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.
On The Role of Bishops
Walter Brueggemann writes on the church's lost duty to the poor, and how ecclesiastical leaders can help recover its most elemental mission.
The Production and Defeat of Poverty
Walter Brueggemann examines debt, hoarding, and the failure of our economy, and shows how Scripture may allow the creation of an alternative.
Greed which is Idolatry
Walter Brueggemann examines how we may use the Bible to maintain generosity in the face of modern greed. Through loyalty to our community and the God of abundance we may resist the ideologies of scarcity and covetousness.
Deserves to be Paid
It cannot be unimportant to the church that the long-running story of God’s engagement with the human economy begins in the narrative of a labor dispute.
The Dispossessing Power of Violent Greed
Naboth continues to cry out in every verdict of dispossession. His cry sounds among us in many different cadences and in many different dialects, including among us the cadences and dialects of Black Americans. What a work for the church to be listening and responding to that shrill cry!
