Nearby is the Town Church of St. Mary, where Luther was married, where his children were baptized, and where he preached over 2,000 times. This is where what many consider to be the first-ever ...

The concept of the Reformation as a discrete event, with a beginning and an end, is a relatively belated development. For ...

Mainstream Hollywood has consistently avoided the dramatic story of German cleric Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation he sparked in the 16th century, but it has a long and proud history as a ...

If you're a Protestant, the anniversary of the revolution Martin Luther set in motion 500 years ago this Tuesday is a big deal. But even if you're not, it should be. The Reformation was one of the ...

Across Luther Country, from tiny Eisleben, where Luther was born in 1483 and died some 60 years later, to Erfurt, where he attended seminary, from Mansfeld, where Luther lived as a young boy, to ...

Of few men can it be said with absolute certainty that they changed the course of history. Jesus was one; so was Karl Marx. Still another was Martin Luther, friar of the Augustinian Order of Eremites, ...

A sketch of groups of peasants wandering around the countryside during the German Peasants' War. Warwick Press via Wikimedia Commons. Five hundred years ago, in the winter of 1524-1525, bands of ...

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 ...