Happy Thanksgiving!

[Lamb]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone in the US!

 

[1689Dave]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone in the US!

Turkey day Tidbits; The Pilgrims come to America.

Robinson, John (c. 1575–1625), pastor to the *Pilgrim Fathers. Very little is known about his early life. He was a native of Lincs or Notts, probably studied at Cambridge, was ordained in the C of E, and seems to have held a curacy at *Norwich. He later became a *Puritan, joining the ‘gathered Church’ at Scrooby Manor, Notts. In 1608, owing to severe measures against Nonconformity, Robinson and his congregation were forced to flee to the *Netherlands. In 1609 he settled at *Leiden, of which university he became a member in 1615. From 1617 he interested himself in the project of his Leiden community to emigrate to America, as their strict *Calvinism had brought them into conflict with the *Arminianism of which Leiden was a centre. Though he was prevented from joining the Pilgrim Fathers in the Mayflower, he assisted them in their preparations and encouraged them by his letters. He was an able controversialist: in 1610 he published Justification of Separation from the Church, and in his Apologia (1619) he defended the principles of Congregationalism. He also wrote A Defence of the Doctrine Propounded by the Synod at Dort (1624). His Observations Divine and Moral, a collection of 62 essays on spiritual and moral subjects, was published posthumously (1625).



Cross, F. L., & Livingstone, E. A. (Eds.). (2005). In The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd ed. rev., pp. 1412–1413). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.

 

[Albion]

...and so it seems that people who adhere to the traditional beliefs and practices of Christianity, regardless of denomination, are slowly being driven towards a similar point.

That is to say, Christianity is under attack from certain "woke" elements in society and may well be seeing the beginnings of persecution for merely following the faith that was the standard in our country for many decades prior to the present.

But where will these people be able to flee to for safety? There is no counterpart to the Netherlands of Robinson's day, hardly any sympathetic nations anywhere that are similar, culturally, to our own country, and no more unsettled colonies.

 

[Romanos]

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.