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

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 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.

The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.

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

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

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

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

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

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 all made commitments is now called into question.

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

Against ignorance, God Himself is helpless.

Strive to be value oriented rather than success oriented.

Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.

I'm on the edge with you

All I know is what I have words for.

The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.

Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.

Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.