Bunyan described the Design as " a mixture of Popery, Socinianism and Quakerism ," an accusation to which Fowler replied in a scurrilous pamphlet entitled Dirt Wip'd Off.

Many who have no love for Puritan doctrine, nor sympathy with Puritan experience, have appreciated the pathos and beauty of his writings, and his Looking to Jesus long held its own in popular appreciation with the writings of John Bunyan.

Although it is common knowledge that Paul moved west from Ackley, Minnesota with the Red River Lumber Company in about 1912, the town of Westwood claims to be the hometown of Paul Bunyan.

A large Statue of Paul Bunyan with a neutered Babe the Blue Ox was on site near the F-41 junction for many years.

A large Statue of Paul Bunyan with a neutered Babe the Blue Ox is on site in downtown Ossineke, on US-23.

After the first edition of the first part in 1678, an expanded edition, with additions written after Bunyan was freed, appeared in 1679.

Other connections are suggested in books not directly associated with either John Bunyan or The Pilgrim's Progress.

# The " River of the Water of Life ", with trees along each bank is the river Ouse east of Bedford, where John Bunyan as a boy would fish with his sister Margaret.

When Christian and Faithful travel through Vanity Fair, Bunyan adds the editorial comment: But as in other fairs, some one Commodity is as the chief of all the fair, so the Ware of Rome and her Merchandize is greatly promoted in this fair: Only our English Nation, with some others, have taken a dislike thereat.

In 1994, " The Pilgrim's Progress " and the imprisonment of John Bunyan were the subject of the musical " Celestial City " by David MacAdam, with John Curtis, and an album was released in 1997.

Powys was deeply, if unconventionally, religious ; the Bible was a major influence and he had a special affinity with writers of the 17th and 18th centuries, including John Bunyan, Cervantes, Jeremy Taylor, Jonathan Swift, and Henry Fielding.

In the 17th century the village became linked with John Bunyan, who used to hold services in a natural amphitheatre now called Bunyan's Dell.

2006 Eastnor Castle: Bussetti, José González, Aim, The Heritage Orchestra with Deodato, Amadou and Mariam, Arrested Development, The Proclaimers, Sebastian Tellier, Brian Eno, Lily Allen, Coldcut, Robert Owens, Biggabush, Nathan Fake, Jon Hopkins, Lambchop, Beauty Room, Bellowhead, Jamie Lidell, Vashti Bunyan, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Lou Rhodes, Neil Cowley Trio, Shri, Bugz In The Attic, Sparks, E. S. T, Digitonal, The Egg, Scritti Politti.

Then, through a series of incredible adventures, Daniel meets up with the legends that his father has spoken about-cowboy Pecos Bill ( Patrick Swayze ), lumberjack Paul Bunyan ( Oliver Platt ), and ex-slave and strongman John Henry ( Roger Aaron Brown ).

Migrating Bird-The Songs of Lal Waterson ( 2007 ) is a tribute album, with contributions from James Yorkston, Alasdair Roberts, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Vashti Bunyan, Victoria Williams and others.

She built a Bedfordshire hunting lodge with fine vistas, Houghton House, now ruined near Milton Keynes ), which John Bunyan refers to in his works, as the " House Beautiful ".

The band shared the bill with Vashti Bunyan on her US tour in early 2007.

There was a brief flowering of British and Irish progressive folk in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with groups like the Third Ear Band and Quintessence following the eastern Indian musical and more abstract work by acts such as Vashti Bunyan, Forest, C. O. B.

Also, Animal Collective's early albums identify closely with freak folk as does their collaboration with veteran British folk artist Vashti Bunyan, and The Microphones / Mount Eerie, who combine naturalistic elements with lo-fi and psychedelia.

They fought for forty days and nights, and Nanabozho killed Bunyan with a Red Lake walleye.

Some claim that the author of The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan, once lived in the village and drew his inspiration from the fair, and from the ancient route known as the Pilgrims ' Way, which passes nearby, on its way to Canterbury.

