The Protestant Reformation wasn’t just about religion it was sparked by deep frustration with Church corruption, indulgences, ...

500 years ago, Martin Luther posted his 95 theses and marked the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. On Oct. 31, 1517, the monk nailed his theses to the door of his Catholic Church in Wittenberg, ...

Few individuals in the history of the world have made a larger, more expansive impact on the course of humanity than Martin ...

On the night of Feb. 21, 1945, R.A.F. bombers made a brief but deadly trip over Worms, Germany. Next morning, when the fires died, little was left of the old Rhineland city. One of the worst ...

Of few men can it be said with absolute certainty that they changed the course of history. Jesus was one; so was Karl Marx. Still another was Martin Luther, friar of the Augustinian Order of Eremites, ...

A sketch of groups of peasants wandering around the countryside during the German Peasants' War. Warwick Press via Wikimedia Commons. Five hundred years ago, in the winter of 1524-1525, bands of ...

The 440th anniversary of that memorable day when Martin Luther first posted his theses on the door of the church at Wittenberg and launched the Protestant Reformation is about to be observed. For me ...

It was on Feb. 18, 1546, that the German priest and theologian, Martin Luther died at the age of 62, in Eisleben, Germany. It is fascinating that Luther, whose life predated the founding of the ...

In “Summer of Fire and Blood,” Lyndal Roper tells the story of the serfs who fought for a better life and the elites who co-opted their movement. By Thomas Meaney Martin Puchner’s “The Language of ...

Across Luther Country, from tiny Eisleben, where Luther was born in 1483 and died some 60 years later, to Erfurt, where he attended seminary, from Mansfeld, where Luther lived as a young boy, to ...

On Christmas in 1521, a former priest in peasants’ clothing delivered such an incendiary homily that, one cold and clear night shortly after, the churches of that red-roofed, gothic town would be ...