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February Issue |
Hi from Rick: My Luther TV Special…and Getting Fired Up |
Dear Traveler, Five hundred years ago, in 1517, Martin Luther tackled a religious debate in a society where the "separation of Church and State" had never even occurred to anyone. Sins were crimes and crimes were sins…obviously. "News" was so controlled and so stale that it was embroidered into wall hangings that decorated the medieval halls of power. Luther's crusade — a wedge issue of the day — was translating the Bible from Latin into a local language so that regular people could read it directly. Until then, any professor or monk who challenged the Church status quo by employing his translator's quill risked being burned at the stake… Read more |
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