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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- Jeremiah
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- coronavirus
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- George Floyd
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- Moses
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- public life
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- Nixon
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- interpretation
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- government
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- advent
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- healthcare
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- consumerism
- neighbor
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- class
- prophetic imagination
- protest
- jesus
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.