This New Yorker post is from 2014, but Rick Kennedy, author of a great new biography of Cotton Mather, brought it to my attention via Facebook.What would Cotton Mather think about contemporary movies? Tom O’Donnell speculates. Here are a couple of Mather’s...
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The Author’s Corner with Rick Kennedy
Rick Kennedy is Professor of History at Pt. Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California. This interview is based on his new book The First American Evangelical: A Short Life of Cotton Mather (Eerdmans, 2015) JF What led you to write The First...
Rick Kennedy Discusses Cotton Mather on a Boat in San Diego
Classic Rick Kennedy here. I wish I could be as cool as him. Check out his forthcoming book The First American Evangelical: A Short Life of Cotton Mather According to Kennedy, if Mather lived today he would be a blogger,...
Celebrate Cotton Mather 350th Birthday
I just got word that the Congregational Library in Boston is holding a birthday party for Puritan divine Cotton Mather on October 18, 2013. Peggy Bendroth and the good folks at the Congregational Library are calling the conference “Mather Redux:...