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.
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."
Out-Interpreting the Ten Commandments
Walter Brueggemann writes on Louisiana’s public exhibition of the Ten Commandments, and how we may interpret and reframe Biblical Law to better serve our marginalized neighbors.
On Being Fit
No doubt all of us have a stake in “being fit.” But we have great disagreement upon that for which we may be appropriately “fit.”
Unshakeable Systems?!?
In church we do not claim that “history” is the active agent in “overturning and upending.” Rather we say it is the Lord of history, the one we confess in Jesus of Nazareth, who in cunning, hidden, and resolved ways does the overturning amid history.
In Praise of Thickness
The Bible, of course, is a collage of many rules. It is important, in the Bible as in our society, to distinguish between thick rules and thin rules.
