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.
Hair: Marker of Manhood?
There is a series of texts in which the marker of hair strikes one as odd and noticeable, until we recognize that hair as taken as evidence of maleness. Thus Jacob expresses his anxiety about his lack of hair