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Colchester, VT 05446
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500 years ago the face of the Christian world changed forever. Do you ever wonder what inspired the Reformers, and what Martin Luther’s “Ninety-five Theses were? What did Luther say and do; how did the Reformation change the world; and why is it’s symbolic 500th anniversary important today?
The VEC is sponsoring an ecumenical forum with John Armstrong, an expert scholar on the Reformation, commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation on Tuesday evening Jan. 23 at 7:00 p.m. at St. Michael’s College in the Pomerleau Alumni Center (1 Winooski Park (Rt. 15 and Lime Kiln Rd.), Colchester, VT. The forum will feature a presentation by Dr. Armstrong about the recent film he helped produce about the Reformation, This Changed Everything, with responses and commentary by a panel of area Reformation scholars. The forum is free, and all are welcome.
Dr. John H. Armstrong is an ordained minister of Word and Sacrament in the Reformed Church in America (RCA). He founded and became the first president of the ACT3 Network (Advancing the Christian Tradition in the Third Millennium) in 1991; see https://act3network.com. ACTS3 is currently in the process of becoming an intentional ecumenical community designed for the healing of the North American church. He is the author/editor of fourteen books, including his newest book, Costly Love: The Way to True Unity for All the Followers of Jesus (New City Press, 2017). He serves as senior adviser to the Christian History Institute and has helped to produce several documentaries on church history and renewal, including most recently This Changed Everything! in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation; see https://www.thischangedeverything.com. He was a keynote speaker at the 2017 National Workshop on Christian Unity in Minneapolis, MN in May 2017; see http://nwcu.org, and on Facebook “National Workshop on Christian Unity.” John is married to his wife Anita (1970) and has lived in suburban Chicago since 1969. He is the father of two adult married children and the grandfather of two girls and two boys.