On Oct. 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses, a list of propositions aimed at problems in the Roman Catholic Church, to the door of the university church in Wittenberg, Germany. He wanted to ...

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

This story appears in the Reformation turns 500 feature series. View the full series. A woodcut from a 1568 Protestant pamphlet shows Martin Luther and other Protestants withstand attacks from the ...

Two matters, both of them of greatest importance, are before us. On the one hand, there is the Reformation, a decisive turning point in church history. What is more, it is not merely an event of past ...

Nearby is the Town Church of St. Mary, where Luther was married, where his children were baptized, and where he preached over 2,000 times. This is where what many consider to be the first-ever ...

I teach at a small evangelical college, and last September I had the privilege of addressing my colleagues on ecumenism from a Catholic point of view. “Ecumenism” is that fancy word for how Christians ...

Almost 500 years ago, on Oct. 31, 1517, German monk Martin Luther strode up to the door of All Saints Church in Wittenberg and nailed his 95 Theses for debate. He was attacking widespread abuses in ...

In Honolulu last week, 1,300 bishops, priests and laymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church met under Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill for their 58th triennial general convention—the first held ...

“As a pastor, you shouldn’t take a stand one way or the other. You should just be neutral.” I often hear lines like this from church members. I’m guessing they haven’t read Anna Mad­sen’s new book, ...

The discussion among Protestant churches themselves is a matter wholly different from the discussion between the Protestant churches and Rome. All the Protestant churches trace their origin back to ...