Tag: Leisure
Take Me Out to the Ballgame: How Baseball Can Restore Our Senses and Our Souls
Rest, respite, relaxation. Leisure. Many people equate rest and leisure exclusively with bodily rest, kicking back in a recliner after a long day at the office, or spending a week on a beach, cabana boys bringing you drinks – and that does have its time and place.
Leisurely Rambles: Hiking & Birding as Sacred Play
A few years ago, I was privileged to stay in a grand old Virginia inn along the Shenandoah. As I stepped through the stately oak doors and entered the lobby, it felt as if time had paused in history’s Regency period.
Vortex: A Short Story
“I can’t go camping with you guys, Claire,” I stutter. “I don’t have any gear. I – I would just get in your way.”
The Curse of Gnosticism and the Cure of Play: Why Leisure is Essential for Spiritual Health
Many Christians raised in American evangelicalism struggle to practice leisure. Between the endless needs of a destitute world, our relative material wealth compared with the world’s poor, and an impoverished anthropology that says true Christians must perennially function beyond their human limitations in order to be radically committed to God, the practice of rest is rife with shame. Leisure is tantamount to backsliding.
