For many, it’s virtually impossible to set aside an entire day for rest free from responsibilities to work and family. But on the verge of burnout a few years ago, I began to practice a Sabbath.

Sabbath was not designed by God for isolated individuals but as a reset for the community. Beyond the laws governing the weekly day of rest, scriptural Sabbath practice included a regular rhythm ...

It is such a churchy word. Maybe some of you have it all figured out, but I often feel like the notion of Sabbath rest is unattainable in today’s fast-paced, modern world. Barbara Brown Taylor ...

Even as religious adherence waned and Sabbath observance plummeted in Christian societies after the Second World War, the setting aside of a special day once a week – 24 hours of rest ...

And the Sabbath is a time when you’re supposed to stop acting on the world. You’re supposed to stop doing things to make things. You’re supposed to let the world rest, as well as you.

People of faith regard the Sabbath not just as a day of rest, but also of worship; for so it was designed by Almighty God. But people, being perverse and wayward, has ever sought, and indeed have ...

He commands them to refuse the slavery of constant work in their own land. God makes the Sabbath rest foundational to the identity of Israel as His people. Beyond being a Judeo-Christian religious ...