Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.

Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.

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.

Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.

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

The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.

While the Passover narrative [in Exodus] energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done at Mt. Sinai. . . . Moses' difficult work at Sinai is to transform the narrative vision of the Exodus into a sustainable social practice that has institutional staying-power, credibility, and authority.