You pose a good question for the days between Mother's Day and Father's Day. This passage from Exodus 20:12 (and Deuteronomy 5:16) is the Fifth Commandment by the Jewish and some Protestant countings, ...

May, June, July. Mother's Day, Father's Day, Independence Day. The Fourth Commandment. What does the Fourth Commandment have to do with this progression of holidays? Look at what it says: "Honor your ...

We live in a time-crunched world. Parents whip up a quick breakfast for bleary-eyed children before bundling them into cars to be dropped off at day-care and school. Some grab a drive-through burrito ...

Workaholics be warned. The Sabbath asserts that people have the right to limit their work, thus offering "a balance to the bonds of boundless labor, an opportunity one day a week to shut down the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

The great 19th century Hebrew essayist and philosopher Echad Ha’Am wrote that more than the people of Israel kept (watched over) the Sabbath, the Sabbath kept (watched over) the people of Israel.