Reformation Sunday asks Christians a question: What is power for?
As Haitian Christians led a pilgrimage across Ohio, their witness offered a different vision of Christian power — and a reminder of what happens when churches forget whom they serve. As Protestants celebrate Reformation Sunday on Oct. 25, Haitian pastors and community members led a 40-plus-mile pilgrimage from Springfield, Ohio, to the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus to remind America of one of Christianity's most basic commandments: Love your neighbor as yourself. The journey included people subject to electronic ankle monitoring and families threatened with detention and deportation. This betrayal comes as the U.S. administration threatens to deport Haitians who have been granted Temporary Protected Status due to dangerous conditions in their homeland. The Public Religion Research Institute found that only 38% of Christian nationalists consider empathy a moral value, compared to 94% of those who reject it. The author suggests that Christian nationalism is a political project that privileges a narrow vision of Christian identity in determining who belongs, whose rights are protected and who should govern. The Reformation, not an anniversary of an event, is an invitation to examine the heart and soul of an ongoing, ongoing event where the church is asked to examine its relationship with political power.
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People participate in a four-day, 40-plus-mile pilgrimage from Springfield to the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026. — Video screen grab
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