But members of other religious traditions deal with work-worship conflicts on a much more regular basis.
That leaves us with precious little time to resolve even the immediate issues that demand our attention, like strained marriages and conflicts in worship communities.
Since my own family was conflicted about worship, I stayed in love with the celebrations and the music and the food, but I kept my distance from the religious part of worshipping any kind of absolute authority.
The group argued that the exercise amounted to worship of the sun, which conflicts with its religious teachings.
The sexual charge one feels in otherwise chaste portraits comes, I think, from her conflicting impulses to worship and to despoil.
But some Chinese Catholics still shun it and, risking punishment, worship "underground".In Zhujiahe, the conflict between faith and party-defined patriotism came to a head in 2000 when Pope John Paul II declared 120 Catholics who had died in China between 1648 and 1930 to be saints.
It's a fascinating position for me: as a minister with a deep love for congregational life, I know every reason for investing my family's time and relationships in a faith community... and as a soccer mom, I have obligations in support of my children that conflict with weekly worship.
Elections are traditionally held on Tuesdays because farmers in early agrarian America needed time to travel to and from the polls that didn't conflict with market and worship days.
The market-shrine complex encouraged surrounding tribes to put aside their conflicts periodically and to visit and worship the deities of the Kaʿbah; but such worship, as in most complex societies, could not replace either the particularistic worship of small groups or the competing religious practices of other regional centres, such as al-Ṭāʾif.
Pastoral leadership issues, finances and worship changes were the leading sources of conflict reported by congregational leaders in the 2008-2009 U.S. Congregational Life Survey.
Inevitably, however, there arose conflicts—of doctrine and jurisdiction, of worship and pastoral practice, and of social and political strategy among the three sources, as well as between equally "apostolic" bishops.
