Josh Nelson

“Unless one learns how to relish the taste of Sabbath … one will be unable to enjoy the taste of eternity in the world to come.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath

“we may consider the sabbath as an alternative to the endless demands of economic reality, more specifically the demands of market ideology that depend, as Adam Smith had already seen, on the generation of needs and desires that will leave us endlessly “rest-less,” inadequate, unfulfilled, and in pursuit of that which may satiate desire.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now

“But Sabbath is not only resistance. It is alternative. It is an alternative to the demanding, chattering, pervasive presence of advertising and its great liturgical claim of professional sports that devour all our “rest time.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now

“Multitasking is the drive to be more than we are, to control more than we do, to extend our power and our effectiveness. Such practice yields a divided self, with full attention given to nothing.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now