Remember the Sabbath
Ragan Sutterfield
February 22, 2026
Christians have often been poor at practicing the Sabbath, imagining it to be a Jewish practice for which Jesus showed apparent disregard.
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Ragan Sutterfield
Ragan Sutterfield (M.Div., Virginia Theological Seminary) is ordained in the Episcopal Church and serves a parish in his native Arkansas. His writing has appeared in a variety of magazines, including The Christian Century, Sojourners, The Oxford American, Christianity Today, and Books & Culture. He is the author of Wendell Berry and the Given Life (Franciscan Media). Ragan works to live the good and given life in partnership with his wife, Emily, and daughters, Lillian and Lucia.
Human Family, Holy Relationships
Ragan Sutterfield
September 7, 2022
Membership to the human family is a reality in which our fates are in common because our life is in common. To save one part, we must save all.
Love and Action: Caring for Creation
Ragan Sutterfield
September 17, 2021
If we are to love as God has loved us, then our lives must involve renunciation so that we can make room for the rest of the creation.
Learning to Live Poorer: A Meditation for Lent
Ragan Sutterfield
October 3, 2020
“If we really want to be at peace,” environmentalist Wendell Berry writes, “we will have to waste less, spend less, use less, want less, need less.” Lent is the time to put this into practice.
Wendell Berry on Humility
Ragan Sutterfield
May 15, 2020
When I was young, my family took a trip to the Epcot Center at Disney World.
Honoring the Sabbath, Honoring Creation
Ragan Sutterfield
April 14, 2019
So it is that the Sabbath, if practiced well, is no refuge from our everyday lives, but a reorientation that should come to permeate them.
Body and Earth: Reclaiming the Connection
Ragan Sutterfield
April 17, 2017
All good work should connect us—bodies and souls, creatures and creation.