Mary Penington, who lived through the turbulent years of the English Civil War, is well known amongst Quakers as the mother-in-law of William ...

A horn book was a sort of paddle which featured a piece of parchment or paper on which was written the alphabet, the Lord's Prayer ... Heavily influenced by Puritan thought, parents in the ...

In the fall of 1636, she accused Puritan ministers of making salvation ... Charles Grandison Finney was also the most famous revivalist of the Second Great Awakening. He did not merely lead ...

Down the street was the Methodist church, named for the methodical study and prayer practiced by a small ... just as their less animated Puritan neighbors were known for violently shuttering ...

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In many ways, the United States was founded by what current Americans might call a cult. The Puritans were a radical, high-control group with doomsday beliefs, a fact we rarely acknowledge.

Earlier this month, the Holy Father expressed his particular gratitude for children’s continuous prayers for his recovery and return home to the Vatican. “I know that many children are praying ...

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