Witness
The men on our shirts were real, and most of them paid for what they preached. These are their stories, told from the record, with the pictures their own centuries made of them.
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Before Luther: the forerunners of the Reformation
How Wycliffe's ideas reached Prague, how the law learned to burn, and what three deaths set in motion.
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Christ Is King
From a Roman proconsul's court to a Scottish banner to an Amsterdam lecture hall: the same three words, sourced across nineteen centuries.
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An appeal to heaven
A philosopher's phrase, a king's arrow cut into a tree, and the flag six schooners flew before there was a Continental Navy.
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The city that printed a Bible for exiles
A lawyer from Noyon, a city on a lake, and the Bible its exiles built there.
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Hugh Latimer: the candle that would not go out
A bishop, a burning, and the sentence John Foxe wrote down before the smoke had cleared.
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Nicaea wasn't a safe space
An empire's bishops, a priest named Arius, and the words the church has confessed for seventeen hundred years.
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Salvation is not for sale
A chest, a coin, and the promise a friar made about what the coin could buy.
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The Lord hath promised nothing to idle bellies: what James Pilkington meant
Half a sentence from an unfinished book, a carpenter's axe, and a bishop who turned on the landlords of his own party.
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Ink against fire: how the press that printed indulgences carried Luther
The oldest dated printing in Europe is a blank pardon. How the same machine carried Luther, and why Rome's fires stopped working.
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Jan Hus: the goose of Bohemia
A priest who preached in Czech to three thousand at a time, a broken safe conduct, and an eyewitness at the stake.
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Jerome of Prague: what a papal secretary saw
A layman who argued in five universities, a year in chains, a recantation, and the day he took it back.
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John Badby: the tailor in the barrel
A tailor from Evesham, a court of bishops and lords, and a prince offering him his life with the fire lit.