The Pilgrim’s Progress Revisited (Part 1)

John Bunyan’s Christian allegory as seen through the eyes of photographer F.G. Weller

This is the first in a series of posts about the book The Pilgrim’s Progress.

British religion in the 1600s centered around the Church of England. People who resisted the norms of the state-run church — including Matthew Henry, whose Bible commentaries are still popular among Christians today — were called nonconformists. Some of them ended up in prison.…