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.

Dr. Walter Brueggemann 5/6/25 Dr. Walter Brueggemann 5/6/25

Victims of Predatory Capitalism

The human domination of creation has specialized in unrestrained, arrogant dominion of creation as if it were a useful system and resource without limitation.

Dr. Walter Brueggemann 4/30/25 Dr. Walter Brueggemann 4/30/25

Consumer Economy: Discontented and Ungrateful

The wisdom tradition of ancient Israel reflected, long and deep, upon... the world of accumulation, greed, and restless satisfaction of endless appetites.

Dr. Walter Brueggemann 4/23/25 Dr. Walter Brueggemann 4/23/25

Gifts Beyond Explanation

It is God the creator who sends,
grows,
produces,
dispatches.
in a generative summons to work required of the earth.

Dr. Walter Brueggemann 4/16/25 Dr. Walter Brueggemann 4/16/25

Accessibility as Moral Mandate

Mark 10:46-52 affirms the basic tenets of the disabled people’s movement, that the barriers faced by persons with needs who want access to wellbeing are often humanly constructed barriers.

Dr. Walter Brueggemann 4/10/25 Dr. Walter Brueggemann 4/10/25

Cory Talks Us to Life

Just now we are grateful for Cory Booker,
for his long-running speech,
for his testimony to good governance,
for his integrity that does not flinch from truth-telling.