Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When winter cold settles in across the U.S., the alleged “War on Christmas” heats up. In recent years, department store greeters ...

Edwards bestowed the riches of Puritanism on a world shaped by the Enlightenment. Modern Puritan.” That’s an oxymoron, right? Puritans, with their ultra-serious obsession with getting every detail of ...

A recent introduction to Puritan history rehabilitates their reputation and legacy. While presenting the major events and figures in Puritan history, Bremer attempts a recovery of the Puritan image in ...

A plague is a busy time for a man of the cloth. Cotton Mather was the most prominent clergyman in colonial Boston, the last in a line of preachers who had provided spiritual solace to the city from ...

Many things influence human behavior, and I don’t claim to understand all of them. I have had the most experience with the early New England Puritans' influence on how Americans act and react to the ...

James Eglinton is Meldrum Lecturer in Reformed Theology at the University of Edinburgh. In its ongoing aftershocks, the #MeToo movement has left the basic structure of liberal Western society creaking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Going To Church,' N.C. Wyeth (1941). Archival photograph, Brandywine River Museum library, Edward J. S. Seal Collection. When ...