LOL, you made my day. :)

BTW: Swedes have a "Riksdagen" and Dutch a "Rijksmuseum" ...

> (Reinhold Niebuhr), was a german expat

according to WP he was born in the US

But true, collaborations between confessions are very normal here, the Lutheran church next door is used by Ethiopian Christians for Easter mass.

> German has a lot of theological influence on Americans with most of us being too ignorant to know it.

BTW: not only among Christians, see Reform_Judaism