This Day in History

Today television is full of spooky movies and shows about the history of Halloween.  But I'm pretty sure there wasn't a single one about something else that happened on this day.

On this day, 498 years ago Martin Luther carried a world-changing document to the doors of the Castle Church in Wittenberg where he posted it to be read by those who would come the next morning to worship on All Saints Day.  Thus began the Reformation of the church, prompting widespread social changes not the least of which was use of the printing press to publish Luther's writings including a translation of the Bible for the first time in the common language of the people.

Changes in education.  Changes in religion.  Changes in politics and government.  The world would never be the same.  And it started on this day, October 31, 1517.

2017 will be the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.  I have decided I want to go to Germany that year.  I'm going to start looking for a group with which to tag along.  The very idea of celebrating Reformation in Wittenberg on the 500th anniversary gives me goosebumps.