October 26, 2015: Digital issue for subscribers (Reformation)
The digital issue of the Presbyterian Outlook’s October 26, 2015 issue is now available! It is viewable on most computers, tablets, and smartphones. Click..
Here I stand if only
Here I stand; I can do no other.” I’ve heard those words more times than I can recall — mostly from pastors who were drawing a line in the sand and separating themselves either from a rival faction in the congregation or from their denomination of affiliation or both. However, many of those pastors ultimately sounded a different refrain: “If only I’d known what would have resulted, I never would have started this.”
Luther’s hammer blows still echo in religion, language, education, music
Martin Luther’s footsteps are all over Germany — where he preached, prayed and inspired people to think about God in a new way.
The Reformation: A History
The Reformation: A History, by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Viking, 2003. 700 pages
When I picked up McCulloch's magisterial history of the Reformation, I thought perhaps I would spend a couple of hours dipping into it. I was in for a surprise. This large work of nearly 700 pages became almost an obsession for me as I engaged in a dialogue with this British theologian who has given us a passionate and opinion-filled discussion of the events we call the Reformation.
Let’s reform Reformation Sunday
For decades Reformation Sunday has been on the annual calendar of many mainline Protestant churches in the United States. Held on a Sunday near Oct. 31, it commemorates Martin Luther's protest against the Roman Catholic Church. Often its observance has been a way in which Protestants distinguished themselves from Roman Catholics.
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