Walter Brueggemann Column

Church Anew was honored to host Walter Brueggemann as our featured columnist from 2020 through 2025. May this archive of his powerful and reflective writings continue to inspire, energize, guide, and comfort you.

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Defying Erasure

In Christian confession, the ultimate moment of imperial erasure is on Good Friday. By sundown on that Friday, the emperor, the governor, and the Jewish king, Herod, all thought they had effectively erased and eliminated the threat of the alternative governance that Jesus embodied.