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 […]

One of the most important of the original 13 colonies was Pennsylvania founded by William Penn. Find out what made Penn a champion of religious freedom in this Providence Today report.

William Penn envisioned a grand haven in the New World where people who were distressed in conscience could come and find refuge. He called his great venture, “the holy experiment.”

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 […]

 We are free in modern America because of the sacrifices of those who went before us, such as the sacrifice our troops endured at Valley Forge. In this short video with Dr. Jerry Newcombe, we see how God used George Washington and his troops to help forge a great nation.

 In a very real sense, the United States was born in the cabin of the Mayflower in 1620 when the Pilgrims made a Biblical-type covenant. In this video Leo Martin, the founder of the Jenney Center in Plymouth, comments on the foundational link between the Mayflower Compact and the Constitution.

 In his Providence Today commentary, Dr. Jerry Newcombe explains how George Washington managed to liberate Boston from the British military, essentially without firing a shot.

 By God’s grace, George Washington was able to successfully lead a ragtag group of farmers and merchants to victory over the strongest army and navy in the world at that time. Dr. Jerry Newcombe dives into Washington’s victory at Yorktown in his commentary.

 In search of independence, the American Colonists went up against the most powerful army and navy in the world with only a group of ragtag farmers and merchants. In this short video, Dr. Jerry Newcombe discusses how Washington proved indispensable as the military leader, who, with God’s help, made independence become a reality.