Here is a great review of Viral Hope, a book by Ecclesia Press that I contributed to and has just been released this month. Check it out!
Here is a great review of Viral Hope, a book by Ecclesia Press that I contributed to and has just been released this month. Check it out!
This question was posed on a friend’s blog recently:
I so appreciate her honest pastoral, personal, and maternal response, and I am posting an excerpt here:
She concludes with this:
Thank you, Susan, for sharing yours and Joshua’s journey with us.
“The Sabbath, I said, is not only an idea. It is also something you keep. With other people.”
- Judith Shulevitz
This is an excellent post by Lavonne Neff, one of my new favorite reads. Like her, I commend Abraham Heschel’s book on the Sabbath to anyone, and hearing her rank this new offering as second to his in the must-read category certainly gets my attention.Unlike her, I have never been a part of a faith community that takes the Sabbath seriously. I have been with people who don’t even mention the idea apart from some Sunday School lessons given to children, as well as with people for whom the Sabbath has evolved to a verb, as in “I am sabbathing today”, with the emphasis on the “I”.
The understanding of the Sabbath as an individual pursuit in contrast with a communal celebration has bothered me. Shulevitz’s book appears to address this, and I am eagerly placing my Amazon order now.