Moral responsibility
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity…. As the chief moral guardian of the community, the church…
Read MoreNothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity…. As the chief moral guardian of the community, the church…
Read MoreSabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh,…
Read MoreEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2011, Deborah Lewis recounts how she’s…
Read MoreI saw then what I hadn’t seen before, that I was very good at despising slavery in the abstract, in the removed and anonymous…
Read MoreSabbatical. Professor So-And-So is on sabbatical. That’s quite special and important, isn’t it? That time away is practically holy. (What does one actually do…
Read MoreHe who wants to enter the holiness of the day must first lay down the profanity of clattering commerce, of being yoked to toil….
Read MoreEvery Saturday, I was exiled to the old country, serving time amidst plastic-covered furniture, buttocks sticking and pulling free, glooming in my grandparents’ grey…
Read MoreThe Sabbath, thus, is more than an armistice, more than an interlude; it is a profound conscious harmony of man and the world, a…
Read MoreTo gain control of the world of space is certainly one of our tasks. The danger begins when in gaining power in the realm…
Read MoreIf we are to build something like a Sabbath economy, we must devise ways to extricate ourselves from current practices that lead to stress,…
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