The Wages of the Covenant - The Children of the Covenant
The Bay Colony in 1660 had survived everything its founders feared. It had built its courts and churches and its college on a standard that separated the elect from the rest: the visible saints, men a...
30 Apr 202118min
The Covenant & the Charter - Above or Below the Law
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was not built despite England's crisis — it was built because of it. Without Charles I's eleven years of personal rule, without Archbishop Laud's campaign of religious per...
30 Apr 202129min
The Covenant & the Charter - New Amsterdam
While the Bay Colony was banishing Roger Williams and burning Pequot villages, something entirely different was being built three hundred miles to the south. Not a covenant community. A trading post w...
30 Apr 202125min
The Covenant & the Charter - The Pequot War
In July 1636, a Boston trader named John Gallop sailed alongside a drifting pinnace off Block Island and found his friend John Oldham dead inside it — head crushed, body mutilated, two surviving nephe...
30 Apr 202126min
The Covenant & the Charter - Visible Saints
In 1634, a woman arrived in Boston who had been reading theology since childhood — trained on her father’s heresy trial transcript, devoted to a preacher who made people feel grace rather than merely ...
30 Apr 202125min
The Covenant & the Charter - The Garden and the Wilderness
Providence in 1636 was a handful of houses and a radical idea — that the state had no business in a person's relationship with God. The Bay Colony to the north had not forgotten Roger Williams, and it...
30 Apr 202123min
The Covenant & the Charter - Soul Liberty
By 1634, the Massachusetts Bay Colony had survived its first winters, built its courts and churches, and prepared to fight England itself to protect its charter. It looked, from the outside, like a su...
30 Apr 202124min
The Covenant & the Charter - The Body Politic
By 1631 the city on the hill was no longer dying. Margaret Winthrop arrived in Boston harbor that November on the Lyon, sixteen months after John had left her on an English dock — without the daughter...
30 Apr 202122min
