>In this dialogue, a British visitor to America experiences Christianity, American style:
In a downtown drugstore, an assistant offers to help pack my bags at checkout.
“Thank you,” I say.
“Glory be to our God,” he replies.
I realise that somewhere between the conveyor belt and the trolley I seem to have misplaced an item. Then I notice that he’s packed it underneath the trolley basket.
“There it is,” I say.
“Praise the Lord!” he cries.
Praising the Lord comes naturally to many in America in a way that many of us in the UK (even in our supposedly Bible-thumping bit of it) would find odd or over-the-top.
In our secular society today, some people are not comfortable with genuine demonstrations of praise and gratitude. To me and countless others, these demonstrations of praise are beautiful; to others, they are “odd or over-the top.”
Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary
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Dr. Claude Mariottini - Professor of Old Testament 