<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I dont understand the quote from Bruggeman. Also I dont know what young prophets OR old prophets is pointing to in this world<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Jim Wiegel</span><br><div>













<p class="p1"><span class="s1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“…the long work<br>
of turning their lives<br>
into a celebration<br>
is not easy. Come </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 19pt;">and let us talk</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 19pt;">“. </span></p><p class="p1"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 19pt;">The Sunflowers. Mary Oliver</span></p></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 18, 2025, at 4:41 PM, Richard Alton via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">thanks, Dick</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM W. J. via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif;font-size:18px"><div dir="ltr"><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:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><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 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 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"><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"><font color="#fbfbfc" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="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"><font color="#fbfbfc" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="font-size:20px"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#fbfbfc" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="font-size:20px">Marshall Jones</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#fbfbfc" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="font-size:20px"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#fbfbfc" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="font-size:20px"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><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></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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