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Aug 28, 20213 min read

Aug 24 Start of Non-conformism

On Aug 24th in 1662 the deadline arrived for all Christian Ministers to assent to the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. 2000 Puritans...

May 13, 20213 min read

May 14 Salem's Witch Trials

The town of Salem in Massachusetts witnessed an outbreak of 'Witch Trials' that lead to the execution of 19 people and destroyed the...

Apr 27, 20213 min read

Apr 27 Milton's Paradise Lost

Today the Puritan poet John Milton sold for ten pounds the copyright of his epic poem Paradise Lost. This lament, written after Cromwell...

Apr 3, 20213 min read

Apr 4 Easter Sunday

Today in the West, Christians celebrate Easter, the touchstone of the Christian Faith. In todays reflection we look at the boldness of...

Mar 22, 20213 min read

Mar 22 - The Great Awakening & Jonathan Edwards

Today we remember the revivalist preacher Jonathan Edwards who died today in 1758. His legacy is significant and the ripples from his...

Mar 12, 20213 min read

Mar 13 Rev John Harvard and his university

Today we remember how Harvard College was established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It...

Feb 17, 20211 min read

Feb 18 John Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress

Today in 1678 puritan preacher John Bunyan published an allegory called The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come....

Feb 6, 20211 min read

Feb 7 The Bonfire of the Vanities

In todays pod, we go back to the 7th of February and the year 1497, and remember how the famous ‘Bonfire of Vanities was lit today by the...

Jan 31, 20215 min read

Jan 30 - Cromwell and the day of two Executions

Today in 1661 the puritan, Oliver Cromwell, and former Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, was ritually executed more than two...

Jan 30, 20213 min read

Jan 21- The Pilgrim Fathers pray on US Soil

Today in 1621 the Pilgrims from England left their ship the Mayflower and gathered on shore at Plymouth, Massachusetts, for their first...

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