prosperity for all; if that situation is exacerbated by our own captivity to the impotent imagination of our culture, then what we most desperately need is a spiritually renewed imagination. This is what Brueggemann calls a prophetic imagination. You see, for a prophet, or for a prophetic community, the first question is never whether a vision or a worldview is realistic, viable, practical, implementable.47 If that is our first question, then this is simply an indication of how our imaginations are held