Category: Reformation

John 15:13 comes to mind when I contemplate the courage that Martin Luther exhibited the day he nailed his 95 theses to the Wittenberg door.  It reads, “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” Martin’s personal freedom of conscience was directly tied to helping others understand and obtain Biblical freedom of thought,…

History enlightens us that freedom is a difficult state to achieve and equally difficult to retain. Our current Political/social and Religious struggles remind us of this fact. While there are many in varying religious organizations who shudder at the name Martin Luther, there are also millions who celebrate. The reason I celebrate is because Luther is one of the extreme…

Historians and theologians will debate Luther until the end of time.  He remains controversial – think only of his views on the Jewish people or his justification of the brutal treatment of the peasants’ uprising.  But make no mistake his posting of the Theses set off a chain of events that continue to affect us. …

Martin Luther’s Reformation has had a profound impact on the modern world, not just the religious world but also in the secular world. It was not intended to be more than a call to reform the Church, but it has turned out to be a ringing bell of freedom for everyone. Today we are not…

“The Martin Luther Experience” implications exist throughout recorded history.  Control of humans is incomplete unless it controls beliefs related to an afterlife.  In recent history Evolutionary Theory for many includes “You only go around once in life so get all the gusto you can.” Historically,  dictatorship-links between government and one or more religious systems were…