Pulpo en su Tinta”; you can find it in the Appendix to his book Our God is Undocumented (https://www.bcm-net.org/resources/books). (20 min).We encourage yo…
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Bartcast 50: Mauricio Tafur Salgado
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Mauricio and Ched got together in August 2020 for a CLBSJ Scholar-Activist Encounter and discussed their work to create capacity for movement-building through arts, documentation and scholarship, and the way this work has shaped and been shaped by their faith.Mauricio is a BCM friend and Partner, former intern and is currently an Assistant Arts Pro…
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Bartcast 49: Mark Pestak - Jeremiah Ch. 19 and 21
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Occasionally we feature guest voices on our Bartcast. We are pleased to introduce you to Mark Pestak from Cleveland. Mark is a longtime participant in Bible study at the Catholic Worker there, which along with the Los Angeles house, is exemplary in the Catholic Worker movement for its devotion to scripture study. This is a community Ched has visite…
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Bartcast 48: Harry and Germaine Lafond
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On Summer Solstice 2020 Elaine & Ched led an online liturgy for our local Farm Church. As it was also Father’s Day and Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada, we had a conversation with our friends and colleagues Harry and Germaine Lafond from the Muskeg Cree First Nation in Saskatchewan. The Lafonds talked about the importance of the Sundance among Plai…
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Bartcast 47: BKI2020 Thursday Bible Study: Seven more demons came back
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On the Thursday morning of the BKI2020, Ched looked 'haunting' as it relates secrecy, lies and 'myths of innocence' plaguing our settler histories, and compares this to Jesus' diagnosis of, and unmasking of 'unclean spirits', both political (Mark 5) and personal (Mark 9). He looks further at Luke 11 (v24-26) and the twin healing stories in Mark (8:…
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Bartcast 46: BKI2020 Wednesday Framing: Where did our People come to?
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On the Wednesday morning of the 2020 Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: Unsettling Histories | Decolonizing Discipleship | hukišunuškuy, Elaine again set the scene for the day's work by looking at the place where her ancestors came to and their complicity in the impacts on people of the not-vacant land, but a land under siege by government programs to d…
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Bartcast 45: BKI2020 Tuesday Framing: Where did our People from and how?
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On the Tuesday morning of the 2020 Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: Unsettling Histories | Decolonizing Discipleship | hukišunuškuy, the day's work was framed by Elaine as she told of her family's history, their former home places and the circumstances of their leaving Europe.Av Elaine Enns
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Bartcast 44: BKI2020 Tuesday Bible Study - Naboth's nahala
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On the Tuesday morning of the 2020 Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: Unsettling Histories | Decolonizing Discipleship | hukišunuškuy, Ched looked at 1 Kings 21 and Naboth's nahala.Av Ched Myers
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Bartcast 43: BKI2020 Opening Night Introduction to Theme
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On the opening night of the 2020 Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: Unsettling Histories | Decolonizing Discipleship | hukišunuškuy, Elaine and Ched set the scene with the presentation "The Nightmares of Sleeping Dogs"Av Ched Myers & Elaine Enns
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Bartcast 42: June Lorenzo - International Human Rights Instruments to Advance the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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Bartcast 41: Journey into Restorative Justice with Elaine Enns
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Bartcast 40: Liz McAlister - Mentor and “mother of the movement” for peace and justice
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In June, 2013, Ched and Elaine interviewed Liz McAlister, a mentor and “mother of the movement” for peace and justice, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Jonah House, the Christian peacemaking community in Baltimore, MD Liz cofounded. This podcast is in honor of her 80th birthday, and in solidarity as she is awaiting sentencing as one of th…
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Bartcast 39: Extinction Rebellion? Climate Crisis, Luke 16 and Defecting from the Carbon Economy.
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Ched and Elaine’s comments to The Loft at Westwood United Methodist Church in L.A. on Sept 22, 2019, days after the Climate Strike, using Jesus’ parable of the ‘Defect-ive manager” as a foil.Image: Jan Luyken etching of the parable, Bowyer Bible.Av Ched Myers & Elaine Enns
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Barcast 38: Climate Crisis through the lens of Exodus Plagues - Ched talks with Jarrod McKenna
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Ched recently spoke with Aussie friend of BCM Jarrod McKenna on his "Inverse" podcast. Ched covered the Exodus plagues narrative as a lens for viewing the current climate crisis. Jarrod's original podcast is here: https://inverse.podiant.co/e/ched-myers-exodus-extinction-rebellion-climatestrike-37bd816d66b7c0/ Image: Joseph Mallord William Turner -…
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Bartcast 37: Christian Mission Disrobed: The Road Not Taken (Luke 9:1-6).
