In our modern secular culture, to be called puritanical conjures up negative emotions. If you are puritanical, you a sexually repressed, a stick in the mud, you have no joy, too heavenly minded to be of any earthly good. It would seem that whatever this culture accuses people of being, probably the complete opposite is the truth. So, let CHM introduce you to the true Puritans. They were anything but “puritanical”, they were a dynamic, evangelistic, deeply spiritual and compassionate group of people that wore colorful clothes and loved to party in a pious sort of way. I would like to first read to you the "Did you know" section of the magazine and then read to you the second half of the article: "Gifted Founders" by Mark Galli. This episode, I will tell you about John Cotton, America's first Poet Anne Bradstreet, and Thomas Hooker.
This article can be found here in Issue 41
https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/issue/the-american-puritans
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