1499 HT: Dan Graves Katherine von Bora viewed herself as a prisoner in the cloister of Marienthron. Luther’s Reformation preaching had found its way behind the convent walls and she wanted out. It wasn’t as if she had chosen this secluded life for herself. Far from it. Her dad had brought her here when she…
1560 HT: Dan Graves Poland’s unique path to Protestantism was shaped by the influence of Calvinist reformer John Laski, who defied his powerful uncle’s orders to recant his “heretical” beliefs and instead brought Calvinistic reforms to Poland, translating the Bible into the native tongue. Despite Laski’s efforts, Protestantism failed to dominate Poland due to internal…
1560 HT: Christian History Institute After reformers overthrew Roman Catholicism in Scotland, they needed a new church organization to replace it. Parliament commissioned six reformers to draw up a book of discipline, which they did. A few nobles refused to accept it, but a good number did, signing it on January 27, 1560 at the Tolbooth in…
HT: Dan Graves 1962 STANLEY ALBERT DALE was a runt. Boys at his school near Brisbane, Australia, bullied him. After one particularly bad episode, he went home crying. His abusive, alcoholic father taunted him as a weakling. “Then teach me how to be strong,” pleaded Dale, but his father told him to find out for…
