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The Sundays were an English alternative rock band, formed in Bristol. The band's lineup consisted of lead vocalist Harriet Wheeler, guitarist David Gavurin, bassist Paul Brindley, and drummer Patrick Hannan.
Aug 27, 2004 · Before Sundays became just another excuse for credit card duties, they were wholly unlike the other six days of the week. "Creepy," according to Andrew Collins, author of Where Did It All Go...
- The Importance of The First Day Starts in Scripture.
- The Early History of Worship Is Not The Same as Our Sunday Morning Traditions.
- Sunday Had Typological significance.
- Sunday Became A Day of Rest Under Constantine.
- The Mood and Practices of Sunday Changed Over time.
- The History of Sunday Has Been Shaped by Sabbatarianism.
- Language Plays An Important Role in Applying Scripture.
- Consider Their ways. Imitate Their Faith.
Scripture reports that the New Testament church gathered to worship on Sunday (Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:2; Rev. 1:10). But Scripture doesn’t use the word Sunday, a name associated with sun worship (12–14). Instead, the early church spoke of Sunday as the first day of the week, or the first day from the Sabbath (9).
Jews marked time “from sunset to sunset.” Therefore, while we might assume that churches meeting on the Lord’s Day met on Sunday morning, Acts 20:7 indicates Christ’s disciples met at night “on the first day of the week”—remember poor Eutychus falling asleep late at night and falling out the window! Under the Jewish calendar churches gathered on Sa...
If Sunday didn’t replace the Sabbath, what did the earliest Christians think about the day? González lists three theological factors for worship on Sunday. First, it was the day Christ rose from the grave. This is what makes Sunday the Lord’s Day (domingo) and why the New Testament church gathered on this day (24–27). Second, it was the first day o...
For the first three centuries of the church, there was “no expectation that on the Lord’s Day one is to rest from one’s labors” (39). Roman slaves had to work on that day. Not until Christendom shaped commerce did Sunday become a day of rest. The first mention of Sunday rest was issued by Constantine. González cites an edict written in March 321 (C...
In the early church, the Lord’s Day celebrated Christ’s resurrection and the dawn of a new creation; in the Middle Ages, it became more like a funeral. Sunday worship lost its joyful tenor and was driven by “fear of excommunication” (82). In this same era, legislation commending cessation from work continued (83). Spiritual divines urged prayerfuln...
In Puritan England, the idea of the Sabbath was applied to Sunday. In that period, the entire nation slowed down on Sunday, and three theological reasons arose to support this practice. First, there was agreement that a “connection between Sabbath and creation” entailed a “moral precept that all must obey.” Second, under the new covenant it was not...
Over time, European languages retained pagan day-names, but “in most romance languages, the name for the seventh day of the week reflects the Jewish Sabbath” (16). For instance, English Puritans had no linguistic problem transferring the Sabbath to Sunday, but Spanish speakers could make no such transition. How could the Sabbath change to Sunday wh...
Whatever one’s position on the Sabbatarian question, González’s A Brief History of Sunday is helpful. While theologically minded readers may go away frustrated that he doesn’t evaluate history with a theological lens, his book identifies key points in the history of Sunday, which theologians must consider. Indeed, the great benefit of this book is ...
Dec 4, 2022 · Seven years ago Adam Pitluk, editor of American Airlines’ in-flight magazine, secured a most unexpected interview where Wheeler and Gavurin revealed, that after an absence of two decades, they were writing music again. But almost eight years since Adam’s investigations, The Sundays remain as elusive as ever.
- Dickie Felton
Mar 7, 2017 · On March 7, 321, Roman Emperor Constantine I decreed that dies Solis Invicti (‘sun-day,’ or Day of Sol Invictus, Roman God of the Sun) would be the Roman day of rest throughout the Roman Empire.
Feb 14, 2022 · Mixing the feathery whimsy of the Cocteau Twins and the jangling melodicism of The Smiths, The Sundays were tipped for huge stardom with Reading, Writing And Arithmetic.
Jan 30, 2009 · For almost 70 years, it's been a Sunday institution, now appearing in more than 450 Sunday newspapers across the country, with a parade of covers to show for it. Parade, says Kaplan, would not...
