A new national survey conducted for the Deseret News finds that Americans don’t pay as much attention to the Sabbath as we used to. Excerpt: Half of U.S. adults today (50 percent) say the Sabbath has ...

forward to a time of much needed rest and relaxation. All kinds of recreational possibilities open up, including fishing trips, boating expeditions, and attendance at big sporting events. Friday to ...

A new book by the right-wing activist, who was murdered in September, has moments of seriousness, beauty, and cross-partisan ...

My instructor in Sabbath-keeping was not a professor or a spiritual director, but a foreman at the East Chicago Inland Steel plant named Mike Paddock. His wife was the treasurer of the tiny ...

To love Judaism is to know how much the Sabbath matters. But neither knowledge nor love is quite enough to move many Jews, perhaps most Jews, to observance, or even to the level of observance they ...

As part of this month's spiritual focus on Sabbath-keeping, which is the July chapter of Flunking Sainthood, I've been thinking about what makes for “good shabbos,” as a traditional greeting says. I ...

In a gentle, concise style, Baab (A Renewed Spirituality) recommends a weekly day of rest as a gift from God that teaches Christians about grace. Although rules and puritanical solemnity have ...

I used to think resting from work was selfish, until I considered the example of Jesus. Flannery O’Connor has this little throwaway line where she speaks of a priest who is “unimaginative and ...

Americans have difficulty doing nothing. That probably is a legacy from our ancestors, who wouldn't have settled North America so quickly if they'd embraced the idea of spending some time doing ...

I didn't get serious about Sabbath until I became a parent. But it wasn’t like I had somehow grown more wise or spiritual as a new mom, or even because I wanted to set a good example for my daughter.

JUDY VALENTE, correspondent: There was a time in America when Sundays meant a day for worship, for leisure, for spending time with family and friends. But that was before the advent of round-the-clock ...