STAND UP 2 CANCER
My sponsored Stand Up 2 Cancer Walk
from Cancer Research UK Shop
Anniesland Cross took us along Great
Western Road to the Botanic Gardens, and
returned via The Beatson Centre and back
to Anniesland Shop raising £172.
The morning downpour cleared up and we
managed to complete our fundraising
efforts in the late autumn sunshine.
Acknowledging the great Harvest Meal we
shared, the contributions received from congregation and friends of St
Oswald’s raised a further £198 which was sent to Stand Up 2 Cancer.
CRUK at Anniesland raised, in total, the marvellous sum of £1,767.
I would like to say a big thank you to St Oswald’s and all my friends.
Gladys Dickson.
LUTHER. A SUMMER’S TALE
2017 has been declared the Luther Year, at
least the German Parliament has decided that
it should be so.
Its official printed papers state: ‘The German
Bundestag finds that the 500 th anniversary of
the Reformation in the Year 2017 is an event
of world significance.’ It was an all-party
decision, although some on the left called it
‘an uncritical cult of an hero’ and that the
leader of the peasant’s revolt, Thomas
Muentzer, should have been equally
honoured.
New historical research suggests that it wasn’t Luther himself who nailed the
thesis paper to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, but some
servant of the University. In it, one professor of theology called for an
academic discussion concerning the sale of letters of indulgence by the
Pope. A printer with a nose for business recognised the potential of this 95
thesis paper as a bestseller and made it into a ‘media event’. It resulted in a
long quarrel with the emperor and the Roman Papacy, which culminated in
bloody wars and an un-intentional division of the Church.
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