What about "Mi Casa , Su Casa", it means my house, your house. How important were the values of hospitality in strangers and sojourners?
What Does the Bible Say About Hospitality? (openbible.info)
What a lot of it. I don't even need to lean on that "Good Samaritan".
When English Presbyterians arrived in the Netherlands , the "American Pilgrim Museum" in the Netherlands has a book called Strangers and Sojourners. Netherlandic peoples welcome English , why? Presbyterian, Puritan Reformed Pilgrim types? Most of the Protestant Reformed Netherlands was other religious refugees. What little must be known about those strangers and sojourners in hospitality?
Barack Obama's inauguration recently used the "patriotic" "My Country Tis of Thee". Notice two directions going on here. A singer named Marian Anderson was called Colored and couldn't perform or was denied at a particular establishment and sang at the Lincoln Memorial "My Country Tis of Thee", which Martin Luther King Jr. recalled at a young age like many, and said 'we will sing with new meaning My Country Tis of Thee", leading up to the Barack Obama/Aretha Franklin story, I'd assume. I assume that. The other line is that at Plymouth Massachussettes we have Plymouth Rock, Puritan Pilgrims settled in 1620, in a Presbyterian Polity, as an active faith with work to be done in it. The country has historically favored its founding populations but not necessarily anymore, depending on ceremony. Alabama and the idea of Jefferson Davis both is that Reformed Religion cooperated in contracts and agreements across States/countries/body politics who decided to ratify, the definition of Confederacy, treaties between existing states, the Westminster Confession was ratified for a short time between the Church of Scotland and the Church of England in Reformed Religion, Presbyterian Polity, Puritan simply describing the act of fully Reforming the English Church. In the idea of "two directions" you can find two very different children's books entitled "My Country Tis of Thee", I can't decide which one is more ridiculous. Are there no Responsibilities to people native to each of the lands, or is that some privilege only for a black person to attain? Why are there settled cultural patterns in the world making population centers?
That easily points at the other end of the spectrum that right now in London you could choose to Google Map a Ghanese, a Scottish, and a Welsh Presbyterian Churches all in the wider London sprawl. Such activities are completely culled in the United States with the Eisenhower United Presbyterian and the Reagan PCUSA, you won't find a one, a cultural Presbyterian offshoot. The Belhar Confession preaches no separations on race particularly, whether or not that is a National identity.
PC(USA) will never describe a Church segmentation. It seems a hypocrisy that all that Eisenhower could say is slavery, slavery , slavery, to cause a loss in the Confederate mindset of an unrelated and tangent ideal. US Citizenship is no indicator whatsoever in any understanding of Religion or Hospitality.
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