The difficulty of figuring out Martin Luther

“I have no idea what to do with Martin Luther.”

That was my first thought when Stephen McCaskell pitched me on the idea of writing a documentary about Martin Luther. Now, don’t get me wrong: Luther fascinates me. But he frustrates me, too.

The Two Sides of Martin Luther

Luther was hardly mild-tempered. Nor was he moderate in his positions. He was, for lack of a better term, an extremist. As a monk, he was fully investing in the monastic life. But that life failed to provide him the peac...