ARCHBISHOPS have been very much in the news these past few weeks. York has conventionally had 98 of them, if you start counting from Paulinus in AD 627 who was in, reality, just a bishop (it wasn’t ...

When I read that 52 percent of American adults say they believe in Santa Claus (according to a survey from Public Policy Polling), I wasn’t surprised to learn in the same poll that 42 percent ...

ARCHBISHOPS have been very much in the news these past few weeks. York has conventionally had 98 of them, if you start counting from Paulinus in AD 627 who was in, reality, just a bishop (it wasn’t ...

On the in-flight entertainment on my journey out here, I saw a fascinating documentary about how beer had driven civilisation through the ages. It claimed that, according to ancient records on the ...

Puritan theology “was not mere window dressing ... about the relative importance placed on them. When it comes to 17th-century New England, should one focus on English settlements and ...

Estes Park High School and Thespian Troupe 7284 students are busy rehearsing their latest production, Witches!? In Salem?! by ...

Freeman depicts a single Christian heritage in the United States. In fact, the 17th century Puritan ideal of a state-supported church that did not tolerate religious freedom, differed markedly from ...

Robert Eggers has only made four movies, but he is already celebrated for his unstinting focus on period detail. It turns out that he was inspired by the best.

You didn’t have to be out casting spells and stirring bubbling cauldrons in the dead of night to be at risk of being labeled a witch in the 1600s. Would you have been one of the accused?

"The Puritans were typical people of their time in that they enjoyed the pleasures of the 17th century. They liked to drink. They liked to sit and talk. They liked to eat well when they had the food ...