Colonial era
Connecticut lawmakers apologize for ‘miscarriage of justice’ in colonial-era witch trials
By Susan Haigh — May 30, 2023
(AP) — The lone senator to vote against the bill exonerating women convicted of being witches said. 'I don’t want to see bills that rightfully or wrongfully attempt to paint America as a bad place with a bad history'.
To fight racism, we need to confront religion’s racist past
By Simran Jeet Singh — July 9, 2020
(RNS) — There’s nothing ‘past’ about American racism — it is our present, and will be our future unless we abandon the triumphalism of the country's founding faith.
Thousands of historic Congregational documents to go online
By Jerome Socolovsky — April 9, 2018
BOSTON (AP) — With the help of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Congregational Library and Archives Hidden Histories project is locating, securing, and digitizing church records from 1630 to 1800 and putting them online for anyone to peruse for free.
Exhibit showcases the earliest stirrings of American religious diversity
By Adelle M. Banks — June 28, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) On display are a 1654 Torah scroll, a page from the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon and a text written by a slave who wanted to pass on the essentials of his Muslim heritage.
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