Quotes from Walter Brueggemann

Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.

If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.

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

It is experiences of being overwhelmed, nearly destroyed, & surprisingly given life that empower us to pray & sing.

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 world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.

There are buoyant powers of healing at work in the world that do not depend on us, that we need not finance or keep functioning and that are not at our disposal.