Some of you may know that Jean and I have just returned from a two-week trip to Germany, where we rented a car and visited the so-called Luther sites, the towns and cities where Martin Luther lived four hundred years ago, and where the Reformation began. It was a wonderful time and we are very grateful to your generosity in making it possible. We want to show you our slides, so we have decided we are going to have a potluck supper on Wednesday, June 25. You are all invited. You may feel that making you watch our slides is a heck of a way to say thank you, but we are going to do it anyway. I promise that we will be merciful.

Martin Luther was a force in shaping the world that we live in, not only the Protestant world, our religious heritage, but also western civilization. There is probably…