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

Every imperial agent wants to reduce what is possible to what is available.

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.

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

Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.

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

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