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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Puritans often serve as a punchline—the kind of people who would outlaw dancing—but their history is complex, and as Americans, we may carry their candle to a larger degree than you think. In ...

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 ...

Three days after my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida (at the time, arguably, another suburb of New York City), on the day that I started eighth grade in my new junior high ...

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 ...

Critics of the rigid and imperious ideological extremism of the modern Left now often reach for the vocabulary of religious fanaticism to explain what has happened to progressives. Sometimes that ...

If Bush wins," the US writer Barbara Probst Solomon claimed just before the election, "fascism is possible in the United States." Blind faith in a leader, she said, a conservative working class and ...

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 ...