Few theologians have influenced me the way that Walter Brueggemann has—perhaps N. T. Wright and Dallas Willard are up there with him—from my political and economic engagement to my vocation as a writer to even my personal discipleship. His work on the “liturgy of abundance” versus the “myth of scarcity”11 is primarily for the big picture—the empire, economics, justice for the poor, war—but because I am one