Not as Orphans

The Ascension and the Spirit of Adoption

On a summer day in 1712, 
a young woman stood up in the first church of Salem, Massachusetts
and publicly repented for her part in the Salem Witch Trials.
Her parents were dead, 
and she had been left to raise her eleven orphaned brothers
and sisters alone.
Jonathan Edwards would later say
that the American Great Awakening began
the day that woman stood…