In “How the Woke Stole Christmas” (Free Expression, Dec. 22), Gerard Baker might as well have quoted Lord Macaulay’s smear: “The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the ...

So, Puritans and Pilgrims came out of the same religious culture of 1570s England. They diverged in the early 1600s, but wound up 70 years later being one and the same in the New World.

“Puritans” are no more at Harvard University. The Ivy League purged the word from its alma mater, “Fair Harvard,” taking out the reference to the English Protestants who founded the nation ...

Puritans believed they must seek out and convert Native Americans so as to “raise them to godliness.” Tens of thousands of Puritans therefore poured into Massachusetts Bay Colony in what became known ...

The Puritans lived what modern-day theologian J.I. Packer calls "holistic" lives, where vigorous activity, recreation, creativity, learning and enjoyment of the world was encouraged, but with a ...

Those Puritans were fruitful and multiplied. The elite colleges’ practice of admitting children of alumni ensured than many of their students were, and continue to be, literally descended from ...

For more than 150 years, the Puritans have gotten a bum rap. The colonizers of New England, credited with the first Thanksgiving, are most often portrayed as drab, glum and pleasure-hating. You&#82… ...

Today’s puritans advocate strict gender roles and perpetual guarding against what they view as heretical innovations--be they new interpretations of the faith by scholars such as Abou El Fadl ...

Puritans had strong moralistic doubts about participation in capital markets, and were prone to scold and eventually excommunicate merchants who used state of the art financial instruments and ...

“The climate fostered by the New Puritans is both humorless and totalitarian,” Rothman writes. He shows that its humorlessness in particular is more important than it might first appear, ...

MBAs vs. Puritans: Whose Values Will Lead to Economic Recovery? By Stacy Blackman. Updated on: April 26, 2010 / 12:05 AM EDT / MoneyWatch "The real story of the ...