Tag Archives: Church
What are we fighting for? “We shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us.” John Winthrop Senior, 17th Century John Winthrop Senior was the new governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony when he made this statement. His ship was about to sail for the new world carrying the Great Migration, a set of people fleeing a mandatory state religion that persecuted them. However, when he arrived, they set up a new mandatory…..
Three hundred eighty years after Roger Williams put everything on the line to stand for heartfelt worship and respect for conscience, we seem a bit building focused. When we talk of separation of church and state we often focus on which building an organization can meet in, e.g. can a church meet in a public school. There is a sad lament that churches in Europe are being repurposed rapidly as they are empty, but Roger Williams might have been happy,…..