Walter Brueggemann: Lament and Narratives
Walter Brueggemann and director Eliot Rausch share a conversation about the switching of narratives and life...
Tag Archives: Exodus Narrative
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:
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...
Walter Brueggemann: Pharaoh’s Economy Today
An intimate and powerful talk by Walter Brueggemann on how the modern economy reflects the essence...
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.
Data vs. Narrative
Peter Block and Walter Brueggemann discuss the power of narrative in determining the course of societal...
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....
Wilderness
Walter Brueggeman likens the Israelites’ difficult journey into the wilderness to modern believers’ journey toward a...
Nurturing a New Narrative
Peter Block and Walter Brueggemann discuss the role of the church in shifting from a consumerist...
Pain and Marching
Peter Block and Walter Brueggemann discuss the need to give voice to pain and take action...
Narrative of Scarcity
The Biblical source of the consumer mandate that what we have isn’t enough.
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