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Sam Leanza Ortiz
Sam Leanza Ortiz

  1. The English New Testament at 500: William Tyndale’s Enduring Legacy

    book
    07/29/25
    21 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    For English speakers, no Reformer comes close to Tyndale in terms of measurable impact.

  2. August Hermann Francke: A Practical Pietist

    book
    06/09/25
    11 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Though several generations removed from Luther’s generation, Francke came of age right on time for a new wave of spirituality to collide with the Reformation in the movement known as Pietism.

  3. The Weathervane of the Eastern Church

    book
    05/12/25
    14 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    On its journey from Byzantium to Constantinople to Istanbul, this special place helps us understand the broader arc of Christian history, which goes on until Christ's return.

  4. A Look at Epiphany Traditions: Sacred and Secular

    book
    01/06/25
    12 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Epiphany continues the work done at Christmas, bringing light and life to a dying world desperate for hope.

  5. A Church Divided: The East-West Schism of 1054

    book
    07/16/24
    18 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Surely a division now called the "Great Schism" should command our attention, but it is vital that we do not impute similar significance to all modern disagreements in the church.

  6. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Power: How Charles V’s Imperial Burnout Aided the Reformation

    book
    09/21/23
    15 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Charles V, for all his power, his lands, and his riches, was ultimately unable to hinder the spread of the precious Gospel.

  7. Church Fathers: Gregory the Great, Pastoral Pope

    book
    07/29/22
    14 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Gregory is a bridge between the patristic age and the medieval.

  8. Persecution and Unity: The Edict of Fontainebleau

    book
    10/22/21
    15 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Throughout the eighteenth century and into the nineteenth, Anglicans, Presbyterians, and Lutherans would work together on the mission field, at home, and abroad.

  9. Bernard of Clairvaux: Theologian of Love

    book
    08/20/21
    14 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    This spiritual giant of the Middle Ages is worth considering on this anniversary of his death.

  10. Cotton Mather's Quest for Assurance

    book
    02/12/21
    16 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    The paradoxical Puritan doctrines of an inability to convert oneself and the command to work out one’s salvation with fear and trembling placed would-be converts like Mather in quite a bind.

  11. Surviving the Dark Night: St John of the Cross

    book
    12/14/20
    12 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    St John of the Cross' feast day on December 14 commemorates the day of his death in 1591, at the height of the Catholic renewal movement that followed the Reformation.

  12. Michaelmas, Griffith Jones and the Protective Power of the Word

    book
    09/29/20
    14 mins
    Sam Leanza Ortiz
    The theme of guardianship permeates Christian observances of Michaelmas, unifying this wide variety of celebrations.
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