Reformation

Frederick the Wise supposedly had a dream the night before Luther posted his theses in...

Luther and the Reformation had a major cultural impact, from the promotion of universal education...

On June 25, 1530--492 years ago last week--seven principalities and two cities presented a confession...

For Reformation Day, the four ways the Reformation differed from Catholicism and the myth of...

Five hundred years ago, the Vatican was struggling against a reform movement out of Germany. ...

When evangelicalism was popular, virtually all denominations tried to emulate it, resulting in a loss...

Reformation Day is about "re-forming" the Church; that is, to return to its "substantial form"...

Reforming means fixing what is broken, returning something to its essence. The contemporary church today,...

Today, June 25, is the 489th anniversary of the presentation of the Augsburg Confession, which...

The Church is discredited:  plagued by corruption, including sex scandals.  Trusting human leaders whose failures...

The priest sex-abuse scandal is the biggest crisis to hit the Roman Catholic church since...

Yesterday's post on the Reformation of America, made me realize that the distinction between revolution...

A revolution approaches problems by overthrowing the old order and replacing it with something completely...

What better way to mark the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation than to read Luther's  95...

The 500th Anniversary of the Reformation--which is today--has received an extraordinary amount of attention.  As...

Luther didn't split the church. The pope did.

The 500th anniversary of Luther's posting of the 95 Theses is soon upon us (next...

I was asked to write a guest post for the Tabletalk blog on "Why Luther?"  Others, such...

The Reformation, whose 500th anniversary is next month, had as its purpose the reformation of...

Does acceptance of same-sex marriage on the part of a Christian constitute "heresy"? It may...

The communion practice of the Roman Catholic Church, up until Vatican II, was for the...

As the world reflects on the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation, it...

In another in our series of my-former-students-who-are-making-me-proud-by-their-writing, Gracy Olmstead explains why today's conservatives need to...

Marshall McLuhan, who basically invented the study of media, became an icon of the 1960's...

Christianity Today has announced its 2017 book awards.  The list of winners in all of...

As he mourns a death in his family, Mathew Block brings together the Reformation and All...

You have GOT to read The Relic Master, a novel by Christopher Buckley (son of...

The Wall Street Journal has published an excellent account by Joe Loconte on Luther, the...

I've been reading various cultural critiques of the mess we've gotten ourselves into, and several...

Consider this quote from Timothy George, in our recent Christianity without the Atonement post: The problem...