Editor’s note: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Every November, numerous articles recount the arrival of 17th-century ...
Belief in the spirit world is a key part of many faiths and religions. A 2023 survey of 26 countries revealed that about half ...
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 ...
Their treatment of Native populations appears hypocritical. But evangelism and conquest furthered the same underlying mission. In 1623, former Mayflower passenger Edward Winslow rushed west from ...
Not the story you were told about the Puritans? Plymouth Rock and all that? Imagine if we’d all been taught in grade school that: 1) the first Pilgrims came here from England for the purpose of ...
As Sarah Vowell warns early on in The Wordy Shipmates, “Readers who squirm at microscopic theological differences might be unsuited to read a book about seventeenth-century Christians.” She’s right, ...
Every November, articles recount the arrival of 17th century English Pilgrims and Puritans and their quest for religious freedom. Stories are told about the founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony and ...
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