Analysis: We see the warts of the Puritan legacy but the Pilgrims had a positive side, too
Professor Frank Bremer has spent his life researching the Puritans who settled in the new world. On the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower’s voyage, he reviews their attempts to create an exemplary society.
400 years on: the Puritans who took their faith to the New World
Jonathan Petre tells the story of the Puritan separatists who left Plymouth for the new world in September 400 years ago, later to be joined by ‘saints’ from Suffolk, as the American dream began.
Religion news 28 August
English cathedrals emerge from lockdown with exhibitions, tours and events; Christchurch massacre victims’ families relieved at whole life sentence; five metre dreadlocks in obedience to the “coconut religion”.
