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 Presidential Colloquium series at Hope College will conclude the first half of its exploration of the Protestant Reformation with the address “Dangerous Choices: Women, Clerics and Marriage in the ...

How Protestants regarded Martin Luther has evolved as the Reformation he engendered has likewise evolved, according to German Catholic theologian Father Peter Neuner. "To us Luther is not only a ...

ANDERSON, S.C. — Reformation Day is Tuesday and it marks the anniversary of Martin Luther's written critique of the Catholic church, including its selling of indulgences. As the story goes, Luther ...

Modern scholars have not been particularly kind to Lucas Cranach (1472-1553), the leading painter of the German Reformation. Critics have called him “a spiritual whore,” a “bootlicker of established ...

German church leaders, however, also see the Luther renaissance as an opportunity to bolster dwindling membership across the country. In October, the Evangelical Church in Germany dispatched a senior ...

I can’t tell you why there’s a clothesline with laundry strung across the dining room at Old Germany. And I wouldn’t begin to speculate why on both of my visits I was seated next to a dangling ...