Why it was so important for them to bring those people back into forward if you will. If possible. If not possible, then to thank you would you please go away. Okay . So, what were going deal with today are larger problems. That are not necessarily individual behaviors, but people who are spousing ideas, and belief systems. And practice them and acting upon them. That are not just misbehaviors. But really question and shake the foundation of puritan society. That whole experiment. What happens when somebody starts to question that. What happens when people start believes and express believes. That run entirely counter to that. Because we talked about remember how important it was to them to make sure they were doing it right. Okay, according to to their understanding of their Christian Faith. They had to do it this particular way. If they didnt do this particular way, then they were going to run the chance of being abandoned by god, right . 1o which was a horrible thing. One of the mos
Affiliates and visiting cities across the country. Next well go to West Virginia university where professor Kevin Gooding teaches a class on puritans and early colonial america. And what religious freedom meant to them. This class is about an hour. Okay the story so far, not the entire story from the whole semester. Where we left off on monday. Monday we dealt with how the puritans approached people who engaged in misbehaviors and talked about those and how familiar they were. To anybody walking up and down high street on a friday or saturday night. Okay. And how they approach them, how they dealt with people, who engaged in those behaviors, and why. Why it was so important for them to bring those people back into forward if you will. If possible. If not possible, then to thank you would you please go away. Okay . So, what were going deal with today are larger problems. That are not necessarily individual behaviors, but people who are spousing ideas, and belief systems. And practice th
You saw kentucky senator rand paul coming out and members of the Senate Republicans had their weekly conferences. Democrats, to but on the republic inside their meeting with President Trump for the first time up on capitol hill for one of these tuesday mornings. Were expecting comments from leaders shortly and the senate gaveling in momentarily. Cant bring those, live to you on cspan2 we are streaming them live online at cspan. Org. We will take you back to the next senate floor. Live coverage of cspan. Org. The presiding officer the senator from kentucky. Mr. Paul are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer the senate not in a quorum call. Mr. Paul okay. Id seek recognition. The presiding officer the senator from from kentucky. The senator recognized. Mr. Paul we currently have a 20 trillion debt, and you might ask yourself whose fault is it . Republicans or democrats . The easy answer is, both. Both parties are equally spock, equally both parties are equally responsible, equally
Washington, dc. [inaudible discussion] hello, everybody. Wow, what a treat we have. I am so honored to introduce our next author. Shes a elegant and exciting writer. She is the kind of person that other writers just adore. Stacy schiff, and boy does she know how to pick a good topic. Unbelievable. Even jon stewart whereas interested in cleopatra. She is she brought to life cleopatra in a way that nobody else had and a lot of people knew cleopatra for a long time. Of course, she has won so many prizes, fatherly ridiculous. When she was a child she won the Pulitzer Prize for writing viera about the wife of vladimir nopokoh and a runnerup nor pull later in 1995. And when you see how young she is, its superannoying most of our writerred. Ron cher said even if force forced to at gunpoint, stacy ship would be incapable of writing a dull page or sentence. And david mccullough, always writes best sellers, love what he said about her. History in the hands of stacy schiff is in invariably full o
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