Rest Is Resistance

Like many folks, I came to know Hersey from The Nap Ministry (for me, on Instagam). This is definitely a manifesto, though for me it also reads like a sermon, and a polemic (against white supremecy and unbridled capitalism). In some ways, I "shouldn't" like this book--there's a lot of talk about praying and god (not my thing); it's got a structure like a sermon--it meanders and doesn't give the reader a lot of steady handholds. It's repetative. And yet all of these things that would usually be a negative for me work really well for what she's trying to accomplish: A strong, long-term, complex shift in thinking about our world, through the lens of what rest means for human beings. I

I loved it. Highly recommend.