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At the end of the LGBTQ community’s celebration of Pride Month, it might be worthwhile to consider some of the downsides of pride and its opposite — shame, or humiliation.
The very concept of shame seems foreign to us today, like the stockades of the American Puritan era which were designed to humiliate those who violated what were then cultural norms and serve as a ...
Keywords Puritan, family life, New England, daily routine, chores, religion, education, ... Judge temporarily blocks EPA’s order to cut $20 billion in Biden-era ‘gold bar scheme ...
In Massachusetts, where some sources date the ban all the way back to the Puritan era, a campaign to repeal it made progress before stalling in the state Legislature in 2014.
Though J. I. Packer has earned the nickname "The Last Puritan," his many decades of Puritan-focused scholarship, teaching, and writing have helped to create a new generation of Puritan protégées ...
(The Center Square)—Maine business groups are supporting a Republican proposal to lift one of the remaining vestiges of the ...
The black-clad, steeple-hatted Puritan, walking warily to church with Bible in hand and musket on shoulder, is an enduring image of New England’s formative colonial era. In “The Wars of the ...
In Massachusetts, where some sources date the ban all the way back to the Puritan era, a campaign to repeal it made progress before stalling in the state Legislature in 2014.
The tombstones are remnants of Puritan-era craftsmanship that the Fannins take pride in preserving. Many of them are painstakingly carved with images of the “death’s head” — a foreboding ...