Roger Williams

Letters: Baptists and Boy Scouts

2013-06-16 00:00:00

Re "Church opposes gays in Scouts," June 13 As a Baptist, I want to crawl in a hole when I read of such blatant hostility by Christians against gays joining the Boy Scouts of America. The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant...

Edwin Gaustad dies at 87; scholar of American religion

2011-04-05 00:00:00

Edwin Gaustad, a retired UC Riverside history and religious studies professor who was a preeminent scholar on the separation of church and state, and who did groundbreaking work mapping the nation's religious landscape, has died. He was 87. Gaustad...

Listing: Chicago-area farmers markets

2012-05-09 00:00:00

An early spring will bring not only May flowers to the farmers markets this year, but also an abundance of farm-fresh produce earlier than usual, while preparations for Chicago's first NATO summit will delay two downtown markets. The Daley Plaza...

Allan Powell: Roger Williams, a lone visionary

2012-05-25 00:00:00

One can only hope that John M. Barry’s scholarly and compelling book, “Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul,” will become a literary success. It is fair to say that Williams’ contribution to American culture is...

Letters to the Editor - June 5

2012-06-05 00:00:00

Williams’ legacy affects our modern times To the editor: I very much appreciated Allan Powell’s column (March 25) on the great Colonial American Roger Williams. He remains primarily a figure for historians to study, though his legacy...

Letters to the Editor - June 6

2012-06-06 00:00:00

Insurance companies care for profits, not health To the editor: Many big insurance companies have stopped giving insurance policies to all children so they can make an end run around the Affordable Health Care Act’s requirement that they cannot...

First Amendment - Part Two Where did this doctrine of religious liberty come from?

2012-02-26 16:05:00

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the press." This doctrine of religious freedom was not really some new doctrine but an overlooked...

Religious dissent nothing new

2011-02-16 01:30:30

I belong to a book discussion group. The book choice for this month is the historical nonfiction, �American Jezebel� by Eve LaPlante. Since history is not my favorite genre, it was rather tedious, but I learned, or should I say remembered, a lot of the...

Indian Stories Passed Down Orally

2002-08-04 00:00:00

For thousands of years before the Europeans arrived, people told stories in Hartford. "For people who lack writing, memory becomes all important," wrote historian Howard S. Russell in 1980. "The ancestry of the family on both sides for several...

Chapter Two: The First Slaves

2002-09-29 00:00:00

Out of a swampy thicket, near the blue waters of Long Island Sound, 200 old men, women and children stepped into the bright sunshine and entered a new world. Hundreds of edgy soldiers, mustered from villages and farms across Connecticut, had finally...

Amongst America's oldest zoos, this location is just a short drive up I-95 to Providence. It features 957 animals, a carousel and a playground. This is one of Rhode Island's top tourist attractions. Information: rwpzoo.org.

2012-06-19 00:00:00