Frameshift

New England today has one of the least religiously-inclined populations in the United States. But Connecticut and Massachusetts started out 400 years ago with establishment churches enshrined in law. How did these colonial theocracies rise, thrive and eventually dissolve? In a two-part series, we explore the church-state dynamic in early Connecticut. Part one encompasses from the founding of the colony in the early 1600s to the first victories for religious pluralism in the early 1700s.