Mainstream Hollywood has consistently avoided the dramatic story of German cleric Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation he sparked in the 16th century, but it has a long and proud history as a ...

If you're a Protestant, the anniversary of the revolution Martin Luther set in motion 500 years ago this Tuesday is a big deal. But even if you're not, it should be. The Reformation was one of the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Five hundred years ago, in the winter of 1524-1525, bands of peasants roamed the German countryside seeking recruits. It was the start of the German Peasants’ War, the largest ...

In October 2017, the world will commemorate the 500th anniversary of an act that led to an unlikely, astonishing and peculiarly divisive theological movement. This deed by a man who could not imagine ...

WITTENBERG, Germany — For the world’s roughly 800 million Protestants, a small corner of eastern Germany is their spiritual home — a place that takes on added importance this year, the 500th ...

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, ...

VATICAN CITY — The Protestant Pastor of the German church where Martin Luther preached and is known as the “mother church of the Reformation” has warned that the German Church’s Synodal Path is “the ...

“I do not deny that I seek peace wherever possible,” Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) wrote at the start of the Protestant Reformation. “I believe in listening to both sides with open ears. I love ...

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 ...

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 ...