ARCHBISHOPS have been very much in the news these past few weeks. York has conventionally had 98 of them, if you start counting from Paulinus in AD 627 who was in, reality, just a bishop (it wasn’t ...

ARCHBISHOPS have been very much in the news these past few weeks. York has conventionally had 98 of them, if you start counting from Paulinus in AD 627 who was in, reality, just a bishop (it wasn’t ...

In a new book, pediatric infectious disease specialist Dr. Adam Ratner details the history of measles, a virus that’s often a ...

“Mr. President, the last four years there were times I’m sure you thought it was pretty dark, but look what God has done,” ...

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...

The Boston minister Increase Mather likewise referred ... Tuininga contends that “the reality is more complicated and disturbing.” Puritan theology “was not mere window dressing.” ...

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In the late 1600s, Tituba, an enslaved Indigenous woman of probable Central American background purchased by Puritan minister Samuel Parris in Barbados, became the first woman accused of ...

Ratner notes that when Puritan minister Cotton Mather advocated publicly in 1721 for variolation, an early form of smallpox vaccination, a grenade came crashing through his window bearing a note ...

You perhaps did the same since this sermon is typically included in anthologies of American literature as a specimen of Puritan homiletics ... forth — so that the minister was obliged to desist.