John Wycliffe had a vision of a Bible in the common English tongue, but dogmatists anchored to the past killed him for it.

John Huss dreamed a dream of a responsible Christian life guided by the scriptures. Traditionalists burned him at the stake.

Martin Luther was awakened to a new reality of God's grace -- an awakening not shared by contemporaries profiting from the status quo. Consequently, he was hunted for years for revealing an exciting and preferable future.

A kingdom was coming and the powers of the past could not prevail against it.