Walter Brueggemann Column
Church Anew is honored to host Walter Brueggemann as our featured columnist. We look forward to sharing Walter’s work with church leaders and faithful people worldwide. May his powerful and reflective writings inspire, energize, guide, and comfort you.
Always Means Never Meant
"... when the church recovers its own voice and its own nerve, the biblical text may continue to surge out of the past with a generative forcefulness into the present."
The Production and Defeat of Poverty
Walter Brueggemann examines debt, hoarding, and the failure of our economy, and shows how Scripture may allow the creation of an alternative.
A Sufficiency Other Than Our Own (Evil Geniuses Series)
The sixth claim is that liberty equals selfishness. This claim imagines that “liberty” means to be totally unencumbered in the reach for wealth, control, and power. All of this, of course, is the extreme expression of the deep American creed of “individualism.” The inescapable outcome of such posturing is an unsafe society marked by an undercurrent of ready violence that preys upon the innocent and the vulnerable.
The Discomforting Gift of Newness (Evil Geniuses Series)
The prophetic point…is a call away from escapist nostalgia to a new community, to be given in God’s good governance that is marked by human life made possible, peaceable, and prosperous.
The Possibility of Good Government (Evil Geniuses Series)
Near the end of Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History (2020), Kurt Andersen lists eight claims in the playbook of a political party wanting to take over the government. Dr. Brueggemann will take one blog post over the next few weeks to respond to each claim.