Achieving rest
byEditor’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…
Honor the Sabbath
by the daily asteriskThere is the lamentable reality that many people in North America cannot take a day off from work because they cannot afford to do…
How the light gets in
by Katie Karnehm-EshI. 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…
Artificial abundance
by the daily asteriskOur modern economic system is a cruel parody of Sabbath economics. We have indeed created a situation of “scarcity” in nature because of our…
Afternoon Nap
by Marjorie MaddoxMy daughter dreams breasts, lip-synching lunch. I am the large one beside her, a sleepy parenthesis curl for her appetite. Like a sleepwalker descending…
Priorities imposed
by the daily asteriskThe poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but…
Sabbath for hard times
by Kirstin Vander Giessen-ReitsmaAll those people out there walking the roads all those years, hardly a one of them remembering the Sabbath. Who would know what day…
Remembering the Sabbath
by the daily asteriskAll those people out there walking the roads all those years, hardly a one of them remembering the Sabbath. Who would know what day…