Socialism doesn’t work. Just ask the Pilgrims. Most Americans are familiar with the story of the Puritans landing at Plymouth Rock in 1620, but few perhaps understand their early experiment with socialism and how its failure led them to embrace ...
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The Faith Of The Pilgrims: A Lesson In Sovereign Grace And Thanksgiving
. . John Robinson really was the Moses through whom God gave the newly born nation commandments that should be their strength and glory in a new country which he himself never saw. — Daniël Plooij, The Pilgrim Fathers (1969) ...
Read More »Why Everyone (Yes, Even Rush Limbaugh) Is Wrong About Thanksgiving Episode 185 (interview with Roger Schultz)
Host Bill Heid talks to American historian Roger Schultz, who separates fact from fiction in what we believe about the Pilgrims and Native Americans. Even Rush Limbaugh has some of it wrong in his latest book, “Rush Revere and the ...
Read More »The Pilgrims You Never Knew with David Bradford – Episode 130
During Bill’s recent trip to London, he was blessed to visit the birthplace and baptismal fount where William Bradford, Pilgrim father and governor of Plymouth Colony, was baptized as a child. The history of the place is almost overwhelming. So ...
Read More »Thanksgiving: A Uniquely American Tradition
The uniquely American tradition of observing a special day of Thanksgiving to God dates to long before the colonies became a nation. Though it did not become an official holiday until 1863 at the proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, Thanksgiving existed ...
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