History

Returning

Medium has updated a feature so that stories with the potential to earn are able to be added to publications. I’m happy to participate…

Worth-Part 1

After Roger Williams founded Providence, John Winthrop wrote him a letter. John was still in Boston, staging a comeback from a failed…

Testing…123….Testing

One of my favorite scriptures starts off “Test everything, hold fast what is good.” 1 Thes 5:21. If feels like like a…

Decorum vs. Freedom of Speech

Rules of Engagement for Freedom

Not the Wall You Were Looking For

Yes, Roger Williams separated church and state in Rhode Island, but the “wall of separation” that Williams mentioned is not Thomas Jefferson’s! That would be the wrong wall. Williams’s message is more accurately: TEAR DOWN THIS WALL, Mr. Cotton! In short, while Roger…

Flight Into Wilderness by Bob Palmer

Programmed by both popular culture and experience, we too often think of preachers as unworldly…

Continuing to Learn

With software we continually improve by removing bugs and adding features. Eventually we get to the point we want to do…

Admiring “Hamilton, The Musical”

I’m sure Lin-Manuel Miranda is onto something big because this musical is seeping into parts of me…

Miantonomoh

“…our children will go forth and pluck the lovely red blossoms of courage, and generosity, the beautiful blue flowers of truthfulness and kindness, and the white purity of the divine “Lily of…