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Tag: sabbath

  • sabbath keeping: Kierkegaard’s contribution

    In Presbyterian circles, when the idea of Sabbath observance comes up, you inevitably come up against the Presbyterian myth of the Sabbath. It goes like this: When I was a child we went to church on Sunday morning, and then again on Sunday evenings, and the rest of the day you had to rest. You…

  • Monday Sabbath (a new poem)

    Monday Sabbath The preacher lives a Monday Sabbath as the world rushes to the quotidian; the city-bus groan, office politics, classroom chaos, breakfast to go. Resist the voice that insists on Productivity! Usefulness! Preparedness! Refuse the myth of indispensability, lie that dies slowly, deserving a quick burial, oblivion. Roll from bed into a day rife…

  • sabbath and life

    I’m working on a short teaching series I’ll be leading this fall – it’s on the subject of Sabbath. I was reading in Abraham Joshua Heschel’s beautiful book The Sabbath: It’s meaning for modern man and came across this quotation, which fits nicely both with what Jesus has to say and with the broad message…