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LETTERS FROM KATIE LUTHER: A NOVEL Written by Shirley Casemier Coming April 2020! This book is a fictionalized biography for ages ten and up about Katherine Luther, the wife of Martin Luther, told through Katie’s letters and the memories of her best friend, Ave (pronounced "Ah-vay"). The Lord ga
“As a teacher of junior high students for many years and an ardent reader, I was delighted to read this well-written and informative novel. In an age where technology is often chosen over the written word and good books are difficult to find on the public library shelf, I highly recommend this hist
Click to read sample Ave and her best friend Katie lived for many years as nuns in a convent in Nimbschen. But one day the two women and several other nuns decided they must flee the convent for the city of Wittenberg so that they could worship the Lord in a way pleasing to him. After their respec
Letters from Katie Luther: A Novel, by Shirley Casemier. Jenison, MI: Reformed Free Publishing Association, 2020. $14.95. 208 pp. (paper). [Reviewed by Prof. Ronald Cammenga.] Letters from Katie Luther is a delightful book. It is a book written for young people by an author, who although in her eig
November 2017 23 languages and spread throughout Europe. Two years later came the Reformer’s famous debate with John Eck in Leipzig (1519), dealing with papal authority, purgatory and indulgences. Katie had spent all her life so far in the region around Leipzig. She must have heard something of thi
The result was that almost always Katie had others besides her own family at her dinner table. Those present would discuss many different subjects and Luther would comment on them. Some present at his table took down his words and preserved them. They are collected in a volume entitled Table Talk. T
Coming April 2020! “This story impressed upon me the importance of godly friendships, especially among Christian women. It also encouraged me in my work. Sometimes God calls his children to serve him in the study, in the pulpit, and in the courtroom, as he did Martin Luther. Sometimes he calls his
Are you looking for a book to teach your kids about the Reformation? Letters from Katie Luther tells the story of the wife of the most famous reformer of all time. Katie’s story is also an important lesson for all of God’s children: trust in the Lord in times of joy and in times of struggle; he str
With that position, I and the denomination that I serve cannot agree. Nothing, nothing but death dissolves the marriage bond. Despite that exception, Luther did take the position that marriage was for life. and that the vows that husband and wife spoke, they spoke not just to each other, but be