On Reformation anniversary, US Lutherans bridge divides with other faiths
RNS 500th anniversary of Reformation at Washington, DC’s Lutheran Church of the Reformation. PICTURE: RNS/Adelle M Banks Five centuries to the day when German monk Martin Luther is said to have nailed 95 theses to a church door in Germany, leaders of the largest Lutheran denomination in the US gathered to celebrate how they’ve bridged […]
ESSAY: WHY THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT IS AN HISTORICAL EVENT ON PAR WITH THE REFORMATION
American Jesuit priest THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, on why the rise of ecumenism is a cause for celebration and what the next steps are…
Germany marks 500 years since Martin Luther’s 95 theses sparked Reformation
Church and political leaders have marked the 500th anniversary of the Reformation at a service in Wittenberg’s Castle Church in Germany – the site where, on 31st October, 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses denouncing church abuses to the door. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier were both at the service […]
ESSAY: RECONCILIATION AMONG CHRISTIANS MIGHT BE CLOSER THAN WE THINK
As the world marks the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, US Catholic bishop, Rev MITCHELL T ROZANSKI, writes of the growing unity he’s witnessed among Christian denominations…
ESSAY: MARTIN LUTHER’S DREAM CHURCH? IT WASN’T IN EUROPE
The revelation that Ethiopian Christianity possibly had links to the Protestant Reformation is a game-changer for what is generally thought to be an exclusively European phenomenon, writes US academic and bishop, DAVID D DANIELS, in an article published on Religion News Service…
CASTING THE NET: LUTHER2017
With the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s world famous act of protest upon us, DAVID ADAMS find Luther2017 a good starting point for information about Luther and the Reformation he was a key player in…
REFORMATION 500: BERLIN EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS HOW NAZIS EXPLOITED MARTIN LUTHER’S LEGACY
EMILY McFARLAN MILLER and TOM HENEGAN, of Religion News Service, report…
REFORMATION 500: HERE HE STOOD – LUTHERAN PILGRIMS TRAVEL TO GERMANY FOR ANNIVERSARY
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER reports from Germany for Religion News Service…
THE BIG PICTURE: ‘500 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH, LUTHER NAILED IT…’
See OUTREACH MEDIA’s poster for October…
US Catholics and Protestants agree: 500 years after Reformation, they have more in common than not
RNS A statue of Martin Luther in Erfurt, Germany. PICTURE: RNS/Emily McFarlan Miller The theological differences that led to the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago have dwindled since in both the United States and Western Europe. That’s the finding of a Pew Research Center survey released Thursday, weeks before late October’s 500th anniversary of the […]