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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,...

— are bound to engage in killing violence, because the others are a threat; — are bound to reduce sexual interaction to exploitative commodity; — are bound to usurp from others if it is something they want; — are bound to engage in distortion and euphemism to gain advantage; — are bound to be committed to acquisitiveness. Moses recited all the commandments. You who keep Sabbath do not need — to dishonor mother and father, — to kill, — to commit adultery, — to steal, — to bear false witness, — to
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