Roger Williams - ProtoAmerican Hero

INTRODUCTION

      The history of the creation of the United States of America, as taught and understood by a great number of modern Americans, goes something like this:  In 1620, pilgrims fled King James’ England aboard the Mayflower to escape religious persecution.  They settled in what would become Massachusetts and celebrated the first Thanksgiving.  They abused the natives of the land and farmed, and flourished.  More settlers arrived, and English taxation in the colonies became so severe that, in the mid-1700s, a revolution was sparked. 

Marching as to War - A look at some defining characteristics of The Salvation Army

INTRODUCTION

The modern day Protestant Church is an extremely diverse organism.  With a spectrum that ranges from the highly liturgical styles of Anglicanism to the most free-flowing forms of Pentecostalism, the Protestant landscape has evolved over the past half-millennium into a veritable smorgasbord of religious expression.