This is the final post in a series of posts adapted from a white paper prepared for Wheaton College’s Theology of Vocation Project. For the rest of the posts, go here. For three reasons, rest consistent with the Sabbath commandment is integral, and not ancillary, to the discussion of vocation and calling. First, the Sabbath commandment can infuse our work and other…
Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this series The Sabbath commandment not only provides rest for a restless world, but is an essential aspect of the conversation about vocation. Indeed, understanding the Sabbath correctly can help us to understand vocation – and even that dimension of vocation that we call work – better, as Marva Dawn argues in Keeping…
Part 1 of this series; Part 2 of this series Just as the Christian faith provides us with a strong foundation from which to work out the various dimensions of calling, work, and vocation, it also provides us with a strong foundation from which to address the topic of rest. The Christian tradition doesn’t stop with validating rest, leisure, and…
See the first post in this series here. My students and I are not the only ones struggling to understand and experience a sense of agency with regard to the way we spend time. Political, economic, and technological developments of the past few decades have given us the illusion of control over our time while simultaneously, if slowly, stripping us…
This is the first in a series of posts adapted from a white paper prepared for Wheaton College’s Theology of Vocation Project It is nothing short of ironic that I was asked to produce a white paper on the topic of rest. The news that I had been paired, in Wheaton’s Theology of Vocation Project, with this particular topic elicited…
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