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'The Churches, Southern Africa and the Political Contex' edited by Gerhard Besier and translated by Hugh Beyer is reviewed.

The Colony House, pictured here in 1980, was designed by builder Richard Munday in 1739. The Colony House is architecturally unique for Newport because of it's brick construction. It replaced an earlier wooden structure dating from 1687. Munday was familiar, through prints and drawings, of the baroque classicism of Sir Christopher Wren. The use of brick as a construction material suggests Wren's influence, as brick trimmed with free stone was common to his designs. Munday is also noted for his design of Newport's Trinity Church. Before construction of the McKim, Mead & White's Rhode Island State House in Providence, the Colony House, along with four other state houses, were used in rotation by the governor and legislature. ; https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/ri_architecture/1004/thumbnail.jpg

The United Church of Canada was created by an Act of Canadian Parliament in 1924, uniting the Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist Churches in Canada. This paper examines the confluence of religion, politics, and law that made it a forum for debate on the relationship between Church and State in Canada. A significant minority of the Presbyterian Church was opposed to the union and members of the House of Commons were concerned that both procedural and substantive fairness be met before assenting to the union. The merger of religious groups, rather than social or economic organizations, infused the process with tension surrounding freedom of conscience in religious matters, and the role of the State in matters of ecclesiastical concern. This paper also looks at the ways in which the debate reflected the changing face of Canada in the 1920s, by examining Parliamentarians' positions on the representation of women, the position of minorities, the need for religious freedom, the struggle for democracy, and the desire for progress.