How the analog “trend” is pointing us toward Sabbath.

Rembrandt van Rijn. The Return of the Prodigal Son. c. 1668–1669, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

The Greek word anthrakia and what it taught me about Peter’s restoration to Jesus.

The Greek word for “lonely place” here is eremos (ἔρημος).
It means wilderness, desert, and a solitary, uncultivated place.

In the ancient world, people avoided the eremos.

Ordinary citizens saw it as quiet, desolate, dangerous, and exposed, and being there often signaled that you were abandoned or lost. But Jesus often withdrew there.