Because of the modern rhythms of work that are mediated through personal computers and phones, people, in the words of one cultural commentator, “leave the office, but they do not leave their work. They remain attached by a kind of electronic leash—like a dog.”46 More often than not, our “days off” are days where we are spatially at home, but emotionally and mentally at work. Do these “days off” constitute a Sabbath day? A biblical Sabbath is a day when we are spatially, and emotionally, not at work. “Days off” are actually, in the words of Eugene Peterson, “bastard Sabbaths.”47 They are days
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