IN the NEWS - A green Sabbath?

"Blue Dot Living, an online magazine focused on sustainable living and environmental protection, published an article on December 29, 2025, calling for the establishment of a weekly day of rest for both people and the planet, giving examples of how Sunday is being set aside in different communities for rest and family time.

Blue Dot Living expressed the following:
• “If you’re like Dot, you surely need a rest. So let me share with you some wonderful news. The best thing we can do the planet just might be … nothing. Nothing? Nothing! Jonathan Schorsch is urging all of

us to join him in the Green Sabbath Project, a mass movement to observe a weekly day of rest, a modern version of what the ancients practiced: No work, no driving or flying, no scrolling our phones or anything technology, no shopping, no building. Instead, walk, sing, play. Eat with friends, food prepared ahead of time. Gather in community. Rest.”
• “This isn’t necessarily about God or religion, insists Schorsch, ‘it is merely common-sense self-care for oneself and our planetary home.’ And it just might help ease the strain on our planet, something we’re already seeing around the world. On Sundays, Mexico City allows tens of thousands of bicyclists, skateboarders, rollerbladers, parents, kids, and other pedestrians to take over more than a 30-mile area around the city’s historic district. Bogotá, Colombia, has similarly introduced car-free Sundays that the population savors, while England’s Playing Out program gives the streets back to parents and children for play.”
• “It is not just humans who need rest. Our Earth cries out for it, too. As Schorsch puts it, ‘A green Sabbath restores Shabbat to its original intention of commemorating the creation of the world.”

Blue Dot Living insists that a weekly day of rest “has nothing to do with God or religion,” but rather with self-care, well-being, and environmental healing. This type of reasoning redefines the Sabbath as a humanitarian and ecological tool, making it more appealing to the general public and reducing the likelihood of resistance to this proposal. This is how the world is being prepared to accept Sunday as the official day of rest: first, by disconnecting the Sabbath from the Word of God and presenting it as a matter of “common sense.”

The language emphasizes a “mass movement,” “gathering in community,” and “weekly day of rest.” 

This represents social participation. The article then gives samples about how this can play out in society through Sunday street closures, Sunday car-free events, and Sunday community gatherings. Essentially, Sunday is being elevated as the day when commerce stops, movement is restricted, and collective rest is encouraged. This call is describing a return to Sunday laws, but stripped of explicit religious language. However, the objective remains the same: to establish Sunday as the default day of rest without direct reference to religion.

But in vain they do worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. Matthew 15:9." 

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