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BRIEF: Roger Williams University puts off decision on Providence classrooms
The Providence JournalPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A spokeswoman for Roger Williams University said Wednesday that the timing has slipped for the institution's decision on expanding its downtown presence. The university plans to increase its presence downtown as it intends to aid...Tags: Roger Williams University, Colleges and Universities, Education
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Allan Powell: Roger Williams, a lone visionary
One can only hope that John M. Barry’s scholarly and compelling book, “Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul,” will become a literary success. It is fair to say that Williams’ contribution to American culture is...Tags: Thomas Jefferson, Church and State Relations, Separation of Church and State, Christianity, Religion and Belief
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Letters to the Editor - June 5
Williams’ legacy affects our modern times To the editor: I very much appreciated Allan Powell’s column (March 25) on the great Colonial American Roger Williams. He remains primarily a figure for historians to study, though his legacy...Tags: Minority Groups, Marriage, Judges, Separation of Church and State, Christianity
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Letters to the Editor - June 6
Insurance companies care for profits, not health To the editor: Many big insurance companies have stopped giving insurance policies to all children so they can make an end run around the Affordable Health Care Act’s requirement that they cannot...Tags: Minority Groups, American Civil Liberties Union, Marriage, Christianity, Government Health Care
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Listing: Chicago-area farmers markets
An early spring will bring not only May flowers to the farmers markets this year, but also an abundance of farm-fresh produce earlier than usual, while preparations for Chicago's first NATO summit will delay two downtown markets.
The Daley Plaza...Tags: Englewood, Politics, Chicago, Marketing, Metra
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First Amendment - Part Two Where did this doctrine of religious liberty come from?
Pastor - Berachah Baptist Church Somerset"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the press." This doctrine of religious freedom was not really some new doctrine but an overlooked...Tags: Politics, Health, Freedom of Religion, Christianity, Freedom of the Press
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Religious dissent nothing new
I belong to a book discussion group. The book choice for this month is the historical nonfiction, “American Jezebel” by Eve LaPlante. Since history is not my favorite genre, it was rather tedious, but I learned, or should I say remembered, a lot of the...Tags: Politics, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Church and State Relations, Constitutional Issues, Rhode Island
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Edwin Gaustad dies at 87; scholar of American religion
Edwin Gaustad, a retired UC Riverside history and religious studies professor who was a preeminent scholar on the separation of church and state, and who did groundbreaking work mapping the nation's religious landscape, has died. He was 87.
Gaustad...Tags: Politics, Alabama, Freedom of Religion, American Civil Liberties Union, Christianity
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Indian Stories Passed Down Orally
Courant Staff WriterFor thousands of years before the Europeans arrived, people told stories in Hartford. "For people who lack writing, memory becomes all important," wrote historian Howard S. Russell in 1980. "The ancestry of the family on both sides for several...Tags: Delaware, Children, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Connecticut, Rhode Island
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Chapter Two: The First Slaves
Out of a swampy thicket, near the blue waters of Long Island Sound, 200 old men, women and children stepped into the bright sunshine and entered a new world. Hundreds of edgy soldiers, mustered from villages and farms across Connecticut, had finally...Tags: Minority Groups, Homes, Massachusetts, History, Columbia University
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