Ched Myers
During these chaotic economic times American Consumer Capitalism is under a great microscope. For many of us this is a great time to really get to come conversation around things that we have been feeling for quite sometime. One of those who is using the Christian tradition and Christian Scriptures to give us a different view of economics is Ched Myers.
I am personally so worn out from Churches, who don’t talk about economics or churches that can only talk about “cheap charity”. Charity is not what those who are being killed by an economic system need. What they need are people of faith to ask some real question, and use faith to bring about liberation for a system that is killing them. May we please start asking questions about who is really benefiting and what are the human costs. I think that Ched’s work does that.
In addition, to be truthful his work is in a long line of others who have done this kind of work and others who are doing it today around the world. For those of us in the United States this might seem new, but it is not. I was talking to Curtis DeYoung the other day, who leads the Reconciliation Studies Program at Bethel, and who is very well networked throughout the world, and he told me that Ched’s reading of scripture is in line with what many of our Brothers and Sisters are saying around the world.
There are the lectures that Ched gave at bethel:
http://www.archive.org/details/ChedMyersSocialInequalityClass
http://www.archive.org/details/ChedMyersLunchQAndA
http://www.archive.org/details/ChedMyersTopicsInTheology
To hear his chapel sermon go to ITunes and type in Bethel University.
To learn more about Ched Myers check out : http://bcm-net.org/
