With the end of the school year, we come again to summer, to a time of vacation and rest, when we think of beaches and fireworks, grilling outside and going to summer festivals. And for St. Stephen’s, this year is full of anticipation and renewal, with activities and opportunities throughout the …
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Sabbath and Peace
In the list of commands God gave to Moses to share with the Hebrew people, they made rest one of them. A command to rest weekly. A holy pattern. And that same pattern was to work at every scale. Every seventh day, then every seventh year. A whole year of rest. God also invites us to associate …
Sabbath and Anxiety
There is a kind of revealing irony in the most common question people ask when they hear you are going on Sabbatical: What are you going to do? Because “doing” and otherwise being productive is antithetical to what it is for: rest and renewal. Sabbatical is an extended Sabbath, when we rest – and …