christopher spolar

“subversives in the face of totalism have always had to speak twice in the same utterance, once for the official record and once for the truth of bodily reality.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture

“The narrative knows the way in which hungry peasants, in need of food from the monopoly, will pay their money, then forfeit their cattle, and then finally give up their land, because Pharaoh leverages food in order to enhance his power. In the end, the peasants are so “happy” that they asked to be “owned”:”
― Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture

“The store-house cities are an ancient parallel to the great banks and insurance houses where surplus wealth is kept among us. That surplus wealth, produced by the cheap labor of peasants, must now be protected from the peasants by law and by military force.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture

“the church is, in my judgment, called to its public vocation to practice neighborliness in a way that includes both support of policies of distributive justice and practices of face-to-face restorative generosity.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture