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

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

We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality.

The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.

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

Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.

When serious people of good faith disagree, they've got to go back into the narratives and come at it again. One of the problems in the church is that people are not willing to do that. People have arrived at a place where they think they have got the answer.