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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.
Walter Brueggemann
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Walter Brueggemann
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 11
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Tilden
Nebraska
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Those who participate in [sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to awareness that life does not consist in frantic production and consumption that reduces everyone else to threat and competition.
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The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence the outcome is a colonized imagination that is drained of dangerous hope.
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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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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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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.
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Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.
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We do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised.
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The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.
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The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.
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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.
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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 likely to retain its promissory call to a new future. Hope expressed only in the present tense will no doubt be coopted by the managers of this age
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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 normal and natural, but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.
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The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true.
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Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.
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Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist.
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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 that people are not willing to do that. People have arrived at a place where they think they have got the answer.
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