I love the country I was lucky enough to be born in (one of my students at Baylor once wrote in an essay that being born in America was like winning the lottery, and almost everyone reading these words is already a big winner), but I do not worship America. My faith and devotion should go to the One God, and I am trying hard not to manufacture other gods out of nation, family, success, consumption, or anything else the world pushes in front of my nose and tells me to value.
