Today in History: On this day in 1692, Anglicanism was made the state church of Maryland.
Three years later this was overturned.
The state had originally been founded by Lord Baltimore to provide a refuge for Roman Catholics.
(One wonders what 'Big Pete' would have done had he been around in 1692. Then again, perhaps he was and all of this is just a recurrent nightmare. You know. Like "Groundhog Day" for Episcopalians and Anglicans.)
"Finally, I suspect that it is by entering that deep place inside us where our secrets are kept that we come perhaps closer than we do anywhere else to the One who, whether we realize it or not, is of all our secrets the most telling and the most precious we have to tell." Frederick Buechner
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"If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a Hope-er, a Pray-er, a Magic Bean buyer; if you're a pretender, come sit by my fire. For we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!" -- Shel Silverstein
1 comment:
If Big Pete had been around MD in the 1600s it was likely he'd have been a slave.
Not to be rude, just realistic.
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