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With Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird, Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

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It's that time of year again when Protestant Christians the world over celebrate the Reformation,

because on October the 31st, 1517,

Martin Luther either did or perhaps did not, nail or glue the 95 Theses against indulgences to the castle door in Wittenberg,

and so triggered what is now known as the Reformation, though the 95

thesis themselves were in some sense not a particularly radical document. Luther had said

more radical things before, and was certainly to say more radical things after.

It is the date where Protestants typically celebrate the start of the Reformation, which of course

makes mid-October to mid-November the time of year when I am least likely to be

unemployed in any 12-month cycle, having spent much of my life studying the Reformation,

writing and talking about the Reformation.

Of course, the Reformation occupies a significant part in the historical discipline as something of great scholarly interest.

But for Christians, it also represents something of great pressing practical interest as well because the theological insights and the pastoral developments that were built on those theological insights

I think remain of perennial relevance to Christians throughout the ages.

What do you guys think?

Not relevant.

Yeah, it's not relevant at all.

I think anybody who spends a lot of time studying it has probably wasted their life.

No, certainly, when we were talking earlier,

so much of what drove the reformers had to do, I think, Carl, you would probably confirm this,

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