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...
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...
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,...
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:...
