The prophetic point…is a call away from escapist nostalgia to a new community, to be given in God’s good governance that is marked by human life made possible, peaceable, and prosperous.

Near the end of Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History (2020), Kurt Andersen lists eight claims in the playbook of a political party wanting to take over the government. Dr. Brueggemann will take one blog post over the next few weeks to respond to each claim.

“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

Walter Brueggemann proposes the three best pitches of Christian life - generosity, hospitality, and forgiveness. And he calls the church to be a dugout community, where we practices these pitches for a life of the neighborhood being transformed before our very eyes.