This beautiful picture is of the Limmat River as it runs through Zurich, Switzerland. It was also the site of the first Anabaptist to martyred named Felix Manz. Manz and his fellow Anabaptists disagreed with the Protestant Giant Huldrych Zwingli on infant baptism because it was not scriptural. But Zwingli’s Zurich City Council outlawed “re-baptizing” adults and Manz refused to …

Have you heard of the Confessing Church? As the Nazis began to take more and more power in Germany during the 1930’s one of Hitler’s goals was to silence the church. He knew as the country began to see what evil lurked in his heart he didn’t need the church’s morals to get in his way. Because the pastors were …

Each country in Europe had to figure out how they were going to deal with the Protestant Reformation. In Italy and Spain, it was really easy: We ain’t budging. But in countries like Denmark, it took war. The Danish King Christian III not only won a battle against Catholic bishops but preached in the pulpits and one of his key …

In addition to all of the work John Calvin did in the area of theology, he also ran an entire city-state-republic in Geneva, Switzerland. On January 2, 1542, his Ecclesiastical Ordinances were ratified as church law and thus the law of the land. It spelled out such things as how children would be educated when sermons were to be preached …

As church liberalism began to grow at Princeton University in the 1920s the Presbyterian general assembly and the faculty saw a huge split over ideas such as the historical reliability of the Bible. Founded on the principles of a conservative Presbyterianism, a New Testament professor named Gresham Machen unsuccessfully argued that Princeton must remain true to its founding but his …