In an age of unprecedented leisure, it's surprisingly difficult to find good writing on the topic. This book does a very nice job on drawing on a variety of sources to explore the traps and promise of leisure including history, sociology, and biblical theology. Often we reduce leisure to "non-work" failing to experience the life-giving power of true rest. This pragmatic pitfall is paired with a hedonistic approach that reduces leisure to pure play. The author employs the concept of sabbath to explain how spiritual rest can fuel a life that avoids the pitfalls of pragmatism and hedonism. I used this book for a sermon series on Rest & Play and found it very helpful.