Puritan efforts to crack down on Christmas revelries in England ... Minister Increase Mather loathed Christmas celebrations.

Making movies requires so many people, so much money, and so much good luck that it’s surprising that any of them are good.

Being a finalist for the CBC Literary Prizes can jump-start your literary career. Need proof? Here are some books that were ...

Understand that Robert Eggers didn’t decide to make an adaptation of the 1922 silent German film “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” on a whim. In the director’s statement for his “Nosferatu,” which ...

For the outing—his first major red carpet moment since the Transformers: Rise of the Beasts premiere in June 2023—Pete ...

A new study charts John Milton’s influence on revolutionary thinkers but misses the sheer seductiveness of his masterwork.

With Christ, though, our sins and weaknesses are the very tickets that qualify us to approach him. Nothing but coming to him is required—first at conversion, and ten thousand more times.

As the mass rape trial in Mazan, southern France, draws to a close we look at whether the sheer horror of the case - and the ...

I believe the love of Christmas coupled with the loathing of Christianity is one reason why atheists continue to repeat the ...

And while Melloan in no way glossed over the myriad of errors the federal government made in the 1930s on the way to a sluggish economic decade for the United States, his book was a reminder of two ...

In their effort to distance themselves from the Catholic church, Protestant leaders in Germany promoted the Christmas tree to replace images of ... sacrilegious. Puritan colonists in Massachusetts ...

Meanwhile, the Jumbly Girl, the mother character, resents the burdens of domesticity and espouses a “puritan feminism ... and becoming huge.” A picture emerges of two parents who are ...