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.
Rewriting History
There can be little doubt that when we learn to reread the Bible, we will inescapably learn to read our own national history with more discerning eyes in a way that invites us to think again about our current national role in the world.
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.
Due Cause for “Alas”
[The tenth commandment is] a dire warning against economic practices and land policies that permit the strong to occupy and control more and more of creation at the expense of needy neighbors, and at a cost to the wellbeing of creation.
Permission to Narrate… Again
...Jesus restored to full life those who had been dismissed, discounted, and discarded by an economy too busy to notice, an economy bolstered and legitimated by religious claims made for and by “better” people.
Permission to Narrate
The work is to narrate, and narrate again, the pain of the world, the injustice of society, and the prospect for relief and recovery.
Always Means Never Meant
"... when the church recovers its own voice and its own nerve, the biblical text may continue to surge out of the past with a generative forcefulness into the present."
