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In this thought-provoking volume, Andrew Blosser draws readers into an odd investigation: reconsidering our culture's false equation of work with life; and re-centering ourselves, personally and collectively, on an opposite conviction: that the point of life is to observe the goodness around us in charitable communion with others. In fact, our work and social-economic policies ought to enable and serve the higher values of inoperativity, rest, and Sabbath. Far from promoting sloth or passivity, Blosser shows how a critical, theologically grounded ethics of doing nothing is essential for animating the rest-focused activism and practical changes that addressing systemic challenges like poverty and climate change will require. Insightful, enlightening, readable; highly recommended. -- Christine Firer Hinze, Professor of Theological Ethics, Fordham University. Blosser's book offers a rich and sophisticated analysis of rituals of rest that couldn't be timelier or more thought-provoking for us exhausted, overwhelmed moderns. -- Jonathan Schorsch, Universitat Potsdam, and Founding Director of the Green Sabbath Project

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Andrew Blosser has taught religion and ethics at Carthage College and Loyola University Chicago. He is currently visiting assistant professor in the theology department at Marquette University. While completing his PhD in theology at Loyola University Chicago, Blosser worked as a minister and advocate for the homeless community in Chicago.

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