Tag: Walter Brueggeman

Take the Load Off

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“The cross is a contradiction to the world and pertains to public policy just as it pertains to personal well- being.” | Walter Brueggeman, A Way Other Than Our Own: Devotions for Lent “Give us a sign!”  This is the demand not only of the Pharisees in Jesus’ day but in our own.  While it […]

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Take the Lead

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“I imagine Lent for you and for me as a great departure from the greedy, anxious anti-neighborliness of our economy, a great departure from our exclusionary politics that fears the other, a great departure from self-indulgent consumerism that devours creation. And then an arrival in a new neighborhood, because it is a gift to be […]

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