Join us for Episode 12, where we conclude the story of Roger Williams. This episode contains chapters 29 and 30. (03:11) Chapter 29: King Philip's War (53:17) Chapter 30: The final days of Roger Williams Roger Williams, who fled England and joined the Puritans and pilgrims at Boston, at Massachusetts Bay Colony, and then he founded his own colony, Rhode Island. Roger was a profound thinker who latched upon ideas that transported him to a point unique in America's history. Often when reading his life one wonders. How did he think that?

He was trained as an Anglican C conclusion at Pembroke College at Cambridge University in England. Fell in with the Puritans at his first job, sailed to Massachusetts Bay Colony with his wife Mary in 1630, and there he claimed he was now a separatist. Yet his thinking moved him to a point well beyond separatist thoughts every day.

He lived life as a pioneer on the American frontier. But he thought and wrote as a theologian, a political scientist and intellectual. In episode one of Roger Williams, I will read from my book The Noble Lives of the American Religious Thinkers and Believers, Roger Williams versus Cotton Mather. I will read parts of chapter One, early days and parts of Chapter Two, religious controversy in England.