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Walter Brueggemann — The Prophetic Imagination

On Being with Krista Tippett

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God Is the Real Thing

The kind of god at work in your life will determine the shape and quality and risk at the centre of existence. I learned that when my son was about seven, and at our table prayers,. i always addressed god as father. And that night i thought, i would be jewish. And i addressed god as king of the universe. My son had his head bowed, and he came up with eyes as big as saucers, cause he had never heard god saidtha. Sogod brought the speech is a very supple reality in which we exercise great freedom in whom god is now permitted to be among us.

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