Lord's Day Alliance

{{Short description|Religious advocacy group}} {{Redirect|Sunday (magazine)|other magazines|Sunday (disambiguation)|and|Sunday Edition (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox organization |name = Lord's Day Alliance (LDA)<br><small>American Sabbath Union</small> |image = |image_border = |image_alt =  |caption = |abbreviation = |formation = {{Start date|1888}} Washington, D.C., U.S. |type =  |status =  |purpose = To promote the Lord's Day, Sunday, as a day of Sabbath rest |headquarters = |location = Atlanta, Georgia |coordinates =  |region_served = |membership = |language =  |key_people = Rodney Petersen (Executive Director) |main_organ = Board of Managers |parent_organization = |affiliations = People for Sunday Association of Canada |num_staff = |num_volunteers = |budget = |website = [https://www.risingdayministries.com/ risingdayministries.com] |remarks = }}

The '''Lord's Day Alliance''' (formerly known as the '''American Sabbath Union''') is an ecumenical Christian first-day Sabbatarian organization.<ref name="Hester2006">{{cite book|last=Hester|first=Joseph P.|title=The Ten Commandments: A Handbook of Religious, Legal and Social Issues|date=23 January 2006|publisher=McFarland|language=English|isbn=9781476608617|page=165}}</ref> Based in the United States and Canada, the organization was founded in 1888 by mainstream Christian denominations.<ref name="Darrow2005">{{cite book|last=Darrow|first=Clarence|title=Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society|year=2005|publisher=Ohio University Press|language=English |isbn=9780821416327|page=39}}</ref> 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."<ref name="Darrow2005"/> The Lord's Day Alliance publishes a biannual magazine called ''eSunday Magazine''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ldausa.org/about/sunday-magazine//|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212001039/http://ldausa.org/about/sunday-magazine/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 12, 2018|title = Sunday Magazine}}</ref>

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."<ref name="FahlbuschBromiley2005">{{cite book|last1=Fahlbusch|first1=Erwin|last2=Bromiley|first2=Geoffrey William|title=The Encyclopedia of Christianity|year=2005|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|isbn=9780802824165|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofch0001unse_t6f2/page/787 787]|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofch0001unse_t6f2/page/787}}</ref> 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."<ref name="Fuller2010">{{cite book|last=Fuller|first=Wayne E.|title=Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America|date=1 October 2010|publisher=University of Illinois Press|language=English|isbn=9780252091353|page=93}}</ref>

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.<ref name="Mencken2004">{{cite book|last=Mencken|first=Henry Louis|title=Mencken's America|year=2004|publisher=Ohio University Press|language=English|isbn=9780821415313|page=192}}</ref>

== Mission == The Lord's Day Alliance continues to "encourage all people to recognize and observe a day of Sabbath rest and to worship the risen Lord Jesus Christ, on the Lord's Day, Sunday".<ref name="LDA2017">{{cite web|url=http://www.ldausa.org/lda/about/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211152241/http://www.ldausa.org/lda/about/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=December 11, 2013|title=About|year=2017|publisher=The Lord’s Day Alliance of the U.S.|language=English|accessdate=22 June 2017}}</ref>

== Organization == The Board of Managers of the Lord's Day Alliance is composed of clergy and laity from Christian churches, including Baptist, Catholic, Episcopalian, Friends, Lutheran, Methodist, Non-Denominationalist, Orthodox, Presbyterian and Reformed traditions.<ref name="LDA2017"/>

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== External links == *[risingdayministries.com Rising Day Ministries of the Lord's Day Alliance]

Category:Sabbatarianism Category:Christian advocacy groups Category:Christian ecumenical organizations Category:1888 establishments in the United States Category:Christian organizations established in 1888