The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.

Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch and handle is not likely to retain its promissory call to a new future. Hope expressed only in the present tense will no doubt be coopted by the managers of this age

The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true.

Those who participate in [sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to awareness that life does not consist in frantic production and consumption that reduces everyone else to threat and competition.

God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.

Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.

The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.