📝 From the Pastor’s Desk

Resisting Hate

Holy Covenant,

Late last week, Walter Brueggemann passed away. He was a towering figure in the Protestant Church and a prophetic voice in biblical interpretation, influencing generations of ministers across denominations and traditions. His book The Prophetic Imagination was assigned to me in seminary and remains one of the most formative texts shaping my theology. Brueggemann’s approach to naming structures of power (kingdoms), honoring the grief of those crying out for justice (the oppressed), and highlighting the prophet’s role in reimagining the world (prophetic imagination), continues to shape how I read scripture and preach each Sunday.

As one of our own retired pastors and in-house authors, Jon Heaslet, said to me last week,

“He was a voice in the wilderness who called Americans to an accounting of their bowing before the gods of consumerism, militarism, racism, and homophobia.”

Over the past week…

Peace and Blessings,

Rev. Christopher Czarnecki

Senior Pastor, Holy Covenant UCC

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