Dr. Peter A. Lillback: Here at the National Constitution Center in the big open vestibule that welcomes you, there’s this marvelous display of flags that take you all the way around from a panorama of the Philadelphia skyline to Independence Hall on the far side. As you take a look at the panorama of state […]

Dr. Lillback: Welcome to Providence Today. We’re in historic Philadelphia again, and we’re at a place as you can see, if you look over here, it’s called Welcome Park. Welcome Park is a place where we commemorate William Penn. There’s his beautiful statue, that is a mini version, essentially, of what you see on the […]

Dr. Peter A. Lillback: Providence Today has you at Welcome Park in historic Philadelphia, the place where William Penn lived for a couple years in a slate roof house while he was here in his city, Philadelphia. We want to give you a quick overview of William Penn’s life and how it was used in […]

Jerry Newcombe: Education lays the foundation for the next generation in each society. In early America, the Bible was the key to education, even in how children learned their ABCs. The Puritans set the tone for this and ended up creating a society which was among the best-educated societies in the history of the world. […]

Jerry Newcombe: American history has been under close scrutiny recently. The original sin of America, its birth defect, if you will, was the allowance of slavery, which began in 1619. In fact, some on the left are saying that America’s real birth year is 1619, not 1776. Although to my knowledge, no reputable historian believes […]

Jerry Newcombe: Anybody who investigates the origins of the colonies of British North America will see that the Christian faith played a major role in why these colonists came over to America in the first place. Education was front and center primarily for one reason which was so that men and women, boys and girls […]

Jerry Newcombe: Have you ever noticed a license plate from Connecticut which says the Constitution State? Why is that? We know the Constitution was written in Pennsylvania, not Connecticut. But the first fully developed Constitution written on North American soil was written in Connecticut. As we shall see, that Constitution was inspired by a sermon […]

Jerry Newcomb: Throughout history, many governments have not respected the right of conscience, yet god alone is to be the Lord of one’s conscience, says the Westminster Confession of Faith written in the 1640s. One of the very first outpost anywhere to honor the right of conscience was the Puritan colony in the new world […]

Speaker 1: Religious freedom is a precious gift from God, but it has not always been the norm, even among Christian rulers. The early settlers of America were seeking religious freedom when they came here, and they ended up creating a land religious freedom ultimately spilled over into other freedoms. Our story begins in England […]

Jerry Newcombe: Imagine leaving your home, in some cases, your family, your home church, your livelihood in order to create a new life in a completely uncultivated land. Such was the case for thousands, upon thousands of Puritans from England in the 1600s who came to America. The Puritans were dedicated Christians who chose to […]