In The Beginning, GOD: Creation, Culture, and the Spiritual Life, Marva J. Dawn. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2009. Summary: A series of reflections on the texts of Genesis 1-3 focused not on questions of beginnings and the controversies that surround these chapters but on what they show us of God and how this may lead us into worship. … [Read more...] about Book Review: In The Beginning, GOD, by Marva J. Dawn
Marva J. Dawn
Scholar’s Compass: Remembering Sabbath
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Exodus 20:8 (NIV) The spiritual rest which God especially intends in this commandment is that we not only cease from our labor and trade but much more—that we let God alone work in us and that in all our powers we do nothing of our own. --Martin Luther Reflection In Marva J. Dawn's Keeping the Sabbath Wholly, she tells the story of a summer of graduate school in which she had to learn three new languages for her Ph.D. at the same time, and in one shortened summer … [Read more...] about Scholar’s Compass: Remembering Sabbath