"What lies there are about relics! One claims to have a feather from the wing of the angel Gabriel, and the Bishop of Mainz has a flame from Moses’ burning bush. And how does it happen that eighteen apostles are buried in Germany when Christ had only twelve?"—Martin Luther
"The truth might fare better at a lower temperature" -- attributed to Philipp Melanchthon
“If you can show me a single instance of infant baptism in the Bible, I am defeated. Anabaptist doctrine is therefore not new, but derives from Christ.”—Balthasar Hubmaier, Anabaptist reformer
For the 2017 centenary of the Reformation, we highlight our pre-Reformation, Reformation, and counter-Reformation stories.
“By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.”—Erasmus
The church has traditionally observed this as a day to remember the most innocent of victims
Oh, then rejoice that through His Son, God is with sinners now at one" - Martin Luther
“By a carpenter mankind was made and only by a carpenter can mankind be remade” —Desiderius Erasmus
By Jennifer Woodruff Tait
“The Lord has certainly inflicted a bitter wound in the death of our infant son. But He is Himself a father and knows what is good for His children.” —John Calvin
Containing today’s events, devotional, quote and stories
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