One of the great blessings of liberty we enjoy in our country is freedom of religion. The Founding Fathers of our nation ...

It’s incorrect to say that simply because people belonged to the same church, they agreed with one another, writes.

Quakers created the concept of nonviolent resistance about 400 years ago in England and practice it to this day, more than most know. Pacifist Quakers who once crossed the ocean to the American ...

The New England Puritans have been more blamed for their treatment of the Quakers than for anything else they did. It is that which is chiefly responsible for the charge of bigotry and religious ...

Mary Proude Mary was born in Kent in 1625, the only child of Sir John Proude and Anne Fagge. She was left an orphan when she was three after her father was killed fighting for the Prince of Orange in ...

Rhode Island’s Quaker deputy- governor desperately seeks peace while Puritan expansionists see only opportunity.

In the New World, Puritans had persecuted Quakers and Baptists, banning them from their colony and going so far as to put some to death. Anglicans in Virginia jailed Baptist preachers who entered ...

Blue laws began not with the Puritans but in England, in 1448, “when all England was Catholic.” Every American colony, Puritan and non-Puritan, Quakers included, had its quota of blue laws.

Hawthorne’s most famous novel—a mainstay on high school reading lists—has been the subject of some interesting myths and ...