Presenters: Elaine Enns and Ched Myers
Interfaith Scholar Weekend 2022 Schedule

Sabbath Economics
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Crises
March 18
7:00-8:30pm
7:00-8:30pm
Revisiting Old Covenants in a Time of Plagues

- The “hockey stick curves” of social and ecological indicators of historical crises
- The old story of plagues of and on Egypt
- Exodus 16 as an archetypal blueprint for survival and sustainability
- Huldah, a mysterious prophet who exhumes buried covenants to animate justice and sustainability (2 Kgs 22:14; 2 Chr. 34:22)
March 19
10:30-12:00pm
10:30-12:00pm
Manna vs. Mammon:
Are We Building Capital or Community?

- Breaking taboos of silence around economics in our houses of worship
- The Levitical Tradition of Jubilee and the shmitta year (Leviticus 25 and 27)
- Its preservation by the African American Church
- The Muslim notion of riba-free banking; (Surah Al ‘Imran verses 13-132)
- Tonnies’ classic articulation of Gesellschaft (capital) vs. Gemeinschaft (community)
- The structural economic disparities of indebtedness, homelessness and impoverishing work
- The gospel parable of the “De-fective Manager” (Luke 16: 1-9)
- A Sabbath Economics covenant for personal and political transformation (first three steps), with a nod toward the current.
March 19
1:00-2:30pm
1:00-2:30pm
Public Addiction, Ecological Ultimatums:
A Call to Recovery

- Twelve Step Spirituality and public addiction
- Looking at our production/consumption habits through the addiction-recovery lens
- Our ecological footprint and Wendell Berry’s golden rule
- Solidarity as defection from the social architecture of isolation
- Demonstration projects in communities of color
- Compulsive work and the Green Sabbath Project
March 20
1:00-2:30pm
1:00-2:30pm
Sabbath as Reparative Justice

- How to address historical inequities
- Healing Haunting Histories and decolonization work
- Jesus and the Rich Man (Mt. 19:16-30; Mk.10:17-31; Lk.18:18-30) as a call to reparative justice
- How to sustain Sabbath Economics Covenant work in our communities of faith
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