Marva Dawn, author of Keeping the Sabbath Wholly,
Ken Shigematsu • God in My Everything: How an Ancient Rhythm Helps Busy People Enjoy God
If you observe a sabbath, this feeling is not unfamiliar. You are well-acquainted with what others think of as the awkward restraints of just being . You understand its essential, restorative purpose — and marvel at others’ allergy to it. Why are we so terrified of stillness? To be still is an invitation to reckon with our smallness, our
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Sabbaticals seem perfectly tailored to today’s climate of work weariness, but they’re a very old idea. Evyatar Marienberg, a religious-studies professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told me that they are conceptually linked to the Sabbath, the weekly day of rest. But they likely initially derived from the Old Testament notion... See more