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What is it?
What is it?
In the over-busy lives of Americans is their time for rest and re-creation, not just not just taking time off but recalling God’s activity in creating the world and taking time to show gratitude for that creation and well as showing gratitude to God by enjoying that creation in a proper way?
"Unless one learns how to relish the taste of Sabbath ... one will be unable to enjoy the taste of eternity in the world to come."
Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy."
Exodus 20:8
"Then he said to them, 'The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.'"
Mark 2:27
"There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his."
Hebrews 4:9-11
Starting Questions
Starting Questions
How can I help my students - and myself - to resist a frenetic life? Could I not assign homework over the weekend? Or...assign it, but have it due on Moodle on Saturday or Sunday by 7:00pm so they can't stay up late working on it?
Is there some way of creating a pattern of rest in my classroom?
Biblically, sabbath was connected to remembering one's emancipation from slavery. What am I enslaved to? What are my students enslaved to? How can we be freed from these things in my classroom? What if my classroom "cell phone policy" is phrased, not with language of prohibition, but as a sabbath - an emancipation from an enslavement to the screen?
Biblically, sabbath was not just about "ceasing," it was to be re-creative: recreational. How can I create a playfulness in my class?
Additional Resources
Additional Resources
The following is a list of teacher-generated ideas of ways that this practice could be implemented in the classroom or school culture.
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