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.
Between and Beyond Certitudes
Walter Brueggemann writes on the church's potential as an outsider to the social order, and how it can reach across societal stratification.
Consumer Economy: Discontented and Ungrateful
The wisdom tradition of ancient Israel reflected, long and deep, upon... the world of accumulation, greed, and restless satisfaction of endless appetites.
Gifts Beyond Explanation
It is God the creator who sends,
grows,
produces,
dispatches.
in a generative summons to work required of the earth.
The Great Contest
It turns out that in “the water of baptism” the church has been entrusted with a mighty claim for the priority of community that resists and refuses the ideology of capitalist privatism.
Finding Your Voice
Newman writes in an almost gnomic style with abrupt half-sentences, wistful unfinished thoughts, and frequent appeal to “threes” that he finds suggestive. The crux of his elusive work is to report on the way in which good writing must adhere to conventions of plot, structure, and genre.