The Itinerant Preacher Who Helped Secure the Separation of Church and State - The New York Times
For the 250th anniversary, The Times Magazine asked leading historians to profile founding-era Americans whose roles in the drama have been often overlooked.
Visions of America For the 250th, we asked seven leading historians to profile a founding-era American whose story has rarely been told. See the project. In 1775, a Baptist preacher named John Leland arrived in Virginia, part of a wave of evangelical revivalists known as New Lights. He was looking for converts. Many New Lights were radicals. They directly challenged, and often infuriated, the Church of England, the official church in Virginia and many other colonies. New Light preachers like Leland defied Anglican norms by baptizing women without the consent of their husbands and allowing them
Explore this link on the map →related reading
- Episcopal Church (United States) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- McDaniel v. Paty - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Everson v. Board of Education - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Abolitionism in the United States - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- G. K. Chesterton - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Braunfeld v. Brown - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- A School of Strength and Characterpalladiummag.com
- History of the Quakers - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Locke v. Davey - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Constitutional Convention (United States) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- Zelman v. Simmons-Harris - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org