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Recorded 2/18/19 at the Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: “Indigenous Justice and Christian Faith: Land, Law, Language.” How western missions betrayed the clear instructions of Jesus, and how a commitment to hospitality received and given can change that longstanding colonizing pattern.Av Ched Myers
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Planet Potluck Episode 6: Nina and Uma
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Grace chats with Nina and Uma, teen climate activists in Vancouver, British Columbia, about speaking at City Hall, centering justice and intersectionality in the climate movement, and discovering the courage to speak up. They talk about how the movement has been a space to grow and connect outside of typical social constraints.…
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Bartcast 36: When Kitsapawit Baptized Jesús in Matilija Creek
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Elaine Enns and Ched Myers: “When Kitsapawit Baptized Jesús in Matilija Creek.” Recorded 2/18/19 at the Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: “Indigenous Justice and Christian Faith: Land, Law, Language.” A bible study experiment: a local recontextualization of Mark 1.Av Ched Myers & Elaine Enns
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Bartcast 35: Ched Myers on conflict in Mark 12
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Pastor Joe Manafo at Lakeview Church in Saskatoon, SK interviews Ched on April 28, 2019. He looks at 3 of the conflict stories in Mark 12, part of that church’s series on Mark's gospel and politics.Av Ched Myers
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Bartcast 34: Elaine Enns interviewed on the Sacred Space Interior Website
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Sherri Nozik of Sacred Space Interior Website (www.sacredspaceinterior.com) interviews Elaine Enns about restorative justice, the impact of intergenerational trauma on Settler communities and how Settlers can address our own privilege and brokenness in order to work for justice. Thanks to Sherri for sharing the interview with us.…
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Bartcast 33: Indigenous Justice and Christian Faith: Land, Law, Language.
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“Introduction to the 2019BKI Theme.” Recorded 2/18/19 at the Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: “Indigenous Justice and Christian Faith: Land, Law, Language.”Av Ched Myers & Elaine Enns
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Bartcast 32: Jim Bear Jacobs (Mohecan): “Hurt, Cry, Grow.”
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Recorded 2/21/19 at the Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: “Indigenous Justice and Christian Faith: Land, Law, Language.” Rev. Jacobs’ plenary talked about how Native cultures offer medicine to sick White folk, and how Genesis 2 articulates an Indigenous perspective in asserting that God midwifed people born from Earth Mother.…
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Bartcast 30: Allyson Polman - Four Necessity Vavle Turners
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Allyson Polman is a farmer, Catholic Worker and a member of the Four Necessity Valve Turners group who recently undertook a protest action against a tar-sands oil pipeline in Minnesota. BCM friend Tim Nafziger talked with Allyson who was recently visiting the Ventura River Watershed.Av Tim Nafziger and Allyson Polman
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Bartcast 31: Jimiliz Valiente-Neighbours Women in Ministry
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Dr Jimiliz Valiente-Neighbours, sociology prof at Pt. Loma Nazarene Univ., gave a sermon in March 2019 at PLNU chapel on the Magnificat during a series on Women and Ministry. This is an excellent 10 minute synopsis of global feminist liberation theology - and thanks to Jimi for sharing her presentation with BCM!…
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Bartcast 29: Randy Woodley (Keetoowah Cherokee): “Introduction to America.”
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Recorded 2/19/19 at the Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: “Indigenous Justice and Christian Faith: Land, Law, Language.” Dr. Woodley’s plenary talk provided a foundation for the Institute’s week of exposure and discussion surrounding North America’s Indigenous peoples.Av Dr Randy Woodley
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Bartcast 28: Jonathan Cordero (Chumash/Ohlone): “CA History 101.”
