Today we celebrate one of the most monumental days in history –when Martin Luther, a German monk, posted 95 theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg, creating a permanent schism within the Catholic church, one that would result in a new strain of Christianity –Protestantism.

The root of Protestantism is “protest.” We are a church that built its identity upon protesting an existing church structure that many felt was corrupt. As new independent churches developed, new theology developed too –a theology that would put emphasis on the importance of faith in Jesus, personal relationship with God, and a revolution in new “book technology” that made reading the stories of scripture “en vogue” and exciting.

Along with this “personalization” of one’s faith, one gained quite a bit of indivi…