Quaker Life, Sabbath, Fall 2023

Purchase a single copy of the Fall 2023 issue of Quaker Life: A mosaic of Friendly living on the theme of Sabbath. Authors for this edition include Katherine Murray, Julie Rudd, Paul Graseck, Hannah Lutz, Tom Palmer, Emily Provence, Kelly Kellum, Phil Baisley, Katie Terrell, and a book review by Lynn Peery Mills. All of our authors in this Sabbath-themed issue of Quaker Life agree that setting aside time for rest, reflection, and renewal is difficult—not only setting aside an entire day, as the words of Moses command, but even a portion of an hour. Yet they also agree that such time, whether on Sunday, an alternate weekday, or a small portion of time throughout the day, isn’t simply a legalistic observance but a practice with deep benefit for our souls. Several of our authors consider the ways that they’ve discovered to find Sabbath time. Katherine Murray writes about her twin discoveries that she actually has more time than she thinks, and that it is God—and not her checkbook—which i