Join The Underlines // The Best Of What I Read

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

Moses anticipates that if they are not alert to the God of emancipation, they will end up right back in another system of coercion. Because the land is fertile, its produce will make Israel safe and happy. And if Israel can increase its produce, it will be safer and happier. And Israel will discover that the sky is the limit! The fertility of the land and the productivity of the system will make Israel acquisitive; Israel will come to think that the goal of its life is to acquire and acquire and acquire. And in order to acquire, Israelites must compete with the neighbor. The system will turn one’s neighbor into a competitor and a threat and a challenge.

Sabbath as Resistance, New Edition With Study Guide

Walter Brueggemann

Going through the motions, as every dancer knows, can be an important thing to do.

How to Pray

Pete Greig

The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.

A Creative Minority

Jon Tyson, Heather Grizzle

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