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Make (Whose?) Rome Great Again
Happy Fourth of July! Hope you get to savor some apple pie, jump in some water, and see some fireworks. I just returned from teaching an on-site course that traveled through Rome, so I’m taking the week off. But I met the most interesting Christian saint, and I invited him to guest post on our special American holiday. He chose to share this letter he received from the emperor: Rome, AD 249 – Decius to Maximus, grace to you. Last week over a thousand of us light-skinned citizens from across the empire who fly the Roman flag in our houses of worship gathered in Rome. We decked ourselves out in…