First Bunyan published Some Gospel Truths Opened in which he attacked Quaker beliefs.

Bunyan began his work while in the Bedfordshire county gaol for violations of the Conventicle Act, which prohibited the holding of religious services outside the auspices of the established Church of England.

John Buchan was an admirer of Bunyan, and Pilgrim's Progress features significantly in his third Richard Hannay novel, Mr Standfast, which also takes its title from one of Bunyan's characters.

" The river / death allegory was popularised by John Bunyan in his classic, The Pilgrim's Progress and the wording echoes the teaching of Jesus, to "... fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul.

* The hymn To be a Pilgrim, written by John Bunyan, – which includes a verse in which the first line reads, " Hobgoblin nor foul fiend / Shall daunt his spirit.

In the beginning the church, which was originally known as Gamlingay Old Meeting, was a daughter congregation of Bunyan Meeting at Bedford, becoming independent in 1710.

The Axe Murder Incident in August 1976 involved the attempted trimming of a poplar tree which resulted in two deaths ( CPT Arthur Bonifas and 1LT Mark Barrett ) and Operation Paul Bunyan.

The Design of Christianity, published in the following year, in which he laid stress on the moral design of revelation, was criticized by Richard Baxter in his How far Holiness is the Design of Christianity ( 1671 ) and by John Bunyan in his Defence of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith ( 1672 ).

The sculpture of Paul Bunyan was manufactured by International Fiberglass, which mass-produced identical sculptures to sell to stores such as tire or muffler shops ( thus the sculptures are generally referred to as Muffler Men ).

The series record for the Paul Bunyan Trophy is 34 – 23 – 2 for Michigan as the trophy was not added to the rivalry game until Michigan State became a full member of the Big Ten in 1953, at which point Michigan already held a 33 – 9 – 3 edge.

Another theory states that the song is based on a tall tale in which Cal S. Bunyan, Paul Bunyan's brother, constructed a railroad known as the Ireland, Jerusalem, Australian & Southern Michigan Line.

: This was the killing of two United States Army officers by North Korean soldiers in the Joint Security Area, near the Bridge of No Return, over the attempt to trim a poplar that obstructed vision between checkpoints, and heightened tensions on the border-this was followed by Operation Paul Bunyan, which ended in the felling of the tree by ‘ Task Force Vierra ’.

He contrasted the genuine Paul Bunyan tales, which had been so full of technical logging terms that outsiders would find parts of them difficult to understand, with the commercialized versions, which sounded more like children's books.

Daniel G. Hoffman said that Bunyan, a folk hero, had been turned into a mouthpiece for capitalists: " This is an example of the way in which a traditional symbol has been used to manipulate the minds of people who had nothing to do with its creation.

For Olson, however, " the point is that I personally was exposed to Paul Bunyan in the genre of a living oral tradition, not of lumberjacks ( of which there are precious few remaining ), but of the present people of the area.

There they meet a singing hobo who tells three tall tales which include Homer as Paul Bunyan, Lisa as Connie Appleseed ( a female version of Johnny Appleseed ) and Bart and Nelson as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn respectively.

* 1660: John Bunyan led an unauthorised religious meeting at a farmhouse near Harlington, for which he was arrested and taken to Harlington House.

Then after The Months came another masterpiece, the Helicon Vase, in steel, silver, and gold, priced at oco, which in course of time was presented by the ladies and gentlemen of the royal house to Queen Victoria on her first jubilee ; For the Philadelphia Exhibition ( 1876 ) Morel-Ladeuil produced " A Pompeian Lady at her Toilet ," following it in 1878 with the " Bunyan Shield ," a companion to the Milton.

During the years 1656-1657 Burrough and John Bunyan were engaged in a debate by way of pamphlets.

John Bunyan himself wrote a popular hymn that encourages a hearer to become a pilgrim-like Christian: All Who Would Valiant Be.