Tisa Wenger

Benevolent Intentions

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Unitarian Universalists today may be surprised to learn that religious liberals were often at the forefront of U.S. empire. In this powerfully written book, Fred Muir shows how and why so many religious liberals in the United States joined enthusiastically in imperial projects. At a time when powerful forces aim to whitewash U.S. history, Muir insists that we must first grapple with its unwelcome truths if we are to secure more just futures.”

Reading Roger Williams

History & Biography

“Who was Roger Williams? You will learn to know him in this carefully curated collection both as a radical puritan who worked for the liberty of conscience as he understood it, and as a self-proclaimed ‘friend of the Indians’ who joined in the settler colonial conquest of Narragansetts, Pequots, and other Native peoples. This is an essential guide to Williams and to the contradictions and cruelties of the seventeenth-century English colonial world.”