By 1660, the British people were crying out for a king. Most had never fully taken to the Cromwellian vision of a republic. A return to a monarchy was inevitable, but not without opposition.
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Revd Dr Richard Turnbull opened The Christian Institute’s fourth Autumn Lecture challenging the idea of the Puritans as “straight-laced bigots”. Instead, he argued, they were people attracted to a vision of Jesus Christ in a way we need to learn from today.
On 25 November 1748, the father of English hymnwriting, Isaac Watts, died at the age of 74.
The animals went in two by two. Or did they?
Oliver Cromwell is a man who divides opinion like few others, but his heart was to unite the godly, rather than foster division.
