Community Corner
J. Stanley Lemons, PHD
Professor
Emeritus of History at Rhode Island College and Historian of the
First Baptist Church in America, Stan specializes in the history of
American culture. His scholarly interests and publications have
ranged over the topics of women’s history, African-American
history, popular culture, American religion, social reform, and RI
history. His volume in the Baptists
in Early North America
series was published in June 2013, and he has co-authored Decoding
Roger Williams, due to
be published by Baylor University Press in August 2014. He will look
at our church in the context of history.
Speaking during the morning worship service -- free will offering