Tag Archives: Liberty
When Roger Williams began to fight against forced worship it was controversial and illegal to do so and communications happened in code. The code is beautiful — to the casual uneducated eye it looks like Greek, but it isn’t. The code in simple rendition as reproduced here has been cracked, but the original appears to have had a second layer of code around it’s edges that may not yet be fully cracked. It is like looking into a hallway of mirrors four…..
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…..
Roger stood in the 1600’s for life and liberty. Since the 1700’s we’ve believed in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The goal of happiness may spawn from an increased focus on the individual, a focus that took a big step forward with Christ’s recognition of each soul as valuable. However individualism did not fully flower until after Roger Williams was gone. It seems now that happiness has overtaken life and liberty as the most sacrosanct goal. If we…..
In the uproar over Megyn Kelly, I pulled out your web site to see what it said, expecting to get angry. Incidentally, thanks for elevating her fame. I did not know her, but thanks to you I know of her now — and she’s awesome. She is hard hitting — a worthy opponent for sure. Your immigration memo pleasantly surprised me. Did you write those first paragraphs, I wonder, or did some politically correct staffer — I just want to be certain you’ve at least read…..