The Puritans who settled New Haven did so in part to worship as they pleased. But they weren’t necessarily willing to offer that freedom to others—especially Quakers, whose pacifism and egalitarianism were deeply heretical, and whose tactics were needling and …
Tag Archives: Quakers
Distant Relativity
This day in 1638, New Haven’s Puritan settlers arrived. Get to know them a little with this 17th-century story from 2017. …
Worship and Peace
Paul Hammer once told a new friend he was a Quaker. The friend was surprised, Hammer recalls. “‘You mean there are still real live Quakers among us?’ As if we were a historical relic.” …