The Burr in the Burgh

I found this interesting post about sanctuary flags over at Purgatorio. I say, "Lose 'em."

Here at my church, there are flags in the building, but they are the very back of the nave. My preference would be to remove them altogether.

I'm a patriotic American. We put the stars and stripes outside our house on the 4th of July. But putting an American flag in a Christian church is a strange practice. The church is not a civic institution. Nor should it be a nationalistic one. It is catholic, that is, universal. The church is not an American thing.