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.

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.

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.

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 Kinsler Institute, as Dr Woodley and his wife Edith will be among our key resource people at the Institute (www.bcm-net.org/study/ki2019)

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 musical and many other talents).

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, streets, and soil.

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 146; Jas 2:1-10, 14-17; Mk 7:24-30. The focus is on what dominant culture folk must do to embrace the “other.”

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 burial.

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?

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.