This lecture introduces the voices of Roger Williams and Anne Bradstreet as important examples of the complexity of Puritan life. While Winthrop offered a utopian vision of Christian (and American) society, these voices suggest that Puritan values were far from universal or homogenous. Williams' emphasis on individual conscience in religious experience leads to a vital practice of tolerance (and one which would get him in trouble with authorities like Winthrop), and Bradstreet's moving poetry suggests a more human, embodied experience of faith that is often marked by a tension between piety and the lived experience of pain and suffering.