Ched Myers - Easter and Empire (N294)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

Christianity, Faithshift, Deconstruction, Christianmysticism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianspirituality, Progressivechristian, Christian, Religion, Emergingchurch

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this Easter special we interviewed the theologian Ched Myers about the politics of the passion narratives, exploring what the cross and its religious atonement ideas have to do with colonialism, capitalism and the power structures we live in today.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The The Greetings, beloved listeners, and welcome to Nomad's Easter special, where I, David Blower, caught up with one of my heroes, the
0:57.0	theologian Ched Myers, to talk about getting ourselves organized at Easter time.
1:03.8	It's a beautiful conversation and we hope you enjoy it very much.
1:08.0	Blessings and goodness.
1:13.1	Chad Myers, welcome to Nomad Podcast.
1:16.2	Thank you, David. Good to be with you.
1:18.6	It's great to be with you in real time. We've corresponded here and there, and it's really nice
1:23.9	to have a proper conversation with you. I wonder if you could begin by introducing
1:28.4	yourself where you are and what you do. I'm beaming to you from Southern California in the Ventura
1:36.0	River watershed and this is the traditional land of the Shumash where we live in work with Bartimae's cooperative ministries, which is 25 years old this year.
1:49.0	And our work is education, advocacy, and organizing at the intersection of gospel faith and social and ecological justice.
1:59.0	We do a pretty broad spectrum kinds of issue engagement,
2:05.6	both locally, regionally, nationally, and occasionally like this, internationally.
2:10.6	We describe our work as working at the intersection of seminary, sanctuary, streets, and soil,
2:16.6	trying to bring the best of those
2:18.6	pedagogies and practices to bear on our discipleship in the world.
2:25.5	And can you tell us a little bit about your faith journey, Chad?
2:29.2	What was the world that you grew up in, and how did your path take you to what you do now? I grew up in a
2:38.0	mixed class but economically upper middle class household about an hour and a half south of
2:47.3	where I live today in suburban Los Angeles, born in the mid-50s.
2:53.6	So I was just behind the curve of the great 60s surge of idealism and social justice.
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