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

Sabbath is the practice of letting life rest safely in God's hand.41

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

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

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

Sabbath becomes a decisive, concrete, visible way of opting for and aligning with the God of rest.

Every uncompromising ideology reduces faith to an idolatry,

I had come for certitude, but the poetic speech does not give certitude.

Worship that does not lead to neighborly compassion and justice cannot be faithful worship of YHWH. The offer is a phony Sabbath!

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

prophetic preaching can take place only where the preacher is deeply embedded in the YHWH narrative.

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

To participate in the Eucharist is to live inside God's imagination. It is to be caught up into what is really real, the body of Christ.

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

Relationship with God is not immune to the surprises and costs of our daily life.

Cynicism always comes clothed in "realism". The alternatives to begin with an act of imagination. Can we imagine another way?

We have nearly lost our capacity to think ihcologicafly about public issues and public problems.

We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.

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

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be resolved until the human rights of the other are recognized and guaranteed.

We do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised.

In that world where jingles replace doxology, God is not free and the people know no justice or compassion.

1. The first partner in the meeting is the text.

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

2. The second partner in the meeting is the baptized.

(paraphrasing 1 Cor. 1:25) that the fictions of God are truer than the facts of men.13

We live our lives before the wild, dangerous, unfettered and free character of the living God.

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.

Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.

The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.

The two commandments go beneath social performance and social appearance to the deep, elemental, defining issue of God versus the gods.

Prophecy cannot be separated very long from doxology, or it will either wither or become ideology. Abraham

Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives.

Moses knows that prosperity breeds amnesia.

Anomie is not a danger only for the young; it may surface in what is now conventionally called the "crisis of mid-life" or anywhere else.