Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural, but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.

Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.

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.

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

Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural, but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.

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