Sayers on Work: What about the Sabbath?

June 11th, 2010 | 1 min read

Dorothy Sayers says that work is what we were put on earth to do.

And, personally, I want to agree with her. But supposing one accepts that definition of work, how then do we understand the Sabbath?

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, National Review, Comment, Books & Culture, and Christianity Today. He is a contributing editor with Plough and a contributing writer at the Dispatch. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.

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Sayers on Work: What about the Sabbath?

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