Awakenings

In the middle of the Eighteenth Century a series of great revivals swept through the British colonies.  Collectively they have become known as the First Great Awakening.  This was a manifestation of the great Evangelical movement which was also sweeping the British Isles.  Preachers thundered from hundreds of pulpits assuring people that Christ’s millennial returnContinue reading “Awakenings”

The Atlantic

That the Atlantic Ocean was a barrier between the Old World and the New was attested to by the thousands of years the Americas lay in splendid isolation.  Sporadic contact by the Norse, Irish fisherman and the stray mariner blown off course did nothing to end the nearly insurmountable barrier.  Then as the technological expertiseContinue reading “The Atlantic”