Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet Hermeneutics a "sharply stylish" (Boston Globe)

a "sharply stylish" (Boston Globe) novel of a young woman in post-Depression era New York who suddenly finds herself thrust into high societyÑnow with over one million readers worldwide

Surveying the development of preaching over the span of a thousand years

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And you and me in our Sunday best in the front row at church

After unpacking why God sometimes feels so far away

Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet Hermeneutics a "sharply stylish" (Boston Globe)From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the complicated founding father of the Protestant Reformation, whose intellectual assault on Catholicism transformed Christianity and changed the course of world history. "Magnificent."The Wall Street Journal "Penetrating."The New York Times Book Review "Smart, accessible, authoritative."Hilary Mantel On October 31, 1517, so the story goes, a shy monk named