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.
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
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.
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.