Lord's Day Alliance

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Lord's Day Alliance (LDA)
American Sabbath Union
Formation1888 (1888) Washington, D.C., U.S.
PurposeTo promote the Lord's Day, Sunday, as a day of Sabbath rest
Location
Key people
Rodney Petersen (Executive Director)
Main organ
Board of Managers
AffiliationsPeople for Sunday Association of Canada

The Lord's Day Alliance (formerly known as the American Sabbath Union) is an ecumenical Christian first-day Sabbatarian organization.[1] Based in the United States and Canada, the organization was founded in 1888 by mainstream Christian denominations.[2] These Churches worked together to found the Lord's Day Alliance in order to effect change in the public sphere, specially with respect to "lobbying for the passage of Sunday-rest laws."[2] The Lord's Day Alliance publishes a biannual magazine called eSunday Magazine.[3]

Erwin Fahlbusch and Geoffrey William Bromiley write that throughout its existence, the Lord's Day Alliance, supported by labor unions, has lobbied "to prevent secular and commercial interests from hampering freedom of worship and from exploiting workers."[4] For example, the United States Congress was supported by the Lord's Day Alliance in securing "a day of rest for city postal clerks whose hours of labor, unlike those of city mail carriers, were largely unregulated."[5]

The Canadian branch of Lord's Day Alliance (now known as the People for Sunday Association of Canada) was successful in passing the Lord's Day Act in 1906, which remained in force until 1985.[6]

  1. ^ Hester, Joseph P. (23 January 2006). The Ten Commandments: A Handbook of Religious, Legal and Social Issues. McFarland. p. 165. ISBN 9781476608617.
  2. ^ a b Darrow, Clarence (2005). Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society. Ohio University Press. p. 39. ISBN 9780821416327.
  3. ^ "Sunday Magazine". Archived from the original on February 12, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ Fahlbusch, Erwin; Bromiley, Geoffrey William (2005). The Encyclopedia of Christianity. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 787. ISBN 9780802824165.
  5. ^ Fuller, Wayne E. (1 October 2010). Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America. University of Illinois Press. p. 93. ISBN 9780252091353.
  6. ^ Mencken, Henry Louis (2004). Mencken's America. Ohio University Press. p. 192. ISBN 9780821415313.