You may have noticed: Today is the 50th anniversary of the death of JFK, C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley. Descendants of Massachusetts Puritans auction a book of psalms. Churches where Homeland was ...

On Thanksgiving Day, Americans often look back on the first English settlers in what is now New England. Since these Puritans fill the earliest chapters of the American story, they make plenty of ...

Just how Puritan was early colonial New England? The first legal code, The Body of Liberties, was written by a minister. Among the offenses that could get you put to death: worshipping another god, ...

(RNS) — Quick — what's the difference between a Puritan and a Pilgrim? Did either of them actually 'land' at Plymouth Rock? And who sat down for the original Thanksgiving? (RNS) — It’s time for that ...