‘A Great Temptation for Liberals’

And other thoughts from a previously unpublished interview with Walter Brueggemann.
Courtesy of the C. Benton Kline, Jr. Special Collections and Archives / Columbia Theological Seminary

FOUR DAYS AFTER the 2020 presidential election, Sojourners’ then-editor Jim Rice called biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann for his insights on that deeply polarized time, insights that are perhaps more relevant than ever. Their 15-minute phone call on Nov. 7 yielded more of the deep wisdom that Walter had shared with Sojourners since he published his first article with us in 1983. — The Editors

Jim Rice: Where do you think we are and what are we doing as a culture, as a people, and as people of faith?

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