The article (accessed by the green button) not only tells us some of the history but also challenges us as American Christians to think how fortunate we are to be able to worship our God openly and freely. And . . . what would it be like to not be able to worship or to worship surrounded by guards who mock and insult us. The author asks us to think about what enslaved us before we found a new life in Christ.
You will recall I told you we learned on our Holy Land trip that the modern day Israeli Army (which consists of men and women) are required to repeatedly march with full gear up and down the Snake Path while we were fortunate to ride the ski lift / monorail.