Calvin

The first Puritans weren’t so much killjoys as ardent believers in honest living

7 December 2019 9:00 am

‘Puritan’ is a term of abuse, and we tend to use it to refer to such figures as the nightmarishly…

John Knox (Photo: Getty)

Full of sound and fury

2 May 2015 9:00 am

John Knox, Cranmer complained, was ‘one of those unquiet spirits, which can like nothing but that is after their own…