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Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now (New Edition with Study Guide) is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this new edition that includes a six-session study guide, popular author Walter Brueggemann writes that the Sabbath is not simply about keeping rules but rather about becoming a whole person and restoring a whole society. Brueggemann calls out our 24/7 society of consumption, a society in which we live to achieve, accomplish, perform, and possess. We want more, own more, use more, eat more,...

At Sinai, Israel made a defining choice. It decided to trust the God who made heaven and earth (Exod. 20:11), to rely on the guaranteed reliabilities of the creation, and to eschew the anxiety that comes from loss of confidence in the sureness of the creator and the goodness of creation. That defining choice, however, was not easy to sustain. The oath of allegiance to YHWH is sworn in Exodus 24. But by Exodus 32, when Moses had been gone from
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