Five centuries ago, Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation. The anniversary prompted a recent meeting of his descendants to discuss the legacy Luther left when he nailed his theses on a ...

Statue of Martin Luther in Eisleben, Germany. Thinkstock. What would it mean for mainline Protestants to understand and appropriate the message of Luther’s 95 Theses? For all the ballyhoo over the ...

500 years ago, Martin Luther posted his 95 theses and marked the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. On Oct. 31, 1517, the monk nailed his theses to the door of his Catholic Church in Wittenberg, ...

It was Halloween, October 31, 1517. A little-known monk left the monastery in Wittenberg, Germany and walked, almost unnoticed, the few blocks to a church at the end of the street. He nailed a ...

WITTENBERG, Germany — 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 ...