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A word about our graphic: The graphic alludes to several things of importance to our heritage as inheritors of the Reformation. The haystack alludes to the “Haystack Prayer Meeting” that spawned the American Foreign Missions Movement and the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20) because holy faith without holy action is, at best, pious introspection. The generic parchment should be seen as pointing specifically to Holy Scripture. The mad monk with the hammer and his own parchment is, of course, Luther nailing the 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenburg Cathedral as he is in the process of forcefully restating the doctrine of Justification By Faith from St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans to that generation - and ours. The Celtic Cross that forms the “T” in “Reformation” points to the reality that the Christian faith had reached and blessed the Western world before the Roman hegemony could assert itself, a fact that our Reformation ancestors would surely want us to remember. It was that Trinitarian, worshipful, scholarly and missionary faith we remember the Celtic Christians for that the Reformers sought to restore.