Those who participate in [sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to awareness that life does not consist in frantic production and consum…

- Walter Brueggemann

Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of i…

- Walter Brueggemann

When serious people of good faith disagree, they've got to go back into the narratives and come at it again. One of the problems in the church is tha…

- Walter Brueggemann

The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true.

- Walter Brueggemann

Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as n…

- Walter Brueggemann

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.

- Walter Brueggemann

The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of th…

- Walter Brueggemann

We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.

- Walter Brueggemann

Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refus…

- Walter Brueggemann