Join The Underlines // The Best Of What I Read

A batch of the best highlights from what Joshua's read, .

Indeed, our consumer society is grounded in the generation of artificial desires, readily transposed into urgent needs. The always-emerging new desires and new needs create a restless striving that sets neighbor against neighbor in order to get ahead, to have an advantage, and to accumulate at the expense of the other. The power of such a compulsion to “get,” of course, negates neighborly possibility.

Sabbath as Resistance, New Edition With Study Guide

Walter Brueggemann

That’s why mission is the work of the whole church, the whole time.

Surprised by Hope

N. T. Wright

It’s not just that I “know” some end or “believe” in some telos. More than that, I long for some end. I want something, and want it ultimately. It is my desires that define me. In short, you are what you love.

You Are What You Love

James K. A. Smith

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