Connecticut didn't have a Thanksgiving in the 1620s. Henry VIII played a role in early Thanksgiving celebrations.

Why is there such a disconnected between contemporary reformed understanding of Israel and the Puritans? This is what I seek to explain in this article. To begin, it is important to understand that ...

A 1925 recreation of Brownscombe's earlier 1914 painting of the First Thanksgiving at Plymouth. (Public domain via Wikimedia Commons) Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of ...

In both England and America, their political experiments collapsed. But they left behind a spiritual legacy that still inspires. A new book by Michael Winship explores how the Puritans—those ...

BOSTON — “Fifty Shades of Grey,” Puritan edition? The famously strait-laced 17th-century sectarians who helped settle America weren’t nearly as priggish as you might think, a leading Puritan scholar ...

Suffering from poor health all his life, Richard Baxter preached, he said, “as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.” Living daily in the shadow of eternity gave the Puritans a ...

BOTH the contemporary and the historical Puritan are still involved in clouds of libel, of which the origins lie in the copious fountains of indiscriminating abuse poured out upon the Puritans of the ...

'Going To Church,' N.C. Wyeth (1941). Archival photograph, Brandywine River Museum library, Edward J. S. Seal Collection. When winter cold settles in across the U.S., the alleged “War on Christmas” ...