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We live in a time when American citizenship and patriotism are too often wedded to Christian discipleship, or at least confused with discipleship.  So, when I read theologian, Willie James Jennings, commentary on today’s reading from Acts, I found it very helpful.  He writes: The church has always been tempted to confuse citizenship with discipleship.  The citizen who is a disciple can no longer be a citizen in the abstract, no longer a citizen in theory but only in the concrete practice of a disciple.  The disciple is a citizen who has had their citizenship tightly bound to the body of Jesus and ordered by the Spirit of God toward one purpose – to expose the concealed architecture of oppression and violence and to set the captives free.  A citizen may do other things to promote the well-being of the republic.  Yet the disciple must never forget the site from which they are obligated to think citizenship: the prison and the places of the oppressed.   Throughout history, disciples of Jesus have worked to expos