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.

Dr. Walter Brueggemann 11/13/24 Dr. Walter Brueggemann 11/13/24

Living Outside the Lie

...it will be important that the church be engaged in that daily assault on denial, precisely because it is the truth, and only the truth, that can make us free.

Dr. Walter Brueggemann 10/4/23 Dr. Walter Brueggemann 10/4/23

Two Kinds of Truth

Thus everywhere in scripture the issue is joined between these two kinds of truth. One truth is top-down. It originates in and serves the aims of established power. It tends to be quantifiable, provides certitude and security, and grows always more abstract. The alternative truth embodied in and performed by Moses, Elijah, Elisha, and Jesus is bottom-up.