Our local Republican committee may be far removed from the Battle of Saratoga, but it owes its existence to that and other battles of the Revolutionary War.
If more Protestants would read about the Reformation they might better understand their own faith and not shrink from identifying themselves as "Reformed."
Thanks for the ping, Dr. E, and bump for your words and thoughts.
When my parents and I came to the United States we settled in a very Anglo town, hence a Protestant town.
There were/are five Churces in all, only one was Roman Catholic.
We were welcomed by everyone, but it was the Protestant part of the Community that welcomed my family most graciously. From shop owners who would try to help my Mom when shopping for groceries, to her Irish Protestant friend who took me in for 10 days while my Mother remainded at Strong Memorial Hospital to watch over my younger brother, who needed his kidney removed at the age of 2.
She had a daughter that was my age, and I remember the wonderful feeling the morning following my first night there, when I awoke to find the breakfast table set exactly for me as it was for her daughter. When she braided my long hair, it was with the same precision she used for her daughter. Norma, God bless and rest her Soul, had a tough, Irish exterior, but loved me in a way that no extended family (cousins, aunts, etc), here in the U.S., ever did. Her good will was immediate and very sizeable.
Fruits, all around us were good fruits. As, I am no longer Roman Catholic, I'm proud to call myself Protestant, should I be even 1/10th the child of God, that she was, accurses and anathemas, notwithstanding.
No longer Catholic? When did that happen?
I'm enriched by every one of your posts. You should write a book.