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Spring 2020
Faithful folk from a rich variety of confessional approaches affirm this creedal tenet through global Sabbath/Sunday cultural traditions of word, song, and ritual.
Fall 2019
The doorway, often used when inviting people to the life of faith in Jesus Christ, suggests entry points into the need for Sabbath: the imperative of rest, the recovery of lost focus, a corrective to our worship practices, the need for a more vital corporate life.
Spring 2019
In confessing, we acknowledge our failures. Sabbath/Sunday is where we begin to put our lives together again. In the Book of Revelation we read, “On the Lord’s Day I was in the Spirit…” (Rev. 1:10) and so begins our septenary Jubilee.
Fall 2018
Within this eSunday Magazine’s theme of Sabbath, Sunday and Worship in Transition two developmental and cultural sub-themes appear among congregations navigating the challenges to and of church life: 1) Churches, like people, have life-cycle phases, and 2) Congregations interact with each other and with other groups in specific ways.
Spring 2018
This Sunday Magazine’s cover depicts a tree growing in a barren land, fed by some deep inner spring—perhaps refreshed, as we are, by the well-deep nurturance of the Lord’s Day. We might also describe Sabbath or Sunday as a day of rest, a day for family or community, a day of joy. Walter Brueggemann writes of Sabbath as resistance—resistance to the anxiety, coercion, exclusivism, the multitasking we all do to satisfy the ever-elusive gods of productivity and competition.
Fall 2017
The struggle for access to a time of corporate worship in the United States is intertwined with fair labor practices. This year, 2018, marks the 130th anniversary of The Lord’s Day Alliance of the United States – and the 130th anniversary of this on-going struggle.
Spring 2017
Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby were not the first to laud “Gone fishin’.” They were preceded at least by Jesus, his disciples, and of course Simon Peter. It is not for nothing that fishing and discipleship are equated. Both rely on purpose, patience, and perseverance – and both revel in an appreciation of the mysteries of creation.
Fall 2016
eSunday Magazine is one way into The Lord’s Day Alliance of the U.S. Other ways are through our website, www.ldausa.org, publications, and occasional newsletters. We would like you to know how much we appreciate your interest and the faith tradition you hold. The Lord’s Day Alliance of the U.S. (LDA) is blessed to be able to deepen friendship with many like you.
Spring 2016
These words by the Rev. Dr. Nancy S. Taylor welcome us to this issue of Sunday Magazine and to this year’s conference at Boston’s Old South Church, October 27, 2016. The set of articles in this issue are drawn from the 2016 Lenten theme of “Sabbath” sponsored by the church, which included forums at the church Community Hour and a Bible Study group looking at the Lectionary texts, all focused on the theme of Sabbath. Keeping Sabbath is, of course, the thrust of the Fourth Commandment (Exodus 20:1-17; Deuteronomy 5:1-21).