Ched Myers - Roll Like a River (N246)

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Tim Nash

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

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Ched Myers is a theologian, and author of the explosive Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus.

We asked Ched to reflect on the theology and ecology of rivers for this extended devotional podcast. He 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 colonisation and empire habitually steal water and turn fertile places into deserts.
Ched has recently co-authored, with Elaine Enns: Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Nomad Podcast.
0:03.9	This episode has been put together in the style of one of our Nomad Devotionals, which are
0:09.7	available to our monthly patrons.
0:12.2	You can find out more at nomadpodcast.co.uk.
0:17.1	Today we're hearing from Ched Myers, who wrote the book, Binding the Strong Man,
0:23.0	which is a commentary on Mark's Gospel, and one of the most extraordinary things I've ever read.
0:29.1	More recently, he's co-authored Healing Haunted Histories with Elaine N's,
0:35.3	a settler discipleship of decolonization.
0:38.3	I asked Ched to reflect
0:41.3	theologically and ecologically on rivers, and this is what happened.
0:46.3	This is what happened. The
0:57.0	The The
1:13.6	The It's Chad Myers here at beaming in from the Ventura River watershed in Southern California, half a
1:45.6	planet away. Delighted to be part of Nomad podcast. You'll talk a little bit about rivers from both
1:53.5	an ecological and theological perspective. My wife and I and our small community live and work in the Ventura River watershed nestled at the northern end of the Southern California coastal bio region.
2:08.6	Our home and ecological sustainability project stands ascared 50 meters away, perched above the Ventura River midway, down its short 16-mile course
2:21.0	in a little blue-collar unincorporated town of about 4,000 people. We moved here from East
2:28.0	Los Angeles, the great world metropolis some 15 years ago. So a little bit about my ecological context. The basin of the
2:37.7	Ventura River covers only 230 square miles with more than a 6,000 foot elevation fall from
2:45.4	mountains to ocean. So our watershed is relatively small. The Ventura is a seasonal braided river that meanders and
2:54.1	regularly shifts its course. It has no recorded Shumash name, the Shumash are the indigenous
3:01.0	people of this region. A local Shumash colleague explained to us during a recent tour of the watershed we didn't name
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