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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 refusal to let one's life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.

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

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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.

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

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Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.

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Walter Brueggemann

Walter Brueggemann

Born: March 11, 1933 (age 92)
Bio: Walter Brueggemann is an American Protestant Old Testament scholar and theologian. Brueggemann is widely considered one of the most influential Old Testament scholars of the last several decades.
Known for:
  1. Prophetic imagination (1978)
  2. The message of the Psalms (1984)

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