If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.

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

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

If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.

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

Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.

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