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Recorded 2/20/19 at the Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: “Indigenous Justice and Christian Faith: Land, Law, Language.” Dr. Cordero’s plenary talk gave an overview of the tragic history of missionized California Indians and how it adversely affects the lives of unrecognized California natives today.Av Jonathan Cordero
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Planet Potluck Episode 5: Kate Higham
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Grace chats with Kate Higham, the inaugural Coordinator of the University of British Columbia Climate Hub and a longtime human rights advocate, about the vital connection between human rights and climate change, how corporations might be held legally accountable for harms arising from climate change, and what strategies the Climate Hub has used to …
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Planet Potluck Episode 4: Kelsey Skaggs
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Grace chats with Kelsey Skaggs, lawyer and Executive Director of the Climate DefenseProject, about suing Harvard for its failure to divest from fossil fuels while still a lawstudent and the growing momentum around the climate necessity defense. They talkabout the decades-long campaign by members of the fossil fuel industry and their allies tounderm…
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In this excerpt from our final BCM webinar in 2017: The Columbus Quincentenary as Turning Point in the Decolonization Struggle: A visit with Dr. Randy Woodley (chedmyers.org/2017/09/14/091217recordedwebinarsept2017/) - Ched and Elaine talk with Dr Randy Woodley about just a little of his work and life. This is a great preview to the 2019 Bartimaeus…
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Passing through Oak View in late November 2018, Undertaking a sabbatical journey at a transition point in his life, Joshua Grace stopped by Oak View for a quiet chat with Elaine and Ched. Joshua's CV is too long to list her, but he is a long time friend of BCM, and a key member of the AMARDON team who puts on our Bartimaeus Institutes (bringing his…
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Planet Potluck Episode 3: Lindsay Borrows
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Grace chats with Lindsay Borrows, lawyer, author, and linguist. Lindsay is a member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. Her love for the land, water and story-telling inspire her to explore law as a way to strengthen relationships between humans and non-humans in the spaces we call home. Lindsay talks about her new book, Otter’s Journey throug…
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Planet Potluck Episode 2: Jacqueline Lee-Tam
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Grace chats with Jacqueline Lee-Tam, a climate justice organizer and university student, about her collaboration on a national youth campaign to condemn the Canadian government’s decision to purchase the Trans Mountain pipeline. Jacqueline speaks about how she begun engaging with the climate movement in high school, how she has found community in t…
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Bartcast 25: Interview with Elaine and Ched at Myers Park Baptist Church, Charlotte, NC
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Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC, recently hosted Elaine and Ched. Listen in as pastors Ben and Chrissy talk with them about their personal and political journeys of faith (individually and together) and how they found themselves as activist-teacher-scholars dedicating their lives to the critical re-connection of sanctuary, seminar, stree…
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Bartcast 24: Political Bodies and Body Politics: Biblical Transgressions of Class/Race Divides
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This Bartcast features a sermon delivered by Elaine and Ched at Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC, on the occasion of their 75th anniversary. It is entitled “Political Bodies and Body Politics: Biblical Transgressions of Class/Race Divides.” It was given on 9/9/18 (16th Sun after Pent); the lectionary texts were Prov 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23; Ps…
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Planet Potluck Episode 1: Grace Nosek
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Grace Nosek, host of Planet Potluck, shares how an injury drives her climate work, how a hopeful climate talk changed the course of her career, and how she's found community and joy by leaning into climate activism.Av Grace Nosek
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In this Bartcast Elaine and Ched describe the life and the hospice journey of dying of their dear mentor, Ladon Sheats on the 16th anniversary of his passing. They discuss Ladon’s commitments to radical discipleship, and the profound lessons of accompanying him in a remarkable experience of community hospice, including their experiment of green bur…
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Bartcast 22: Christians and Anarchism: One Foot in the Streets (interview with Ched), II
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Part II of his interview with Christian Anarchists in Sweden from the Aordet podcast; Ched talks about how to negotiate church and straddle the sanctuary and the streets.Av Ched Myers
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Bartcast 21: Christians and Anarchism: The Empty Throne (interview with Ched), I
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Speaking with Christian Anarchists in Sweden from the Aordet podcast, Ched talks about activism and anarchist perspectives on theology and politics. What does the Ark’s symbol of the “empty throne” tell us?Av Ched Myers
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Bartcast 18: Exodus Plagues and Climate Crisis - part 1
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A 3 part series of Ched’s reflections from April 2018 to the Baptist Alliance on how the Exodus Plagues narrative illuminates climate crisis today; an old angle on a new problem (or vice versa).Av Ched Myers
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Bartcast 19: Exodus Plagues and Climate Crisis - part 2
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A 3 part series of Ched’s reflections from April 2018 to the Baptist Alliance on how the Exodus Plagues narrative illuminates climate crisis today; an old angle on a new problem (or vice versa).Av Ched Myers
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Bartcast 20: Exodus Plagues and Climate Crisis - part 3
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A 3 part series of Ched’s reflections from April 2018 to the Baptist Alliance on how the Exodus Plagues narrative illuminates climate crisis today; an old angle on a new problem (or vice versa).Av Ched Myers
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