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

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 ….

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

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..

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

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 n….

Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity..

Those who participate in [sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to awareness that life does not consist in frantic production and consum….

Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of i….

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

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

The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of th….

When serious people of good faith disagree, they've got to go back into the narratives and come at it again. One of the problems in the church is tha….

Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refus….

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

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

The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the wor….

We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of an….

Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch and handle is not like….

The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform in our own lives. There is nothing innocuous or sa….

On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have al….