The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope.

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

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

Those who participate in [sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to awareness that life does not consist in frantic production and consumption that reduces everyone else to threat and competition.

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

The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope.

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