Stories
the narratives it tells itself
Salem, 1692.
Nineteen people were hanged and one pressed to death on spectral evidence accepted by a court of Congregational magistrates advised by Congregational ministers. Five years later Samuel Sewall stood in Boston's Old South Meeting House while his confession of guilt was read out over him.
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The Scriptures
the texts that carry the stories — and everything elseThe Bible
The Cambridge Platform (1648)
The Savoy Declaration (1658)
The Kansas City Statement of Faith (1913)