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Walter Brueggemann — The Prophetic Imagination

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Poetry and the Newness of the World

The world we have trusted in is vanishing before our eyes, and the world that is coming at us feels like a threat to us. And people don't much want to hear either one of those words,. That's why this kind of poetry always leaves us uneasy, i think. But i think that you also think that that unease is a holy thing, or can be a holy thing? The bible calls the faithful not to be too settled on what has already been achieved.

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