Years ago, when I first studied Isaiah 58, I found its call to honor the Sabbath mingled with the call to do away with violence and injustice odd. I suppose that I had grown up thinking of Sabbath-keeping as a more arcane and less relevant rule. The older I get, the more integral that the idea of Sabbath — the need for rest, limits, and structure in human existence — is to the whole enterprise of moral formation and an ethical life. Here is Norman Wirzba reflecting on this subject in the creation story:
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