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Sabbath for Academics
Last week, I was in Mundelein, IL for InterVarsity staff meetings. The theme of the meetings was spiritual formation, and Gordon Smith was our main speaker. (ESN members may recognize his name because we recommend his book Courage & Calling
as part of our core bibliography.)
He was speaking of spiritual disciplines, and described Sabbath rest as one of the most important, not only for its benefit, but also because, well, observing the Sabbath is a command from God (Exodus 20:8). I asked him about students and faculty who are involved with InterVarsity and ESN: their lives are consumed with busy-ness, the universities and colleagues urge them to do more and more, and the cultures of their institutions and disciplines ignore the idea of Sabbath: how should we counsel them about the Sabbath? Read the rest of this entry »
