When unemployment threatens to sink us, God keeps our heads above water. When I was a swimming instructor, I spent a lot of time trying to get little kids to float. I would tell them to put their ears ...

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In a column about religion, I should be spending more time teaching about what religions believe. I will try to fix that this year. Q: What, precisely, did God do on the seventh day? I like to rest, ...

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

It was many years ago when a talented BYU football player informed me and thereby the world that he would forgo playing in the NFL to teach math at a high school. Next thing, the Los Angeles Times and ...

The debate over which day of the week should be treated as the Sabbath Day rages on. Various arguments have been advanced to support the varying inclinations in thinking. In some of my previous ...

Can the Feds Really Prosecute the Minnesota Church Protesters? What States Can Do When Sacred Spaces Are Violated This Way to the Socialists’ Ball Hubris Is Undoing Trump’s Second Term Audio By ...

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 ...

THE Fourth Commandment doesn’t specifically mention TweetDeck or Facebook. Observing the Sabbath 3,000 years ago was more about rest and going easy on one’s family — servants and oxen included. But if ...

"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 ...