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.

Fathers and Sons: Gifts and Grievances
A defining claim in our common life, and therefore defining subject for gospel reflection, is the alienation and hoped-for reconciliation between fathers and sons.

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.