In Puritan New England, the church was the center of life. Sermons alone could last to up to three hours. Compare that to the relatively brief services of today.

The church-state conflict began when Puritans, envisioning a Christian nation, founded what John Winthrop called “a citty upon a hill” in Massachusetts, ...

On October 13, 1652, after a day of fasting and prayer, 15 Native American men stood before a panel of Puritan church officials in Natick, Massachusetts. They had come to confess their sins and ...

The congregation of the Puritan Church, cornor of Lafayette and Marcy avenues, Brooklyn, have for several years been under a grievous and apparently immovable burden of debt.

Puritanism has its roots in the late sixteenth century, after Henry VIII broke ties with the Catholic Church. The Puritans believed that reforms had not gone far enough and advocated for a church ...

Some disenchanted Puritans departed to plant new colonies in the fresh air of the New World, where religious competition anticipated free market capitalism. As it did here. Most of the entrepreneurs ...

In that environment, the last thing that the church leadership wanted was some self-proclaimed theologian from the western hinterlands stirring up controversy. William Pynchon (1590-1662 ...

Puritan leaders argued vehemently for a church to be free of any higher authority – which caused problems in England and the new world. Mayflower 400: were the Pilgrims asylum seekers or ...

Conservators are working to restore colorful angels painted nearly 300 years ago at Boston’s Old North Church, a historic house of worship made famous by Paul Revere. Founded in 1723 in the ...