On anniversary of MLK Jr.'s death, NJ friends and fans recall meeting a civil rights icon
On the 57th anniversary of his death, North Jersey residents look back at personal encounters with Martin Luther King Jr.
PBS8y
The Reluctant Revolutionary
(Martin Luther) When an obscure monk named Martin Luther nailed 95 Theses - 95 stinging rebukes - attacking the mighty Catholic Church, and its head, Pope Leo X to the door of Wittenberg Cathedral ...
PBS8y
Driven to Defiance
Martin Luther was born into a world dominated by the Catholic Church, which holds spiritual dominion over all the nations of Europe. For the keenly spiritual Luther, the Church's promise of ...
500 years ago, German peasants revolted – but their faith that the Protestant Reformation stood for freedom was dashed by Martin Luther and the nobility
The peasants had economic grievances, to be sure, but they also drew inspiration from the message of freedom, or “Fryheit” in ...
BBC13y
The Scottish Reformation
Martin Luther on Protestantism (1520 ... distracted from God's glory by the glitter and rich hangings of the Catholic Church. For the men who "cleansed the altars" this was direct action against ...
The Christian Century4mon
The White church still owes “Letter from Birmingham Jail” an answer
On Good Friday 1963 Martin Luther ... nation but to the White church. Its arguments for civil disobedience are hand-stitched into a letter addressed to those who claim to be Christian. I am both a ...