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Sabbath Keeping
Author(s): Donna Schaper (Author)
- Publisher: Cowley Publications
- Publication Date: 25 Jan. 1999
- Language: English
- Print length: 110 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781561011636
- ISBN-13: 1561011630
Book Description
Sabbath Keeping is a collection of ten meditations, each exploring a different aspect of keeping the sabbath and ending with a prayer.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘We are desperate for rest in a culture that seems to reward only effort. We understand ourselves as overworked, but in a way we are proud of our exhaustion and our failure to honor the Sabbath.’ “These words by Donna Schaper in her new book Sabbath Keeping make a good beginning, for we are indeed deeply confused about time, bound as we are by a misguided allegiance to schedules and work that drives us beyond even fatigue to something worse, the loss of our very souls. “Schaper’s volume focuses on the Sabbath’s unique role in sanctifying time. . . . Schaper also reminds us that the third commandment is an invitation to joy. Indeed, . . . there is always an expectation of joy lurking behind time-time seen as a gift from God, as a part of God’s mysterious grace
About the Author
Donna Schaper has been an ordained minister and activist for over fifty years. She has written thirty-nine books and hundreds of essays, features, and op-eds, including a humor series, “The Dolly Mama Does Religion.” She has also worked with endowments for churches and nonprofits both large and small. For a decade she wrote an environmental column for the National Catholic Reporter eco-blog. For the last two decades, she has written daily devotionals for the United Church of Christ website that reaches 35,000 readers. She currently hosts a monthly conversation on the Brooklyn Rail site, called the Brooklyn Trail.
