From the WSJ: When Christian stores open on Sunday, as the Family Christian Store chain decided to do last fall

Perhaps feeling a bit defensive, Mr. Browne overplayed his hand last fall when, referring to Chik-Fil-A, he told the Dallas Morning News: “No one is going to hell if they don’t eat a chicken sandwich on a Sunday.” The implication was that his wares are more important to salvation and thus exempt from concerns about selling on the Sabbath, but Mr. Browne was hardly speaking ex cathedra.

In any event, the decision by Family Christian Stores puts pressure on the rest of the Christian bookstore industry. Bev Channell, for example, opened Wellspring, her independent store in Des Moines, Iowa, on Sundays just for the Christmas season, in part because Family Christian had just opened a store in nearby Ankeny.

“It’s important to take a day of rest, yes,” explains Ms. Channell. “But what does keeping the Sabbath day holy really mean? When we go out to eat on Sundays, we go to a business that’s open–how is that right or wrong? Besides, we were very concerned with paying the bills. This is a business, and it’s a ministry.”

Are there blue laws in effect anywhere anymore? When I lived in Virginia about fifteen years ago, there were – I think only grocery stores could be open on Sundays in the area.