CHAPTER 6
1 . Christopher de Vinck, The Power of the Powerless (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1988). Used by permission.
CHAPTER 7
1 . Rob Stitch, Tom Gleisner, and Santo Cilario, Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry (London: Atlantic Books, 2004), 74.
2 . John Ortberg, “Spiritual Disciplines for Leaders,” CCN Broadcast, June 15, 2004.
3 . From MR. BROWN CAN MOO! CAN YOU? by Dr. Seuss, copyright TM & copyright by Dr. Seuss Enterprises L. P., 1970, renewed 1998. Used by permission of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
CHAPTER 8
1 . John Calvin via Dr. Klaus Bockmuehl’s 1988 Regent College Lectures on the Decalogue.
2 . Excerpt from The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien. Copyright ©1954, 1965 by J. R. R. Tolkien. Copyright © renewed 1982 by Christopher R. Tolkien, Michael H. R. Tolkien, John F. R. Tolkien, and Priscilla M. A. R. Tolkien. Copyright © renewed 1993 by Christopher R. Tolkien, Michael H. R. Tolkien, John F. R. Tolkien, and Priscilla M. A. R. Tolkien. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. (Thank you to my good friend and brother-in-arms, Greg Charyna, for drawing my attention to this passage.)
3 . Lauren Winner, Mudhouse Sabbath (Brewster, MA: Paraclete, 2003).
CHAPTER 9
1 . C. S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (London: Puffin Books, 1978), 148–49.
2 . Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath (New York: Farrar, Straus, &Giroux, 2001), 74.
CHAPTER 10
1 . Nell Boyce, “In a Hurry to Slow Life’s Clock,” U.S. News & World Report, January 29, 2003, 74–5.
CHAPTER 11
1 . Dorothy Bass, Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000), 105.
2 . Thomas B. Costain, The Three Edwards (New York: Buccaneer Books, 1994).
3 . Ed Sissman, cited in Gordon McDonald, The Life God Blesses:Weathering the Storms of Life that Threaten the Soul (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1994), 114.
CHAPTER 12
1 . Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years (New York: Harcourt, 1954), 15.
2 . Wayne Muller, Sabbath: Restoring the Sacred Rhythm of Rest (New York: Bantam, 1999), 84.
3 . Wendell Berry, “A Purification,” cited in Dorothy Bass, Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000), 93–4.
4 . See the popular website on synesthesia— http://www.macalester.edu/~psych/whathap/UBNRP/synesthsia/intro.html
5 . The early church changed Sabbath observance from Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, to Sunday, the Lord’s Day, as a commemoration of Christ’s Sunday morning resurrection.
6 . Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath (New York: Farrar, Straus, &Giroux, 2001), 74, 83.
CHAPTER 14
1 . A. J. Conyers, The Eclipse of Heaven: The Loss of Transcendence and Its Effect on Modern Life. (Chicago: St. Augustine's Press, 1999).
EPILOGUE
1 . David Wells, “Preservation of the Laetoli Footprints,” Airlines:Canada’s Premier Airport Magazine, July 2004, 67.
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