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.
Due Cause for “Alas”
[The tenth commandment is] a dire warning against economic practices and land policies that permit the strong to occupy and control more and more of creation at the expense of needy neighbors, and at a cost to the wellbeing of creation.
The Unending Work of Contradiction
Twice in the gospel narrative Jesus declares the ultimate either/or of his life and teaching: “You cannot serve God and wealth.”
A Revolution Hurried Along
We prefer to have “only God.” But the God of the gospel is not on offer in that way. That is why Jesus insisted that we cannot have only one “great commandment.” There are always two.
The Fundamental Dilemma
The crisis to be addressed is the elemental recognition that we are double-minded, and the double-mindedness is ultimately exhausting: You cannot serve God and wealth.