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Saturday, November 10, 2012

The case for a day of rest




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The soul’s Sabbath



The world today really needs the perspective, the rest, the enjoyment that Sabbath gives,” Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman says in an interview with Sally Quinn, making the case for a weekly day of rest. In this season of Congressional recess, family trips and controversy over whether or not President Obama should take a vacation, why does rest matter? Is vacation spiritual?
POSTED BY ON FAITH ON AUG 16, 2011 3:32 PM





The Sabbath we all need can look different for all of us

Sabbath is a method or a value more than it is a rigid recipe or fixed practice.
POSTED BY BRAD HIRSCHFIELD ON AUG 18, 2011 10:03 PM



Even God rests

Our human spirits have a finite capacity to carry stress, issues and problems.
POSTED BY ON AUG 18, 2011 10:31 PM



Protestant work ethic and the Jewish Sabbath

I had the privilege of previewing Senator Lieberman’s new book on the sabbath and it convicted this too-busy Baptist that a “weekly” Sabbath of rest is an important biblical concept.
POSTED BY RICHARD LAND ON AUG 18, 2011 10:09 PM



Sabbath rest, humans and humility

When it comes to rest, God leads by example.
POSTED BY JANET EDWARDS ON AUG 18, 2011 10:13 PM



Not resting --waking up

The Sabbath grew from the conviction that things need not be as they are.
POSTED BY SHARON BROUS ON AUG 18, 2011 10:17 PM



Spiritual rest

The Sabbath rest, if really practiced, is not duty, but the product of passion and intellect. Such rest waits for the deeper things of God.
POSTED BY JOHN MARK REYNOLDS ON AUG 17, 2011 5:12 PM



A holy weekend?

What was once the Holy Sabbath is now the weekend
POSTED BY ADIN STEINSALTZ ON AUG 17, 2011 4:08 PM



Spirituality: It’s only human!

The believers’ habit of passing off ‘emotional and psychological well-being’ under the label of ‘spirituality’ is an attempt to claim this kind of well-being as, at heart, a religious phenomenon.
POSTED BY PAULA KIRBY ON AUG 17, 2011 3:59 PM



Rest is a human need

At ten-years-old, while still an Orthodox Jew, I wondered why an all-powerful God had to take a day off each week to rest.
POSTED BY HERB SILVERMAN ON AUG 17, 2011 3:48 PM



The ideal Sabbath

Shabbat is the goal of the work week, not the pause that makes a week more productive.
POSTED BY JACK MOLINE ON AUG 16, 2011 3:17 PM



Rest (as we know it) a product of progressive values

Rest, vacation, R&R -- call it what you will, it’s very important to keeping an even keel. But the benefits are psychological, and to some degree physiological. They’re not spiritual.
POSTED BY TOM FLYNN ON AUG 16, 2011 3:22 PM



How to rest (Hint: Step away from the Blackberry...)

Instead of thinking of time away from routine obligations as merely escape, think of it as the freedom to contemplate the nature and harmony of the things of the spirit, and to experience the rewarding effect such a state of thought can have on your attitude and health.
POSTED BY RUSS GERBER ON AUG 16, 2011 3:31 PM


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