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Crowds packed into the First Parish Church on Saturday to hear Sarah Vowell, a contributor to NPR’s “This American Life,” discuss the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, or, as she called them, “bickering Jesus freaks.?...
The Wordy Shipmates By Sarah Vowell Riverhead; 254 pages
As Sarah Vowell warns early on in The Wordy Shipmates, "Readers who squirm at microscopic theological differences might be unsuited to read a book about seventeenth-century Christians." She's right, for despite some lively writing, much of her tale of the settlers who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony involves...
With roughly three weeks until elections, the American cultural landscape stands on the precipice of a paradigm shift the like of which has not been seen in nearly a decade. The shift is one that will define a cultural vocabulary for the next four, if not eight years, and it...
The population today is only 25 families, most of whose adult members work for the training program. They include role players in the action scenarios, like Annalisa Kvamme, a mother of five, who played the blond woman wearing the suicide-bomber vest. Living in Playas has its challenges: six children...