Michael Philip

“How could any theologian explain the meaning of Christian identity in America and fail to engage white supremacy, its primary negation?”
― James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

“Sabbath-keeping requires two orientations. One is Godward. The other is timeward. To keep Sabbath well—as both a day and an attitude—we have to think clearly about God and freshly about time. We likely, at some level, need to change our minds about both. Unless we trust God’s sovereignty, we won’t dare risk Sabbath. And unless we receive time as abundance and gift, not as ration and burden, we’ll never develop a capacity to savor Sabbath.”
― Mark Buchanan, The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath

“The cross was God’s critique of power—white power—with powerless love, snatching victory out of defeat.”
― James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

“without rest, we miss the rest of God: the rest he invites us to enter more fully so that we might know him more deeply. “Be still, and know that I am God.” Some knowing is never pursued, only received. And for that, you need to be still.”
― Mark Buchanan, The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath