Kicking Against the Pricks: An Interview with Chris Kelso internationaltimes.it - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from internationaltimes.it Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By God’s grace, only by God’s grace, do we celebrate Christmas as we do. I believe this to be true, although I am not at all churchy.
Pastor Tillinghast, one of my ancestors who founded the first Baptist church in America in the early 1600s, in Rhode Island, would be very disappointed, I’m sure.
But one of the blessings of this country is that freedom of religion is also freedom from religion. Church for me is more a means of tracing lineage the Catholic Irish, the Presbyterian Scots, our families’ new world tilt to Protestantism leading to both my wife and I being baptized as young children into the Methodist faith.