United Baptist Church, John Clarke Memorial, at 30 Spring Street, was founded in 1644 by John Clarke. It was America’s second Baptist church. Clarke was co-founder of Rhode Island and an early defender of liberty of conscience.
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Francis Asbury Grave
Wikipedia: Francis Asbury (August 20 or 21, 1745 – March 31, 1816) was one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. During his 45 years in the colonies and the newly independent United States, he devoted his life to ministry, traveling on horseback and by carriage thousands of miles to those living on the frontier. Read more…
First Baptist Church of Swansea
Founded in 1663 by John Myles, the First Baptist Church of Swansea is actually the third oldest Baptist church in the United States. Two older Baptist churches are located in Providence, Rhode Island, and Boston, Massachusetts. Swansea, however, has the distinction of having the first Baptist church to construct a meetinghouse in North America. Swansea Read more…
Gideons Birthplace, Boscobel, WI
World War I Memorial, Kansas City
The Pioneer Mother, Kansas City
Rush Limbaugh
A conservative icon. The man who saved AM radio. And yet divorced 3 times. And an OxyContin addict. But yet shortly before he died, even he found Jesus!
Great is Thy Faithfulness / Thomas Obadiah (T.O.) Chisholm’s birthplace
Join us as we go on location to the birthplace of the man who wrote “Great is Thy Faithfulness”
Princeton Cemetery: Earthly resting place of Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Davies, and John Witherspoon
Join us as we go to Princeton Cemetery, into the Presidents’ Plot, where several of America’s founding pastors are buried – men like Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Davies, and John Witherspoon.
S1E2: Bill Federer on D. L. Moody and Booker T. Washington
Bill Federer, author of America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations, joins us to talk about the visit by Abraham Lincoln to Moody’s Sunday school; Moody’s work in the Civil War with the U.S. Christian Commission; P. T. Barnum’s hippodrome; and Booker T. Washington, the freemen schools, and his famous “Cast Down Your Bucket Where Read more…