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.

Two Kinds of Truth
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Two Kinds of Truth

Thus everywhere in scripture the issue is joined between these two kinds of truth. One truth is top-down. It originates in and serves the aims of established power. It tends to be quantifiable, provides certitude and security, and grows always more abstract. The alternative truth embodied in and performed by Moses, Elijah, Elisha, and Jesus is bottom-up.

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Reflections of My Childhood
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Reflections of My Childhood

It occurs to me that this deep conviction of God’s providential care (that as instanced for me by my dad) is best sung, because it does not conform to our conventional adherence to patterns of “cause and effect.” That is, it dwells outside of our common rationality and invites us to think in alternative categories.

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A Preacher's Dilemma: Verse 12?
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A Preacher's Dilemma: Verse 12?

The first, very important task of exegesis was to determine the extent of the textual unit, where it began and where it ended. This is often clear and self-evident in scripture; but sometimes it is not. Jeremiah 18:1-11 and Jeremiah 18:1-12 offer somewhat contradictory, but equally valuable, interpretations of scripture that can be relevant to modernity and thus strategic to ministry.

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Miskotti on “Resistance”
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Miskotti on “Resistance”

Miskotti’s words are an invitation for us to think again and appropriate anew the reality that our engagement with the God of the gospel is indeed a conversation, an exchange that can and must be acted out in the public domain. It is this non-negotiable gift of such an exchange that is the most elemental practice of the church.

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