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.

A Sufficiency Other Than Our Own (Evil Geniuses Series)
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A Sufficiency Other Than Our Own (Evil Geniuses Series)

The sixth claim is that liberty equals selfishness. This claim imagines that “liberty” means to be totally unencumbered in the reach for wealth, control, and power. All of this, of course, is the extreme expression of the deep American creed of “individualism.” The inescapable outcome of such posturing is an unsafe society marked by an undercurrent of ready violence that preys upon the innocent and the vulnerable.

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