At Sunday services this weekend, churches across the country will direct congregants to flip to the section of classic patriotic songs in their hymnals or display lyrics to more recent nation-centric tunes like Lee Greenwood's “God Bless the USA,” Chris Tomlin's “America,” or even “Make America Great Again,” a song composed at First Baptist Church of Dallas using President Trump's famous slogan.
Despite ongoing concerns over conflating worship of God with worship of country, the majority of churches in the United States mark the Fourth of July in song—a tradition that in some places goes back to the years surrounding America's first Independence Day.
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