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 ...

Eric Jon Phelps knows a lot of things. He knows that the Pope controls the world. He knows that it was the Jesuits who poisoned him in Tampa. And he knows that we can avoid the Vatican's plans to ...

Americanism is profoundly Christian in its inspiration and worldview. It is profoundly Biblical. “We are the children of Abraham,” a seventeenth-century American Puritan reminded his fellow citizens.

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 ...

SUNDAY in America has been chiefly the Sunday of England in the seventeenth century transferred by the early colonists to the New World. It has always had the sombre tone of the period coeval with ...

READERS of the published Diary of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall meet frequent entries, in connection with his attendance on “ the solemn Assembly,” for worship in the meeting-house, of his and of his ...

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Just how Puritan was early colonial New England? The first legal code, The Body of Liberties, was written by a minister. Among the offenses that could get you put to death: worshipping another god, ...

Pastor Justin Paslay: I average 25-30 hours a week, and they are expositional sermons, explicated verse to verse. SDR: What’s your favorite sermon on which to preach? PP: Justification by faith alone ...