Posts Tagged “Paul Revere”
It may sound like a stretch, but you can learn a lot about contemporary faith and politics from colonial needlework. American colonists struggled to make sense of the events leading up to the war with Britain. Escalating encroachments were resisted by the colonists, whose sometimes-violent actions provoked further crackdowns. The cycle intensified throughout the late [...]
With the arrival of the Fourth of July, I think it’s worth pointing out the commitment to the cause of Independence that people from many levels of society possessed and expressed. Eloquent and toplofty patriots like Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams could plumb the philosophical depths of the quarrel between Britain and America and rationalize [...]
One of the most fascinating figures I’ve discovered while researching about the life of Paul Revere is Jonathan Mayhew. He was the pastor at West Church in Boston. He is often cited as the first Unitarian, and in his letters you can read him complaining about, among other things, the average Bostonian’s “zeal for Athanasian [...]