Over the past four years, conservative evangelicals have compared Donald Trump to King Cyrus, Queen Esther, Daniel, David, and Sampson. And now they have a biblical character for vice-president Kamala Harris: Jezebel. For those unfamiliar with this biblical character, she...
Anne Hutchinson
What If Your Faith Makes You “Unpatriotic?”
I am in Boston this week filming a series of lectures for an on-line course on colonial America produced by the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History. We have been shooting short introductions at places like the Long Wharf, Old South...
Who Suffered the Most From Today’s Clinton-Benghazi Hearings?
A woman has not been grilled by members of a government committee in this fashion since the 1630s when Anne Hutchinson sat before John Winthrop and the Massachusetts clergy to defend her supposedly unorthodox religious beliefs. Hillary Clinton suffered today...
Why We Need Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson is fun to teach to evangelical students. Many of them are conflicted about her legacy in American culture. Some of them see her as a prototype for evangelical feminism, religious freedom, and the good old American spirit of...
Sarah Palin as Anne Hutchinson?
This week my United States Survey to 1865 course we will be reading the 1637 transcript of Anne Hutchinson’s trial before magistrates of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Coincidentally, a few bloggers have been making comparisons between Hutchinson and Sarah Palin....