Evangelicals Behaving Badly: Stackhouse and Evangelical History
I was horrified on Thanksgiving Day to learn about the most recent case of evangelicals behaving badly. But this time it was one of our own, a historian.
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I was horrified on Thanksgiving Day to learn about the most recent case of evangelicals behaving badly. But this time it was one of our own, a historian.
When I looked at the archives, I found a history hidden in plain sight.
When I looked at the archives, I found a history hidden in plain sight.
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In the 1700s, Boston’s Brattle Street Church minister Benjamin Colman summed up the Puritan view of actors: That “wanton man” has succumbed to bold and immodest levity. He abandons “the gravity of reason and acts the part of a frolic colt,” Colman insisted. “He roars and frisks and leaps.” Few vocations encourage roaring and frisking and leaping as much as the performing arts. There were, therefore, few callings the Puritans despised more than acting.