{"id":358,"date":"2010-11-21T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/11\/recalling-the-mayflower-compact\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:03:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:03:29","slug":"recalling-the-mayflower-compact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/11\/recalling-the-mayflower-compact.html","title":{"rendered":"Recalling the Mayflower Compact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

On this day in 1620 (okay, November 11, Old Style) a raggedy band of Pilgrims sitting in their leaky ship created and signed a compact before debarking and establishing their colony.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CbjWqsC0Lpk?fs=1<\/a>\n

While it is done in the face of the divine, it is essentially a compact among people. <\/p>\n

It is generally considered the ancestor of our system of self-government (as well as what would be the spiritual governance of Congregational and later Unitarian churches\u2026)<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a computer reading the text, the only bare reading of the text I could find at Youtube.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s short. Everyone should have some experience of it.<\/p>\n

And what better day than on the anniversary of its signing\u2026<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bVCnUCwke3E?fs=1<\/a>\n

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On this day in 1620 (okay, November 11, Old Style) a raggedy band of Pilgrims sitting in their leaky ship created and signed a compact before debarking and establishing their colony. While it is done in the face of the divine, it is essentially a compact among people. 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