All posts tagged "theology"
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10.4K1MassachusettsHow John Adams Became A “Church going Animal”
It took a lifetime of study and reflection for John Adams to come up with his religious credo. In the end, the...
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17.4K1MassachusettsJohn Adams Gets Into Harvard, Barely
As a terrified applicant to Harvard, 15-year-old John Adams showed few signs of becoming a Founding Father, diplomat, statesman and president of...
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19.2KConnecticutIn 1674 the Connecticut Rogerenes Test the Limits of Religious Freedom
The Rogerenes were an unusual group of religious dissenters formed in New London, Conn., in the late 1600s. They took their name...
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11.6K5MassachusettsYoung John Adams Struggles With School, Vexes His Parents
Young John Adams frustrated his pious father and vexed his hot-tempered mother with his dislike of school and love of the outdoors....
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11.9K3Arts and LeisureThe Franklin Library, Not Quite What the Town Wanted
In 1790, the townspeople of Franklin, Mass., decided they wanted a bell. They got the Franklin Library instead. The library opened its...
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31.0K7ConnecticutThe Puritan Divorce Allows Escape From the Chain of Matrimony
When Elizabeth Luxford found out her husband James already had a wife, she went straight to the Court of Assistants in Massachusetts...
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