The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.
Walter BrueggemannBuechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.
Walter BrueggemannThe world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.
Walter BrueggemannWe now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality.
Walter Brueggemann