No Puritans yet walk among us. That religious movement has long since dissipated into the hoary annals of the past. Wordsmiths will occasionally attempt a resurrection with the usual purpose

The supposition that Puritans, on both sides of the Atlantic, were party poopers and fun suckers, ashen-faced and humorless, is an image constructed by theater and novels. This caricature

When I was in elementary school, more decades ago than I care to admit, my family lived for two years in Tel Aviv. We were new immigrants from the former Soviet Union, part of the mass

The Puritan penchant for curious names for their children is well known. For example, Hate-evill Greenhill, a baby girl who may have been related to the Puritan commentator William Greenhill

American life is now riven by an unprecedented kind of political conflict that we experience everywhere, not just in elections but also in ordinary life. This political conflict is partisan

The most famous “thesis” concerning Protestantism and modernity is undoubtedly that of the German sociologist and historian Max Weber (1864–1920). The “Weber thesis” has to do with the

Books on Jesus’ ascension are rare; books on the Transfiguration of Jesus are rarer still. Accordingly, Patrick Schreiner’s volume T he Transfiguration of Christ: An Exegetical and

There are good reasons to avoid the subject of missionary Puritanism—it is too fraught. Nowadays, Christian missions reek of white-savior cultural imperialism (at best). Puritans have a bad

If you are a federal employee who has moral objections to referring to coworkers by their preferred pronouns, I would argue that you have two options (besides, of course, compromising on