Wesley Blog: Taking Back Sundays

Shane at Wesley Blog writes:

On one hand, I think activity on Sundays has gotten out of hand, and Christians are the ones to blame. Many of us use Sundays to catch up on the errands we neglected to make time for during the previous week, so by the time Monday rolls around, we're exhausted.

Shane acknowledges that asking our culture to again set aside Sunday as the Lord's day would not be reasonable, but adds:

Maybe making families choose between church and other activities is not such a bad thing. Sure it would be uncomfortable, but isn't Christianity filled with stuff that makes us uncomfortable? Isn't a life of faith full of uncomfortable choices? Besides, it would keep churches from getting lazy about outreach, and it would force us to actually meet the spiritual needs of teenagers.

Keeping the sabbath is one of those commandments that too many Christians (including myself) are quick to set aside. Possibly more than any other aspect of the Abrahamic religions, the practice of keeping sabbath conflicts with present-day Western culture, in which "productivity" is often held up as the greatest virtue.