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A Backbone Made of Magdeburg Steel

7 July 2022 By David Trounce 2 Comments

A Backbone Made of Magdeburg Steel - Sermo Humilis

When Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of a Wittenberg church in 1517, he was nailing himself to a cross. From that time on, the governing authorities of Rome wanted him dead. Gone. What stood in their way was the lesser magistrate. A small number of local … [Read more...] about A Backbone Made of Magdeburg Steel

Filed Under: Life in Christendom Tagged With: Authority, Courage, Magdeburg

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Thor's Oak

Around 723 AD, a missionary named Boniface entered Hesse in Germany. Upon finding a sacred tree named Thor’s Oak, he took an axe to it, cut it down and built a church. Many in the town, believing that the God of Boniface must be greater than Thor, left their paganism behind converted to Christianity.