Scholar-Activist Encounter: Ched Myers and Chuck Collins

Scholar-Activist Encounters

November 13, 2025, 7:30pm Eastern US Time

How do activism and scholarship contribute to our understanding of Scripture in the world today?

CLBSJ is excited to welcome CLBSJ co-founder Ched Myers in dialogue with inequality.org’s Chuck Collins for a deep dive into the problem of plutocracy. They will explore the intersection of their new books on this subject, both written under the shadow of the plutocratic politics that are currently colonizing the U.S. Ched will overview his Healing Affluenza, Resisting Plutocracy: Luke’s Jesus and Sabbath Economics, to which Chuck wrote the Foreword. Chuck will discuss his just-released volume Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power Are Ruining Our Lives and Planet. These two friends will then explore how biblical critique, social analysis and political organizing can conspire to animate current resistance to a toxic, run-away “broligarchy.”

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Speaker Bios

Ched Myers is an ecumenical activist theologian who has worked in social change movements for more than forty-five years. After graduate work in New Testament and two decades as an organizer, he has focused on publishing and popular education that animates Scripture and builds capacity for faith-rooted movements for peace and justice. He has written and taught widely about radical discipleship at the intersection of seminary, sanctuary, streets, and soil. Click here to read full bio.

Chuck Collins is a campaigner and storyteller who has worked for decades on environmental and economic justice campaigns.  He is the Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies where he co-edits Inequality.org.  He is cofounder of DivestInvest.org, a global movement to divest from fossil fuels and invest in climate solutions; and trustee of the Post-Carbon Institute and Resilience.org. Click here to read full bio.