Midwinter Sabbath Rest

Originally published here - Vibrant Faith Articles. 

February is a dark, gray, slushy time of year in the Midwest. In my hometown Chicago, the days seem longer than they were in January, and the promise of more sunlight in March seems still-distant. In ministry it can feel like a “gray” time of the year as well. I’m a bookworm, so when the midwinter doldrums hit, I often turn to writers. This winter I’m reading two very different books: Embracing Rhythms of Work and Rest: From Sabbath to Sabbatical and Back Again by Ruth Haley Barton, and This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories that Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley. They are very different in their writing styles, but in the end, there is at least one shared message…

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