BETHESDA, Md. -- Just in time for Eastertide, George Fox University Professor Mark David Hall has written a book that portrays Puritans as champions of literacy, defenders of due process, enemies of ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1630, the Puritans fled England to the Massachusetts coast, looking to evade religious persecution. Within 20 years, they had become the ...
The Church of England became Protestant in the 1500s. Two groups, the Pilgrims and Puritans, sought to purify the church of Catholicism's "popery" and of the "corrupt practices of Rome." The ...