
The Great Awakening in Beverly: The Disestablishment of First Parish Church
Wednesday, January 19, 2022 @7pm Eastern via Zoom The story of disestablishment in Massachusetts is often characterized as a struggle for the separation of church and state, waged between religious intellectuals, and punctuated by heroic legal battles in towns like Sandwich and Dedham. But the death of Beverly’s First Parish was not the result of disestablishment. Rather, upheavals brought about