The Lord is My Shepard

Painting by Bob Johnston of Green Pasture and Trees to go with The Lord is My Shepard...... more

by Bob and Nadine Johnston

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The Lord is My Shepard

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Bob and Nadine Johnston

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Painting by Bob Johnston of Green Pasture and Trees to go with The Lord is My Shepard...
The Lord was Anne Hutchinson's Shepard, during one of the most trying times of History of the Boston Church. Anne was a Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and important participant in the controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. Her strong religious convictions were at odds with the established Puritan clergy in the Boston area, and her popularity and charisma helped create a theological schism that threatened to destroy the Puritans' religious experiment in New England... She was eventually tried and convicted, then banished from the colony with many of her supporters.

Born the daughter of Francis Marbury, an Anglican minister and school teacher who gave her a far better education than most other girls received. She lived in London as a young adult, and married an old friend from home, William Hutchinson. Anne soon became well established in the growing settlement of Boston in New England . Anne was a midwife, and very helpful to those needing her assistance, as well as forthcoming with her personal religious understandings. Soon hosting women at her house weekly, providing commentary on recent sermons. These became so popular that she began offering meetings for men as well, including the young governor of the colony, Henry Vane.

Anne espoused a "covenant of grace," while accusing all of the local ministers (except for Cotton and her husband's brother-in-law, John Wheelwright) of preaching a "covenant of works." Following complaints of many ministers about the opinions coming from Hutchinson and her allies, the situation erupted into what is commonly called the Antinomian Controversy, resulting in her 1637 trial, conviction, and banishment from the colony. With encouragement from Providence founder Roger Williams, Hutchinson and many of her supporters established the settlement of Portsmouth in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations . After her husband's death a few years later, threats of Massachusetts taking over Rhode Island compelled Hutchinson to move totally outside the reach of Boston, into the lands of the Dutch. She settled with her younger children near an ancient landmark called Split Rock in what later became The Bronx in New York City.
Tensions with the native Siwanoy were high at the time. In August 1643, during Kieft's War, Hutchinson and all but one of the 15 other members of her household were massacred during an attack. The only survivor was her nine-year old daughter, Susanna, who was taken captive.

Hutchinson is a key figure in the development of religious freedom in England's American colonies and the history of women in ministry. She challenged the authority of the ministers, exposing the subordination of women in the culture of colonial Massachusetts. She is honoured by Massachusetts with a State House monument calling her a "courageous exponent of civil liberty and religious toleration." She has been called the most famous English woman in colonial American history.

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September 22nd, 2014