But how did the “separation of church and state” clause come to be? One such foundational story is that of Roger Williams, an extraordinary man and the founder of the first Baptist church in ...

But the First Baptist Church in America uses its “wayside ... The Providence church was founded in 1638 by Roger Williams, the English-born minister who founded Rhode Island after being booted ...

But the concept might never have come about if a radical immigrant named Roger Williams hadn ... After forming the first Baptist church in America, Williams left it to seek spirituality in ...

None of which excuses our collective amnesia regarding Roger Williams ... the world" engulf "the garden of the church"). Given the chance to recant, Williams proved, as Gaustad puts it, "more ...

For a brief moment last month, Roger Williams ... story of Williams' voyage from England to Boston in the early 1630s, following his disillusionment with the corruption of the Church of England ...

In fact, he talked about the separation of church and state more than 100 years before Thomas Jefferson. So, it's not just that Roger Williams paved ... or endured as a Baptist or Methodist ...