Resistance to Coercion

Published: Sept. 15, 2019, 10 a.m.

b'Sabbath is the break, regular and public, that permits us to remember. Sabbath is the opportunity to recall Egypt and \\nPharaoh and then to remember YHWH and exodus. Sabbath is the day to dance and sing\\u2026Those who remember and keep the Sabbath find they are less driven, less coerced, less frantic to meet deadlines, free to be, rather than to do.\\n~ Walter Brueggemann\\n\\nIn this interpretive tradition, Sabbath is not simply a pause. It is an occasion for reimagining all social life away from coercion and competition to compassionate solidarity\\u2026Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms. \\n~ Walter Brueggemann'