The Oath That Changed Everything
On a warm Friday morning in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, forty-seven people from twenty-three countries stood together and raised their right hands. Among them...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Romans 10:9.
On a warm Friday morning in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, forty-seven people from twenty-three countries stood together and raised their right hands. Among them was Maria Alvarez, a nurse from Guatemala who had waited eleven years for this moment. The judge asked them to repeat the Oath of Allegiance — to renounce former loyalties and pledge themselves to a new nation.…
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