Puritans, the religious fanatics of the 17th century Massachusetts Bay Colony, ... The stick, a likely nod to a biblical shepherd’s staff, yields an image of stern authority.

Just think: Those stern Puritans, our Augustinian forbears, gave us limited government and liberty of conscience and popular sovereignty.

Lawmakers have long clung to one of the most vindictive tenets of the stern Puritan faith in a code of absolute values and suprahuman justice. But man is not now, perhaps, ...

(The Conversation) — Puritans and Pilgrims came out of the same religious culture of 1570s England. Pilgrims hosted the first American Thanksgiving, and Puritans arrived later.

The American Puritans of the 1630s and beyond were more ardent, and nervous about salvation, than the Pilgrims of the 1620s. Puritans tightly regulated both church and society and demanded proof ...

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.

Just think: Those stern Puritans, our Augustinian forbears, gave us limited government and liberty of conscience and popular sovereignty.

The American Puritans of the 1630s and beyond were more ardent, and nervous about salvation, than the Pilgrims of the 1620s. Puritans tightly regulated both church and society and demanded proof of ...