The story we tell of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago is a window on how the past speaks to the present, and how the present imposes itself on the past. It is a story everyone ...

The concept of the Reformation as a discrete event, with a beginning and an end, is a relatively belated development. For ...

On Sunday, about 70 million Lutherans around the world, joined by Christians of many Protestant denominations, will commemorate the Reformation. This liturgical festival, marking Martin Luther’s 16th ...

The 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, a signal event in the history of Western civilization, will be marked on Oct. 31, 2017. A year-long commemoration began on Oct. 31, 2016, spawning ...

Christianity broke into two after Martin Luther pegged his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg's Castle Church. St, Mary's church, where Luther preached, is seen above. Michael Bader On Oct. 31, 1517, ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the death of an Episcopal Church presiding bishop, Pope Pius IV ...

Five hundred years ago this past week, a German monk in the town of Wittenberg posted controversial material on his town’s version of social media — the door of one of the local churches. Actually, ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — William Parsons, Sr. Pastor at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Fairhope joins us to talk about the 502nd anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation. Here’s a look at our ...

In August 1948, I nearly got into a fight. It was at the corner of Eighth Avenue and 10th Street in Marion, Iowa. The conversation started pleasantly enough. But Jimmy brought up the topic about who ...

A bit of historical research was making the rounds on social media recently, a monograph that compares the 21st century emergence of Bitcoin, encryption, the internet and millennials with the ...

Peter Marshall receives funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The story we tell of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago is a window on how ...