One of the good gifts that God has given to human beings is that of memory and the facility to remember the past. Remembering our own personal past is absolutely vital to knowing who we are and having a sense of personal identity. We all know how diseases that ravage a person’s memory destroy the ability of that person to function in any meaningful way in the present.
Lessons from Luther’s Stand at Worms: 500 Years Ago Today →
We picture Martin Luther on October 31, 1517, hammering his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the Wittenberg church as the moment the Reformation launched. But arguably the more decisive event took place nearly four years later on April 18, 1521, when Luther stood at the Diet of Worms. When pressed if he would retract his writings, Luther replied: