"... 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."

Walter Brueggemann examines debt, hoarding, and the failure of our economy, and shows how Scripture may allow the creation of an alternative.

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 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.

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.