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A Faith That Matters Between Sundays
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Lectionary Tales for the Pulpit
Series VI, Cycle C
On October 31, 1571, an Augustinian monk by the name of Martin Luther marched up to the castle church door in Wittenberg, Germany, where he was on the university faculty, and posted 95 theses or propositions concerning church policy and practice he proposed for debate. Why there and then? Well, the church door was the community bulletin board -- notices and advertisements were regularly placed there, just as they are on the bulletin board today at the grocery store.