Lynn Minneman
At Salem United Methodist Church, our mission is to connect ALL people with God’s extravagant love through worship, service, learning, and community – empowering each person to experience and share the transformational love of Jesus Christ....
Those who confessed—or who confessed and named other witches—were spared the court’s vengeance, owing to the Puritan belief that they would receive their punishment from God. Those who insisted upon their innocence met harsher fates, becoming martyrs to their own sense of justice. Many in ...
In 1689, through the influence of the Putnams,Samuel Parris, a merchant from Boston by way ofBarbados, became the pastor of the village’sCongregationalchurch. Parris, whose largely theological studies at Harvard College (nowHarvard University) had been interrupted before he could graduate, was in...