Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist.

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

And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.

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.

The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.

Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist.

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