In his first interview since Ozzy's death, the Black Sabbath guitarist also previews "World Alone" from the new solo album he ...

In a high school sociology course called “Man in Society”—the very title dates me—one assignment was to dream up hobbies we might pursue in middle age. We were told that with the explosion of ...

Find today’s readings here. The holiness of the Sabbath is a fundamental feature of Israel’s religion. The belief that every seventh day belongs to God, and that “resting with God on the seventh day” ...

Tony Iommi can be forgiven for not remembering 1987 in complete detail. He was using a large amount of cocaine, but there was also an incredible amount to remember – and some of it didn’t make much ...

When Black Sabbath were at their best, no one else sounded like them. But at their worst, they sounded like these two bands.

You sometimes encounter the charge that the Catholic Church wrongly "changed the sabbath" from Saturday to Sunday. This claim is often made by Seventh-Day Adventists, for example. But even if one ...

In the immensely lengthy and detailed account of the making of the Tabernacle, the Torah tells the story twice: first (Exodus 25:1-31:17) as Divine instruction, then (Exodus, chapters 35-40) as human ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Going offline and unplugging each week reconnects us with something ancient.