Church Anew
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Church Anew
5d ago
We may take “trees” as representative of God’s good provision for the earth ..read more
Church Anew | Walter Bruggemann
2w ago
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 ..read more
Church Anew | Walter Bruggemann
3w ago
Even when it feels like we're alone, God reminds us: you have allies, you have purpose, and you have work to do ..read more
Church Anew | Walter Bruggemann
3w ago
So imagine—a church of hope that gathers yet again to affirm the abundance, hospitality, forgiveness, and peace-making reality of God ..read more
Church Anew | Walter Bruggemann
1M ago
The good news is that we are not and need not be propelled by the negating work of God, of Satan, of the devil, or the id ..read more
Church Anew | Walter Bruggemann
1M ago
Without a capacity for embarrassment, every greedy selfish action is accepted as legitimate ..read more
Church Anew | Walter Bruggemann
1M ago
It turns out that in “the water of baptism” the church has been entrusted with a mighty claim for the priority of community that resists and refuses the ideology of capitalist privatism ..read more
Church Anew | Walter Bruggemann
1M ago
We take a look back at Walter Brueggemann's thoughts on Biblical law and its place today, revisiting some of our favorite posts ..read more
Church Anew | Walter Bruggemann
1M ago
One need not do more than point out the claim of Jotham that when good people default on public responsibility, kudzu-like exploitative alternatives occupy the public space ..read more
Church Anew | Walter Bruggemann
2M ago
It is a moment of great importance when it dawns on one that there are other worlds and that a different world is chooseable beyond the one we had taken for granted.There is something teasingly elusive about such singing; we are able to sing what we cannot say ..read more