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.

Dr. Walter Brueggemann 9/11/24 Dr. Walter Brueggemann 9/11/24

Singing Faith Lyrical and Truthful

There is something teasingly elusive about such singing; we are able to sing what we cannot say

Dr. Walter Brueggemann 11/29/23 Dr. Walter Brueggemann 11/29/23

When Water Does Not Win

In its pre-scientific articulation of creation, ancient Israel understood that the created order of the world is sustained by the creator God who held back the chaotic waters that were all around the earth, and that were endlessly moving against the created order in threatening ways.

Dr. Walter Brueggemann 4/26/23 Dr. Walter Brueggemann 4/26/23

Singing the Counter-Culture

We know and trust that the force of this other world does not evaporate when we close our hymnals. It persists. Our signing into that other world may also persist. We return to our more mundane worlds close at hand. But the singing persists and so that world persists among us, deabsolutizing the world in front of us, permitting us to host that other world and sign on for “a more excellent way” marked by faith, hope, and love.