Walter Brueggemann Column
Church Anew was honored to host Walter Brueggemann as our featured columnist from 2020 through 2025. May this archive of his powerful and reflective writings continue to inspire, energize, guide, and comfort you.
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An Iconic Act of Civil Disobedience
The absolute prohibition and the qualification that follows together exhibit the characteristic work of Torah teaching that must mediate between absolute theological, covenantal claims and the reality of lived life.