Across it are dotted medieval grid-planned villages, with Lutheran churches, schools, dignified houses, barns and smallholdings, their customs and exclusivity reminiscent of the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Does he speak for and to a secular and multi-cultural nation which knows little of theology but still looks to church to provide dignified and historically resonant mood music to mark important public and private moments?
Presbyterians believe the Holy Spirit is moving within the church, in a dignified and proper way, to move them all towards social justice.
A sweet-natured, unambitious, and dignified man, he stands in his church pew "as calm as a saint in a stained-glass window".
Mr. Cryer quotes Peter J. Gomes, the former university chaplain at Harvard who died in 2011, describing Mr. Church's passionate advocacy and dignified approach to death this way: "He invented his own space.
The dignified old building, owned by the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, will eventually be knocked down, according to Faith Grill, the chairman of the church's board of trustees.
"A church down the road just had a nice, dignified silent auction, earning $15,000," said the show's co-host, Melinda Cosentino.
Executed in soft pencil on paper it shows them in their veiled church hats and gloves staring out at the viewer, isolated, proud, dignified and afraid.
A dignified, two-story brick structure with a steep slate roof and a domed bell tower, the Academy still resembles a church, although it is now used for lectures and official university functions.
