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+ Presbyterians for Earth Care offers "Sabbath and the Care of Creation" byTerry Chapman (PDF)

Excerpt 1: "Everything depends on human beings embracing these two essential Sabbath truths: God paused for breath and so should we, because when we do, we remember who we are."

Excerpt 2: "Jurgen Moltmann sums up the centrality of Sabbath, “'The goal and completion of every Jewish and Christian doctrine of creation must be the doctrine of the Sabbath; for on the Sabbath and through the Sabbath God ‘completed’ his creation, and on the Sabbath and through it, men and women perceive as God’s creation the reality in which they live and which they themselves are.'”