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 ...

Although Roger Williams lived a century before the Revolutionary era ... and he established the first Baptist church in America. Despite these accomplishments, most Americans are unfamiliar with ...

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 ...

Roger Williams was born in London ... where he wound up founding the first Baptist Church in what became Providence, Rhode Island. Around 1611, the General Baptists in England were apparently ...

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 ...