<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:18px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div><font size="5">The Young Prophets Collective just finished their first prophetic retreat.</font></div><div><font size="5">That leaves me wondering—</font></div><div><font size="5">what happened to the <b>Old </b>Prophets?</font></div><div><font size="5">And when did we turn into the Old Guard?</font></div><div><font size="5">Some of us died recently. Notably Walter Bruggemann:</font></div></div><div><font size="5"><br></font></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font color="#fbfbfc" style="background-color: inherit;"><span style="font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">“We will not understand the meaning of prophetic imagination unless we see the connection between the </span><em class="ydp50b7259ecss-2fg4z9 ydp50b7259ee1gzwzxm0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: none; border-color: currentcolor; font-size: 20px; line-height: inherit; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline-color: transparent;">religion of static triumphalism </em><span style="font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">and the </span><em class="ydp50b7259ecss-2fg4z9 ydp50b7259ee1gzwzxm0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: none; border-color: currentcolor; font-size: 20px; line-height: inherit; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline-color: transparent;">politics of oppression and exploitation,</em><span style="font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">” Dr. Brueggemann wrote in “The Prophetic Imagination.”</span></font></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font color="#fbfbfc" style="background-color: inherit;"><span style="font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><br></span></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font color="#fbfbfc" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(251, 251, 252); font-size: 20px;">I for one have had <b><i>way</i></b> more than enough of "the <i>religion of static triumphalism</i> and the <i>politics of oppression and exploitation</i>."</span></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font color="#fbfbfc" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(251, 251, 252); font-size: 20px;"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font color="#fbfbfc" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(251, 251, 252); font-size: 20px;">Marshall Jones</span></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font color="#fbfbfc" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(251, 251, 252); font-size: 20px;"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font color="#fbfbfc" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(251, 251, 252); font-size: 20px;"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/us/walter-brueggemann-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P08.Yfef.Vbwao1vaUZ1H&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/us/walter-brueggemann-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P08.Yfef.Vbwao1vaUZ1H&smid=url-share</a><br></div></div></div></body></html>