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When Roger Williams was banished he set out alone into a blizzard in a harsh New England winter. He would survive to separate church and state in a brand new settlement that would become Rhode Island. Roger Williams wrote little that has survived about his 14 week winter stay in the wilderness of New England. The resulting absence of fact has led to a plethora of theories. There are many alternatives to the one in the novel Rekindled. What we do…..
Rekindled Chapter 1 opens with HH’s story as if it is certain who he was. That certainty is fiction. What is known is that the introductions to Roger Williams’s book The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution opens with HH’s writing, and Roger Williams asserted that it came out of Newgate prison. The introduction is clearly meant as an inspiration for what follows in the book: a rational for the separation of church and state. Because the text of HH’s writing showed…..
When I was an engineer, my mentor told me I had to choose. I could either get things done or I could take credit for getting things done. There is simply not time be the best at both. It seemed incredibly unfair at the time, but all my subsequent experience showed that I was better off getting things done and pairing up with people who wanted to spend time getting credit (they usually shared credit anyway — at a fraction of the…..