Reflections: Discover how reclaiming this forgotten commandment can bring rest, joy and well-being to your life.

One of the most foundational, but increasingly forgotten, principles in Scripture is God’s command to honor the Sabbath: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy…” (Exodus 20:8). While Christians ...

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 ...

With Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur just around the corner, I revisit perhaps the most important U.S. Supreme Court decision in a generation for Shabbat observers. For so many decades, extending more ...

Three divisions of U. S. citizens are compelled by their religious beliefs to abstain from all work and business from sunset Friday until sunset Saturday: orthodox Jews, Seventh-Day Adventists, ...

“Remember the Sabbath day,” decrees the Fourth Commandment. “When you’re a pastor, how could you possibly forget?” is the snappy 21st-century comeback. Yet this command presents a special dilemma for ...

In my circles it used to be the custom on Sunday mornings that the pastor would sit on the platform as the pianist played a prelude and the saints found their seats. I’d watch them, nodding and ...

“We can give people their weekends back,” James Griffin recently promised in a talk that went viral on X. The thing is, Griffin isn’t an employer. He’s a pastor. Of a Christian church. He was ...