Marissa’s Reviews > An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith > Status Update

“…Sabbath practice suspends our subtle and not so subtle ways of dominating one another on a regular basis. Because our work is so often how we both rank and rule over one another, resting from it gives us a rest from our own pecking orders as well. When the Walmart cashier and the bank president are both lying on picnic blankets at the park, it is hard to tell them apart.”

“Where religious identity is wedded to political power, we may resist, although never by adopting the tactics of those in charge. We may test the premise that God uses the weak to confound the strong, as well as the promise that the God who made others different from us is revealed in them as well as us. ‘The supreme religious challenge is to see God‘s image in the one who is not in our image.’ Rabbi Sacks”