What was the matter with the Protestant Reformation? It might seem like a strange question. Some might say that there was nothing the matter with the Reformation, that it was the acme of spiritual ...

Recent debates about leaving Jesus out, or else getting him out, of the Christmas season look somewhat curious from the vantage-point of Rome. In what remains a culturally Catholic country, and at a ...

In 2017, Calvin College is observing the 500 th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. A series of events have been planned to commemorate the milestone year. On Thursday, March 9, the H. Henry ...

In 1517, Martin Luther ushered in the Reformation by posting his Ninety-Five Theses to a church door in Germany. Within a decade, groups formed that became the Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists and ...

The sun deity Beaivi withholds her rays in October, particularly in northern Norway, where in 1674, a beggar named Kirsten Iversdatter was bound to the stake. She had been accused of witchcraft, not ...

The Protestant Reformation that started in 1517 in Europe advanced onward with the completion of the American Revolution. Freedom of religion in America allowed new churches to be started here, ...

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St. Boniface, who lived on the bridge between the 7th and 8th centuries, is honored as the “Apostle of Germany” because of his work in Christianizing the pagans of those lands. St. Peter Canisius ...

(The Conversation) — The German peasants were among the first to try to unlock the revolutionary potential of Reformation teachings to fight social and economic injustice. (The Conversation) — Five ...