It is God the creator who sends,
grows,
produces,
dispatches.
in a generative summons to work required of the earth.

Walter Brueggemann writes on the scholarship of late anthropologist James C. Scott, and how “the weapons of the weak” may be found in Scripture.

In this column, Walter Brueggemann writes on technological advancement and its ties to imperialism, and how Scripture can help us avoid the pitfalls of a rapidly advancing world.

Naboth continues to cry out in every verdict of dispossession. His cry sounds among us in many different cadences and in many different dialects, including among us the cadences and dialects of Black Americans. What a work for the church to be listening and responding to that shrill cry!

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.