[audio src="https://storage.googleapis.com/communio-sanctorum/500Years-Part05.mp3" /] As we come up to the 500 year anniversary of Reformation Day, when Martin Luther tacked his revolutionary list of exceptions ...

His family name was “Black Earth,” as in the rich, fertile soil around his hometown. In German, Schwartzerdt. His first name was Philipp. He ...

By necessity due to time, we ended the last episode in the middle of recounting Luther’s great conversion experience, where he realized the righteousness  ...

We left off last time with the close of the Diet of Worms where Martin Luther informed the august assembled officials of both civil ...

Since we’re rapidly approaching the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation, we begin a short series on it’s beginning ...

In Season 1 we spent a little time tracking the Enlightenment’s impact on the Christian Faith. Dual impetuses emerged; one leading to Liberalism, the ...

Years ago I watched a TV show with fascination as the host, james Burke, started with a single item then over the course of ...

One of the most interesting moments in Church History comes in the conflict over the use of images in Worship. It’s born of the ...

One of the features of Church History is the tendency for the theological pendulum to swing to one extreme, then back in the other ...

As we’ve seen in other episodes, theologically, the Church spent the 4th & 5th Cs figuring out exactly how to articulate what it believed ...

This episode of CS will be significantly different from our usual fare. Whereas when I give commentary on things, I usually verbally mark it ...

We’re going to go forward in time from our last episode nearly a millennium. Last time we talked about the Gnostics and the serious ...

For 2nd generation Christians—let’s say, those who came to faith after AD 70, Jesus became less a person they’d personally known, or the friend ...

We start a new series here in Season 2 of CS. This time we’ll take a look at some of the notable Heretics & ...

This episode is a bit different from our usual fare in that it’s devoted to the subject of art in Church History. It’s in ...

As I record  & post this episode, a new movie’s out called Logan. It’s appears to be the last installment for the venerable X-Men ...

This is part 6 of our series titled The First Centuries, in Season 2 of CS. In the last episode we took a look ...

The First Centuries – Part 5 // Irenæus The historical record is pretty clear that the Apostle John spent his last years in Western ...

Have you noticed that, generally-speaking, Christians like to argue? Maybe we get it from our spiritual ancestors, the Jews. Once while on a tour ...

In part 1 we took a look at some of the sociological reason for persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. Then last time ...