The Puritans were people on a mission: to create a pure church and a thoroughly Christian society. “In the short term,” writes theologian J.I. Packer, “they lost their battles and failed in ...

In the weeks since she became the Democrats’ choice for president, her views have been attacked by Christians on the ... Taft ...

They list at three of their findings on how the Bible fosters human flourishing: “First, Bible reading is likely to promote ...

Like the Pilgrims, the Puritans were English Protestants who believed ... to spread Spanish culture and Catholicism to the non-Christians in present-day Mexico and the American Southwest.

These were extreme Protestants who wanted to purify the Church of England by returning to the simple and uncomplicated worship and way of life of the earliest Christians. Many Puritans had fled ...

Not Christian, but believing in the divinity ... and goodness into the lives of rich and poor alike. Its origins were ambivalent—for Puritan and bishop, the great and the needy, for clarity ...

desperate people who were the perfect audience for the Christian message of eternal life. Like Jesus, Paul spoke to people in their homes and synagogues. But he went beyond Jesus, who had only ...

Indeed. America's founding fathers operated in a strictly white supremacist, patriarchal world and therefore would have ...

"Nowhere else [in Japan] was as Christian as Nagasaki was." At its peak, there were up to 500,000 people in Nagasaki that identified as Christian. Getty Images The Portuguese arrived in Nagasaki ...

Elizabeth was able to deal with the Puritan threat in Parliament as she had the power to simply close Parliament if they tried to discuss issues she did not want them to. Some Puritans valued good ...

Christian Angulo, Christina Irimie, Richard Aspinwall and Mason Schermerhorn were identified as the victims who died in the ...