On Breathing Deeply

It's good for many things. Like survival.

This year each one of us will take seven and one-half million breaths, according to Dr. Michael Stephen’s recent book Breath Taking.¹ That amazes me.

During that same year, pastors might not keep a single sabbath. That concerns me.

Dr. Stephen notes that we don’t need to be reminded to breathe. We need no command, no religious conviction, no peer pressure.…