Walter Brueggemann: Neighborliness & Solidarity
How can I be in solidarity with those who are different from me? The issue is...
Category Archives: Walter Brueggemann
Walter Brueggemann is one of the most influential Old Testament scholars of the last several decades, known throughout the world for his method of combining literary and sociological modes when reading The Bible.
Walter Brueggemann: Lament and Narratives
Walter Brueggemann and director Eliot Rausch share a conversation about the switching of narratives and life...
Filled with Wonder
In this beautiful video, Walter Brueggemann shares insight on the significance of the Advent story. “History...
Meditating on a Neighborly Economy
Father Richard Rohr shared that a neighborly economy “sounds a lot like the Gospel to me”...
Bringing Forth Jubilee in 2019
The old testament story of the end to slavery is part of a current conversation in...
From an Extractive to Neighborly Economy
Walter Brueggemann shares insight on today’s economy of extraction, a modern version of Pharaoh’s economy. The extractive economy is abnormal and the enemy of God’s intention for our neighborhood and our common humanness. Brueggemann describes to participants at the Conspire Gathering how when people left Pharaoh into the wilderness life supports were given. Listen:
Departing the Consumer Culture
Conversation with Walter Brueggemann ~ October 2, 2018 Quick Summary: October 2, 2018 dialog they invited...
Another Other Kingdom
Walter Brueggemann joins Peter Block and John McKnight in a continuance of the conversation from their...
Living into an Abundant Economy
The Christian narrative of abundance and hope is a radical alternative to the scarcity narrative and...
Common Good Fellowship pilot beginsFellowship program provides community for radical leaders
Last week 33 change makers in the Common Good Fellowship pilot program convened in Cincinnati for...
Walter Brueggemann: Pharaoh’s Economy Today
An intimate and powerful talk by Walter Brueggemann on how the modern economy reflects the essence...
Announcing Common Good
Walter Brueggemann, John McKnight and Peter Block are the curators and conversation partners for the first...
Abundant Communities Zooms to Alberta
NewScoop YYC, a Canadian generative news cooperative, recently hosted an Abundant Communities Zoom meeting bringing together...
An Other Kingdom: The Background
Coauthors of An Other Kingdom, Walter Brueggemann, John McKnight, and Peter Block, talked with Peter Pula and Michelle Strutzenberger (Axiom News) about the new book. They describe how the three of them came together and why the religion of consumerism needs serious rethinking.
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Walter Brueggemann
Provides a digital catalog of Walter’s work, serves as a news outlet for new books and...
Conversation with John, Peter and Walter
Tuesday, March 8 at 1:00 pm Eastern ~ Free online/dial-up conversation Walter Brueggemann, John McKnight, and...
Jubilee Forum 1 – Walter Brueggemann
Jubilee Forum 1, August 13, 2015
Walter Brueggemann, retired (supposedly) Old Testament Scholar and author, speaks to our relationship with money. He speaks to the exodus story and the wilderness from the Old Testament and the Pharaoh economy. It is about our passion for austerity and the possibility of creating an alternative.
An Other Kingdom
by Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, and John McKnight available at the following: Powells Barnes & Noble...
An Other Kingdom
Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, and John McKnight have written a new book, An Other Kingdom, to...
The Economics of Compassion: Can This City Wipe Out Debt by 2019?
Sarah van Gelder talks with theologian Walter Brueggeman an inspiration to The Economics of Compassion Initiative,...
Data vs. Narrative
Peter Block and Walter Brueggemann discuss the power of narrative in determining the course of societal...
Welcoming the Poor in from Exile
Walter is an old testament scholar who grounds and activates our efforts to restore the commons by connecting Biblical narratives to the modern economy. He offers compelling insights into how we can imagine a way beyond the human costs of a culture built on acquisition and individualism.
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Dancing into Freedom
Peter Block discusses the need for vision and unity in the pursuit of an alternative economy....
Certitude Versus Faithfulness
Our task is to interrupt the consumer market ideology, which a modern story of Pharaoh’s Egypt....
Uncredentialed Leader
Walter Brueggeman discusses the move from indebtedness to freedom, drawing upon the story of Elijah and...
Wilderness
Walter Brueggeman likens the Israelites’ difficult journey into the wilderness to modern believers’ journey toward a...
Into Slavery
Scarcity and food monopoly is at the center of slavery. Ancient and today. Walter opens our...
Food Monopoly
Joseph and Pharaoh were the original source of agribusiness. Reconstructing the production and distribution and purchase...
