My friend and his wife were driving in the car talking about how their kids were learning the Ten Commandments at church. They wondered whether or not they too could recite the commandments off the ...

I want my children to know how to work hard. I also want them to know that hard work doesn’t define them. The stories we hear when we’re young stay with us. They define us, tell us who we are. For ...

How God’s grace turned my strict views upside down. I grew up in a Sabbatarian religion where we practiced Sabbath observance as a matter of law. My religious community was conscious of the minute ...

"Time management" is a collective fixation of the modern West. And yet, in a broader sense, we give very little thought to the structure and rhythm of our day-to-day lives. The philosopher Charles ...

The Sabbath is in decline. That’s the unmistakable message from a 1,500-person survey out last week sponsored by the Deseret News. The report compares the way Americans observe (or don’t) the ...

Find today’s readings here. The holiness of the Sabbath is a fundamental feature of Israel’s religion. The belief that every seventh day belongs to God, and that “resting with God on the seventh day” ...

When I lived on campus last summer, I had an overwhelming amount of free time on the weekends. On Friday nights, I would go to Shabbat dinners hosted by Jewish friends. We would pack into sweltering ...

Although 63% of respondents say they use it as a day of relaxation only half of Americans say religious significance of Sabbath is personally important to them The proportion of Americans who say a ...