Welcome to a new year, and to a new season of seeking after God. During the first twenty-one days of this year, we’re inviting you to join us in an all-church quest to hear from God through prayer and fasting. We don’t always like to hear it, but self-denial is a basic expectation for followers…

On October 31, 1517, an obscure Augustinian monk and theology professor posted a notice on the door of the church in Wittenberg, Germany, calling for a formal, public debate on a minor point of church doctrine and practice: whether it was proper for the church to give papal indulgences promising release from purgatory in return…