Congregational polity
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Nov 4, 2026
Christopher HitchensGUEST
Where I was very kind to mention that I recently took my oath as an American citizen at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. Actually, it was on the 13th of April, which is his birthday and also mine, and I'm in a small way his biographer, and I was able to arrange to take the oath at the Tidal Basin by his memorial, and I made a little speech about the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom, which is the basis of the tremendous First Amendment to our Constitution, that guarantees, as you know, that there can be no clerical meddling in our public and political life.
Christopher HitchensGUEST
And the shorthand phrase for that was uttered by the president in a letter that he wrote to the Baptists of Danbury, Connecticut, seeking refuge from persecution, from the Congregationalists of Danbury, Connecticut, by the way, it's who they were afraid of, in which he said there will be a wall of separation forever on this point.
Christopher HitchensGUEST
So I now have a new slogan for you.
Christopher HitchensGUEST
Mr. Jefferson, build up that wall.
Jeremy BaileyGUEST
Just like members of the Federalist Party were going to be assimilated.
Jeremy BaileyGUEST
So it doesn't matter if you're a religious leader among the Shawnee or a religious leader among the Connecticut Congregationalist.
Jeremy BaileyGUEST
Assimilation's coming for you, too.
Jeremy BaileyGUEST
And so that's the kind of combination of the Press chapter and the Native Nations chapter.
Matthew HarrisGUEST
Yeah, so it's interesting because we're talking about religious minorities.
Matthew HarrisGUEST
And just to give a little context, we're talking about in Connecticut, which is a state dominated by Congregationalists.
Matthew HarrisGUEST
And if some of you don't know this, the Congregationalists, that's what we call them today, but they're Puritans is what they are.
Matthew HarrisGUEST
They never identified as Puritans, but they live in New England.
Matthew HarrisGUEST
They're believers in John Calvin, who's the intellectual godfather of Puritan religious thought.
Matthew HarrisGUEST
What that means is, is that you were to pay a state tax to support that religion, whether you believed in it or not, whether you were religious or not.
Matthew HarrisGUEST
That's the nature of state supported religions.
Matthew HarrisGUEST
And so here you have a minority religion, the Baptist religion, in Connecticut, and these Baptists, they write Jefferson, who's then the president, and they say, look, we're paying our hard-earned money to support the Congregationalists.
Jeremy BaileyGUEST
Just like members of the Federalist Party were going to be assimilated.
Jeremy BaileyGUEST
So it doesn't matter if you're a religious leader among the Shawnee or a religious leader among the Connecticut Congregationalist.
Jeremy BaileyGUEST
Assimilation's coming for you, too.
Jeremy BaileyGUEST
And so that's the kind of combination of the Press chapter and the Native Nations chapter.
Christopher HitchensSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
that guarantees, as you know, that there can be no clerical meddling in our public and political life.
Christopher HitchensSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And the shorthand phrase for that was uttered by the president in a letter that he wrote to the Baptists of Danbury, Connecticut, seeking refuge from persecution from the Congregationalists of Danbury, Connecticut, by the way.
Christopher HitchensSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's who they were afraid of, in which he said there will be a wall of separation forever on this point.
Christopher HitchensSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So I now have a new slogan for you.
Monty MaderHOST
Just wanted to throw that in there.
Monty MaderHOST
In 1925, an advertising executive named Bruce Barton, a Congregationalist minister's son, founder of what would become BBDO, published The Man Nobody Knows, which topped the nonfiction list for two years and sold three quarters of a million copies.
Monty MaderHOST
Its subject was Jesus.
Monty MaderHOST
The chapter on him was titled The Father of Modern Business.
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In 1932, a 34-year-old Methodist-turned-Reformed minister named Norman Vincent Peale took the pulpit of Marble Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, a congregation founded under the Dutch in 1628.
Monty MaderHOST
In 1935, a Congregationalist minister in Los Angeles named James Fifield founded an organization called Spiritual Mobilization to fight the New Deal in the name of Christianity.
Monty MaderHOST
funded by J. Howard Pugh of Sun Oil, Alfred Sloan of General Motors, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers.
Bob McEvoyHOST
He remained so right until his death.
Bob McEvoyHOST
Cromwell, on the other hand, was what we might think of today as a Congregationalist, a Puritan dissenter who rejected what he saw as liturgical intrusions into worship.
Bob McEvoyHOST
and the ceremonialism of the Anglican liturgy and communion.
Bob McEvoyHOST
So Cromwell had banned the Book of Common Prayer in public worship and he had abolished the episcopacy, that hierarchy of bishops and clergy.
Timothy DeckerGUEST
But you do see development over time as well.
Timothy DeckerGUEST
So someone like John Gill, who becomes a Congregationalist over time, you can kind of see the development of his thought.
Timothy DeckerGUEST
He will appeal to this as an argument for common suffrage.
Timothy DeckerGUEST
What I did find lacking among commentators is that question that I raised is exegetically, grammatically, who is doing the action of that participle carotenecentis, which is to elect or to put forth a hand for, you know, among the assembly for a vote.
Sookie SooksonHOST
Coincidentally, similar to those that had occurred two years earlier at the home of the Fox sisters, ministers were called to the Cook's house.
Sookie SooksonHOST
A Baptist, a Congregationalist, and even a Wesleyan minister, who all believed that the home was possessed by none other than the devil.
Sookie SooksonHOST
busy man what an honor although hume believed truly it was actually a gift from according to hume the knocking did not stop and a table started to even move by itself even though hume's aunt put a bible on it and then placed her full body weight on it according to lamont it still levitated shook spun And the noises didn't stop either.
Sookie SooksonHOST
In fact, all of the rappings and levitatings were attracting the unwanted attention of Cook's neighbors.
Mike HennessyGUEST
It's in a letter.
Mike HennessyGUEST
that Jefferson sent to the Baptists in Massachusetts who were afraid the Congregationalists were going to make Massachusetts a Congregationalist state.
Mike HennessyGUEST
And he said, no, don't worry about that.
Mike HennessyGUEST
We're writing in a separation of church and state that will protect the Baptists from the Congregationalists making official religion law in that state.
Mike HennessyGUEST
And that's it.
Mike HennessyGUEST
But it's been twisted into mean something else.
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