Walter Brueggemann and director Eliot Rausch share a conversation about the switching of narratives and life as covenant. Brueggemann dives into the myth of being self-sufficient, and how lament is the breaking against numbness.

“There is another, more excellent way. We don’t have to live like this,” says Walter.

Filmed in 2017, this video is titled “The Ache” and is part one of a six-part series produced by Bittersweet Monthly.