Anothersuggestion stems from the observation that America is a nation ofimmigrants. A colleague points out to me that immigrants,uprooted from the stability and comfort of an extended family inEurope, could well have embraced a church as a kind of kin-substitute on alien soil. It is an interesting idea, worth researchingfurther.

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