“My thought is that the truth-telling vocation of the church is to attest the claim of the gospel as a means by which to adjudicate every claim of conspiracy. The norms of the gospel are not complex or obscure, even if they are difficult. It is first to love God, to trace out the truth of God that consists in “justice, righteousness, compassion, steadfast love and faithfulness”

Walter Brueggemann provides two reflection this week: first on the God who casts out fear, second on his own Social Location