Walter Brueggemann Column
Church Anew is honored to welcome Walter Brueggemann as our featured weekly 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.
The Voice of the Victim
In this blog, Walter Bruggemann discusses an unlikely group of people who come together through music. He connects this to the book of revelation and the Roman Empire.
A Music-Making Counter-Community
In this blog, Walter Bruggemann discusses an unlikely group of people who come together through music. He connects this to the book of revelation and the Roman Empire.
Tractor: Icon of Predatory Development
In this blog, Walter Bruggermann compares three examples of authors using the tractor as a symbol of exploitation and industrialization.
Hoe! Hoe! Hoe!
In this blog, Walter Bruggermann reflects on Amos 9:7 and how everyone including the marginalized and underrepresented are beloved children of God.
Two Farmers…Two Ways
In this blog, Walter Bruggermann reflects on Amos 9:7 and how everyone including the marginalized and underrepresented are beloved children of God.
The God of the Other (Amos 9:7)
In this blog, Walter Bruggermann reflects on Amos 9:7 and how everyone including the marginalized and underrepresented are beloved children of God.
There are Conspiracies and Then There are Conspiracies
“My thought is that the truth-telling vocation of the church is to attest the claim of the gospel as a means by which to adjudicate every claim of conspiracy. The norms of the gospel are not complex or obscure, even if they are difficult. It is first to love God, to trace out the truth of God that consists in “justice, righteousness, compassion, steadfast love and faithfulness”
You Who Casts Our Fear & Other Writings from Walter Brueggemann
Walter Brueggemann provides two reflection this week: first on the God who casts out fear, second on his own Social Location
Strike! Best Pitches of Christian Life
Walter Brueggemann proposes the three best pitches of Christian life - generosity, hospitality, and forgiveness. And he calls the church to be a dugout community, where we practices these pitches for a life of the neighborhood being transformed before our very eyes.