Achieving rest
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2012, Brett Beasley explores what he’s…
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Honor the Sabbath
There is the lamentable reality that many people in North America cannot take a day off from work because they cannot afford to do…
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How the light gets in
I. I drive south from Fort Wayne—Vera Bradley, Fried chicken, Huggy Bear Motel, Pilot Gas—while the radio stations fade, one by one, into sermons…
Read MoreArtificial abundance
Our modern economic system is a cruel parody of Sabbath economics. We have indeed created a situation of “scarcity” in nature because of our…
Read MoreAfternoon Nap
My daughter dreams breasts, lip-synching lunch. I am the large one beside her, a sleepy parenthesis curl for her appetite. Like a sleepwalker descending…
Read MorePriorities imposed
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but…
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Sabbath for hard times
All those people out there walking the roads all those years, hardly a one of them remembering the Sabbath. Who would know what day…
Read MoreRemembering the Sabbath
All those people out there walking the roads all those years, hardly a one of them remembering the Sabbath. Who would know what day…
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