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The Toronto Word on the Street festival was a hectic heads down exercise in focusing on the people that showed up with little time for long conversations. I was humbled by the diversity of the people that showed up to greet me. Thanks so much for the warm reception to a brand new city where I thought I didn’t know anyone! One person asked “Who Supports You?” I know what she meant — she meant the question in terms of a sponsor……
In 1644 when Roger Williams returned from England with a charter for his New England colony providing for an experiment in toleration, it was still a small experiment watched but not admired. He has instituted the separation of church and state but his civil government was weak, his colony impoverished, and success was not certain. In the end, religious freedom did not spread back to England as he’d hoped for fear of Catholicism. Parliament blocked measure after measure put forward…..