In continental Europe Luther may have started the Reformation, and Calvin sustained it, but the English, relatively isolated on their island, always held continental Europe at a convenient arm’s length. Consequently when the reformation came across the channel, it followed that England needed its own reformer. Thomas Cranmer, born in […]
Author: Jack Waters
The Clay Podcast: Episode 7
Post-Reformation: The State, the Government, and the Family
“Unless I am convicted by scripture and plain reason–I do not accept the authority of popes and councils for they have contradicted each other–my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. […]
The Teacher of the Reformation: Philip Melanchthon
“If it please Christ, Melanchthon will make many Martins and a most powerful enemy of scholastic theology; for he knows their folly and the Rock of Christ as well. As a man of might, he will prove his ability.” It was in these words that Martin Luther all but named […]
The Greatest Story Ever Told
PROLOGUE/INTRODUCTION: I honestly have no clue why we did this, I think the other Senior Eds were bored, so read at your own risk. We split up our staff into three groups and we had to write a story, so we wrote an epic about Todd, the bipolar fruit and […]