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• And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will…
• Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is…
• Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.
• Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system…
• The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of…
• The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.
• When serious people of good faith disagree, they've got to go back into the narratives and come at it again. One of…
• People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or…
• Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep…
• We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the…
• The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's…
• We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another…

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