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A most curious holiday
As one learns more history, it becomes clear this story is patently ridiculous; the relationship between the English Puritan interlopers ... a "day of solemn prayer" declared around the same ...
European films have the best-looking girls; they also have a natural, if sometimes amoral, attitude toward sex, somewhere between a shrug and a prayer ... In short, the Puritan ethic, so long ...
In our modern world, moving at such an ultra-fast pace, it can feel like our cities are getting stripped of their history and ...
The hamlet’s only phone sat in the general store across the street from the Coolidge family home ... Coolidge said a short prayer, and he and Grace went downstairs. A discussion ensued, and ...
In the first episode of this series, Alice Loxton and Anouska Lewis explore Elizabeth's family ... leader of the Puritan group in Parliament, wanted to reform Elizabeth’s new Prayer Book.
Born in Northampton, England, in 1612, Anne Bradstreet and her prominent Puritan family emigrated to America and settled in Massachusetts. Bradstreet’s poetry is a snapshot of politics ...
How marvelous to dwell on Peter’s words, “Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you at the ...
Joel R Beeke, president of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, meanwhile, stressed that prayer is "just kind of a parentheses ... about spiritual things with every other person except his family.