Spirituality For Ordinary People

Happy Reformation Day! 500 years ago today (this episode is coming out on October 31st, 2017), Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Church in Wittenberg and started the Protestant Reformation.  I thought it would be a ton of fun to talk to a "Reformation expert," and I did. What a great conversation!!!Episode 31 of the podcast features an interview with Bruce Gordon. Bruce is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School and is an expert on late-medieval and early modern periods, with a particular interest in the Reformation and its reception.Some of What We Talk About:The meaning and importance of pietyThe centrality of prayer for the reformersPraying the hours of the day was common for the reformers, patterned on the monastic lifeThe doing of charitable works was part of spiritual practice for the reformersWhat changed in terms of spirituality with the onset of the ReformationHow a sense of the mystical, sacredness, and wonder may have been lost with the onset of Protestantism