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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He was a member of First Baptist Church of Broken Arrow and a United States Navy Veteran. Roger leaves behind his wife Betty Williams of Coweta, Oklahoma; son and daughter-in-law Bryan and Alyn ...