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What would you do for twenty-four hours if the only criteria were to pursue your deepest joy? Dan Allender’s lyrical book about the Sabbath expels the myriad myths about this “day of rest,” starting with the one that paints the Sabbath as a day of forced quiet, spiritual exercises, and religious devotion and attendance. This, he says, is at odds with the ancient tradition of Sabbath as a day of...

another day and not the Sabbath. In fact, if we enter the Sabbath with joy, then it will spill its abundance into the other six days, thus keeping us from indulging in idolatrous overwork that leads to even more intense indulgence in riotous pleasure. The Sabbath is the kind of delight that leads to life. This introduction was written in an orphanage that has morphed into a conference grounds on the outskirts of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. I was speaking at a conference with dear friends