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.

Her subsequent research on Puritan spirituality helped pave the way for a new book—5 Puritan Women: ... Puritans, for starters, wanted to bring further reform to the Church of England.

Lori Stokes is an independent scholar who studies the founding decades of Puritan New England and Congregational church history. As Thanksgiving approaches, Americans look back on the first ...

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 CHURCH OF THE PURITANS AGAIN. Share full article. Jan. 17, 1861. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from January 17, 1861, Page 5 Buy Reprints.

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, ...

In fact the Puritans have gotten a bad rap. Puritans were smart, bookish, deep-thinking. They didnt want religion served up to them by some corporate, hierarchical, pompous church; they wanted it ...

“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 Purit… ...

People of the 20th century wonder about those Puritan churches of the 18th century, when Sunday services lasted hours and men with long poles nudged awake those who fell asleep during sermons. It&#… ...

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 ...