Almost everything we know about Anne Bradstreet comes from her poetry in which she combined the longings of the human heart with a devout Christian faith. Though her poetry was admired by many contemporaries, she was criticized by some…
Read moreLong before becoming the governor of Massachusetts, John Winthrop had a deep under-standing of God’s divine purposes for the colony. “We shall be a city set on a hill,” he said of Boston where the church was the center…
Read moreWilliam Bradford, the second governor of Plymouth colony elected to fill the place of the deceased John Carver, was responsible for the infant colony’s success through great hardships. The Pilgrims were part of a strain of Puritanism know…
Read moreI have been a student of revival and spiritual awakening since I was converted to Christ in 1985 as part of a church outreach ministry to young adults in Boston. Since that time, I have been in the middle of…
Read moreLook to the Northeast College Campuses! The academic institutions of the Northeast, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and several others, are “lynchpins” in the American university system. Philosophies which are born and bred in the classrooms of these schools are later…
Read moreChristian Leaders of Massachusetts On the following pages are listed the top ten Christian leaders in Massachusetts history. Literally hundreds of names could have been included. No doubt, there are more than a few glaring omissions. Ever s…
Read moreIt’s happening all over the world! AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY, 80 percent of the world’s Christians were in the Americas and Europe. The number is now only 40 percent, because most of the new Christians are in…
Read moreLouis Farrakhan is known by his followers as being “a better orator than Martin Luther King Jr., a better author than Norman Mailer, a better diplomat than Henry Kissinger, and more handsome than Muhammad Ali.” Let’s take a look at…
Read moreRecent test results have revealed that the average American student today has stronger skills in the school subjects of Math and English than the students of a generation ago. This is a result of the so-called “back-to-basics” movement which began…
Read moren 1636, Anne Hutchinson, the wife of one of Boston’s leading citizens, was charged with heresy and banished from Massachusetts Colony. A woman of learning and great religious conviction, Hutchinson challenged the Puritan clergy and asserted her view of the…
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