Tag Archives: Reformation

The Priest Who Pushed Back

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Five hundred and seven years ago, on the day we’ve come to know as Halloween, Martin Luther changed the course of history. The German Catholic priest and theology professor almost certainly had no intention of launching a movement that would turn Christendom inside-out and upside-down. But that was the outcome of… Read more »

The Great Emergence

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Churches are famous for rummage sales.  “Rummage” is a word that gets very little play in contemporary conversation.  It might be defined as “a confused miscellaneous collection.”  A rummage is a mishmash, a jumble, a stew, a hodgepodge, a clutter, or an agglomeration of a great many items that at first glance appear to have little in common.  We speak more… Read more »