The story we tell of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago is a window on how the past speaks to the present, and how the present imposes itself on the past. It is a story everyone ...

According to National Today, Martin Luther was aggrieved by the activities of the Catholic Church. Luther is believed to have disagreed with certain teachings of the Church, such as the priest acting ...

Christianity broke into two after Martin Luther pegged his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg's Castle Church. St, Mary's church, where Luther preached, is seen above. Michael Bader On Oct. 31, 1517, ...

Brad S. Gregory is the Dorothy G. Griffin Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of The Unintended Reformation and, most recently, Rebel in the Ranks: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sketch of groups of peasants wandering around the countryside during the German Peasants' War. Warwick Press via Wikimedia ...

Reformation Day, observed each year on October 31, marks Martin Luther’s influential stand in 1517 that triggered religious transformation across Europe. Luther, a German monk and theologian, boldly ...

On this day 500 years ago, an obscure Saxon monk launched a protest movement against the Catholic Church that would transform Europe. Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation changed not just the way ...

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 anniversary of the Protestant ...

Megan Searles pretends to nail 95 theses to a door as Martin Luther for Halloween. (Megan Searles) Martin Luther nailed his 95 disputation theses to the door of the Catholic church on Oct. 31, 1517, ...

As the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation ap­proaches, we can expect the publication of many books to herald and accompany it. Some may be wearisome, but others will provide genuine ...

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 ...