Sustaining Call: Practicing Sabbath

Winter, 2007 (vol. 120, no. 4)
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Regular Features In This Issue

        (Purpose Statements for each regular feature.)

Column

Article

Author

The Back Deck Sabbath Shift Marjory Bankson
Book Bites Sunday Was Not a Day of Rest David Davies
Relational Bible Study  What's the Rush? Nancy Boyle
Film Pics Into Great Silence Rob Johnston & Cathy Barsotti
On The Homefront Entering Into Rest Jen Lemen
Building Community  Watch the Rhythms Mark Nilson
Call and Response A Conversation with LIse Luttgens  
Relational Resources    
Church and Call A New Kind of Service: An Interview with Cindy Bullock Doug Wysockey-Johnson
At the Door editorial Sabbath Preparation Doug Wysockey-Johnson

Special Features In This Issue

Article

Author

Opening Lines

As Close as a Loving Father Kenneth Arnold When my son Nicholas was an infant and cried to be fed during the night, my wife and I took turns with him...
Being Sabbath for One Another Melissa Capers A friend comes to visit: Jean is shell-shocked and shaken by the sudden dissolution of her marriage....
Thoughts on Christmas Michelle Gates I have been thinking a great deal about what an affluent society we live in. We often live both personally and ...
The Child of Missionaries: Then and Now Thandiwe Gobledale I watch the red earth puff up in little clouds around my pink sneakers as I climb the hill. My friend Themba ...
The Tree: Paradigm of Contemplation and Manifestation Kent Ira Groff How can we cultivate the art of listening beneath the surface of family dynamics, corporate scandals, political angling,
Listen to Me Under My Words Ted Loder O God,
I come to you now...
Messages from the Pews Margret Maloney I have been an active member of four churches in my life. In three of these, I have listened to messages from the pulpit...
Everything Must Change Tour An Interview with Brian McLaren The work of Sam Shoemaker has been important in my own spiritual life. His poem “I Stand By The Door” ...
No Two Alike Leigh McLeroy “Raku” is a Japanese word which means enjoyment or pleasure. Four hundred-and-some-odd years ago...
The Last Dropout Bill Milliken In March 2006, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation issued a scathing report, The Silent Epidemic:...
Answering the Call: It Is In Your Hands Mildred Mitchell It was my turn to bring a message and/or lead the meditation with our church group this Sunday...
FAW and Everything Must Change Tour Tiffany Montavon Faith At Work is a sponsor of Brian McLaren's EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE Tour. This is more than a book tour...
The Beech Leaves: A Meditation Kathleen Staudt For years, I have gone on retreat to quiet, prayed-in places near my home in Maryland, places surrounded by aging forests...
Centering Practice Susan Wilkes “JENGA!” my son yelled as the carefully constructed tower of small wooden blocks crashed to the ground. ...
Wonder at the Crossroads Joni Woelfel My story of an Encore Round of Call in my life’s work at the age of 55 began the April of 2007 ...

Cover Image is the work of Susan Due Pearcy,
The Other Side,
31"x22" monotype on handmade paper, 1994.

Read about Susan's "Reflections."

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