Brueggemann, Lament, and My Hot Tub
“Everything is at stake when we don’t lament,” Brueggemann said for years. And that’s not all he said. Walt was known as a world-class scholar, authored some 125 published books, gave hundreds of lectures and interviews, and regretted that he was known as a “liberal” because that was not the way he understood himself. Personally, I’ve read more than a few Brueggemann’s books, taught courses at Eden Seminary when he was Dean, and we were friends in St Louis and again when we were both working in the Atlanta area. Oh, there is that story about my hot tub in Denver…