https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to puritans en https://religiondispatches.org/2022/08/03/breaking-marilynne-robinson-over-her-refusal-acknowledge-dark-side-puritanism Breaking up is hard to do, and I am not at all prepared to discard my deep love and admiration for novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson . Among her novels, I treasure Lila in particular for its deep tenderness. Among… Wed, 03 Aug 2022 02:32:36 EDT Peter Laarman 8248eb8b-c655-4115-8922-fbe708844780 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/12/16/history-matters-400th-anniversary-plymouth-were-still-clinging-destructive-national Within William Bradford’s massive work, Of Plymouth Plantation, composed between 1630 and 1651 while he was occasional governor of the colony, there’s no mention of the eponymous rock upon which the pilgrims supposedly landed when they reached their permanent home… Wed, 16 Dec 2020 01:03:59 EST Ed Simon 195ba5e7-04de-4449-9b74-94dadb53d2d7 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/11/20/america-mythical-mother-exiles-or-denier-safe-haven Thanksgiving has been marshaled in the battle over what is the proper interpretation of the idea of America. With thousands of refugees looking for amnesty in that “last, best hope of earth,” will the better angels of our nature find room for them at the table? Tue, 20 Nov 2018 02:57:05 EST Ed Simon aeda40b8-b553-4959-8689-e2aabb23bc53 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/03/21/storytime-david-brooks-which-liberals-favorite-conservative-gets-lost-lily-white-history Personal research conducted among my lefty friends shows that for many liberals, reading David Brooks amounts to a kind of a guilty pleasure. Brooks is witty, urbane, occasionally brilliant, and he has been nothing but resolute against Trump and Trumpism… Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:58:31 EDT Peter Laarman 25365634-6e68-4bed-bce5-aaf10eb8620c https://religiondispatches.org/2016/04/28/maydays-demise-and-rise-our-gloomy-empire May 1 st 1628 was the second time that Thomas Morton had erected a Maypole at his colony in Merrymount; but it was to be the decisive event in getting him arrested and exiled by his fellow Englishmen. Morton—the forgotten… Thu, 28 Apr 2016 02:08:31 EDT Ed Simon bb5d0992-6a79-4c97-84d0-d7e811c35a13 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/12/21/what-did-puritans-have-against-christmas Another Christmas, another string of outrages about the supposed “War on Christmas.” In November there was the social media furor about Starbucks’ red cups, as Ed Simon relates here in RD. Then this month, 36 Republican U.S. House members introduced… Mon, 21 Dec 2015 05:08:39 EST Bruce David Forbes ce47356b-a48f-406a-bf4d-bd15a6f3e365 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/25/how-thanksgiving-became-all-dinner-no-worship Or, why we’re glad American culture settled on “Thanksgiving” over “Fasting and Humiliation.” Wed, 25 Nov 2015 08:36:26 EST Bruce David Forbes 57930533-780b-407e-917a-83229073da6d https://religiondispatches.org/2015/11/25/america-mythical-mother-exiles-or-denier-safe-haven In a quiet part of the London borough of Southwark, on a street running parallel to the Thames, there is an old, dark-wood paneled pub with leaded windows. Formerly known by the borderline obscene name of “The Spread Eagle ,”… Wed, 25 Nov 2015 07:48:06 EST Ed Simon 1013a383-45ca-419d-85e0-1741e62a4ae1 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/08/07/will-relic-change-our-whole-view-early-american-history It’s a news story that contains the ingredients of a paperback thriller, the sort of thing that reminds readers what they find so evocative about archeology. Researchers sifting through the ground at America’s first permanent English colony at Jamestown Virginia… Fri, 07 Aug 2015 01:03:25 EDT Ed Simon d2813255-2a90-44aa-af3c-7447fb04f826 https://religiondispatches.org/2010/08/20/dangerous-religion Throughout US history the perpetrators of religiously-inspired violence have usually been white Protestant men fearful of non-Protestant communities. Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:05:45 EDT Gary Laderman 78141b02-24a6-4ac8-9d81-7b6e24c55415 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/11/25/no-turkey-me-confessions-indian-militant Forty years ago, Indian militants, as they were then named, occupied the island of Alcatraz. In their memory, our writer reflects on both the bloody history of the first Thanksgiving, and the remarkable, enduring power of tribal tradition to create spiritual sustenance in the modern world. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:15:01 EST Johnny P. Flynn df17e458-9b47-4366-bf50-a16d533ffef4 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/17/sarah-vowells-wordy-shipmates-problem-popularization While the history of popularization is a history of regular folk learning about other regular revolutionizing folk and imitating them, comic book histories like The Wordy Shipmates do their part in ensuring that the next generation knows more about Beyoncé than Byzantium. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:24:54 EDT Kathryn Lofton 680eba39-4b3c-40d4-b2dd-f5a3c4f3a683 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/05/27/damning-america-right-and-left Reverend Wright’s condemnation of the United States made waves, but right-wing preachers have been railing against America’s sins for years. Wed, 27 May 2009 02:03:12 EDT Rosemary R. Ruether f249d2ff-ee7f-44d8-aa78-bfd60c282829