One interesting place that we visited during our trip to Leiden was the American Pilgrim Museum. It was a house…
Since I announced several years ago that I was writing a new biography of William Bradford, I’ve had quite a…
Bradford lived in Leiden during a truly formative period of his life, and we spent several days here. It has…
Aniwa Today. Photo by David Stanley under CC-BY 2.0 The story of John G. Paton’s ministry among the cannibal tribes…
Delftshaven, from which the Pilgrims departed Many Reformed churches today hold dearly to the principle of Semper Reformanda, or Always…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAsjfgqU8o I rarely cross post it here, but our church has a weekly podcast on theology and culture called The…
James Chilton is not one of the most famous passengers of the Mayflower. His name is not used alongside that…
While researching for my Bradford biography, I just came across a short poem about the Pilgrims. Seeing that it was…
Image by Jeff Nelson under CC BY-SA 2.0 I recently came across a snippet from a letter by Bradford that…
One of Amsterdam's famous canals Nieuwe Kerk, on Amsterdam's central square, was built in the 1300s. Bradford would have certainly…
We explore the closing days of the Civil War, when the victorious president Abraham Lincoln was struck down by the…
Painting of a Dutch Woman from this period by Rembrandt Two years ago I wrote a short article on the…