Tag: Puritan

Today in Church (and U.S.) History

January 24, 2020

Harvard Chair Went to Doubting Wigglesworth How did America’s great Christian colleges come to abandon their faith and become the secular institutions they are today? When Harvard College was founded by the Puritans in 1636, they knew well what they wanted from their school. “Let every Student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider … More Today in Church (and U.S.) History

Today in Church History

January 23, 2020

Fur and Feathers Flew over Jansenism How wrong we were! I only had my eyes opened yesterday.” With those words opens one of Christianity‘s best-known religious satires–the Provincial Letters. The first of the letters appeared on this day in Paris on this day, January 23, 1656. But who wrote it? No one was saying. And with good reason. There … More Today in Church History

Today in Church (and U.S.) History

January 12, 2020

John Winthrop Made Massachusetts a Success Winthrop: Church and State Can you imagine the outcry if the Boston Globe were to announce that the Governor of Massachusetts had preached one Sunday from the Bible, using as his text, Christ’s “Sermon on the Mount?” Does the very idea sound ridiculous and impossible? Well, such an event did take place … More Today in Church (and U.S.) History