Over this Thanksgiving weekend Americans look back on the first English settlers in what is now New England. Since these Puritans fill the earliest chapters of the American story, they make plenty of ...

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 ...

THIS year we are celebrating the third centennial of the landing of the Pilgrims, and our people are making an effort gratefully to recall the tremendous event. To do so requires considerable elfort; ...

"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 says.

The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to “purify” the Church of England of remnants of the Roman Catholic “popery” that the Puritans claimed had been retained ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

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 ...

Their most eloquent writing and preaching grew from a practical desire to communicate truth. Conversion is central to the Christian faith. From Jesus’ words to Nicodemus in John 3:3 telling him that ...