Here's a REAL community organizer

No kidding. I wasn't even looking for him, but I recognized the description from the stunning resumes of other COs most recently in the news.

"Through his remarkable ability to master languages, media and ideas, his insights into the importance of organization and social sructures, and his intuitive grasp of the needs and possibilities of his era, he was able to forge an alliance between thought and action which made his name a wonder of its age."

No, it wasn't Obama in late 20th century, it was John Calvin in the 16th century. "A life of John Calvin," by Alister E. McGrath, Basil Blackwell, 1990, preface. But why go for reformer when you're already the Messiah?

Luther or Calvin

I always score higher as a Calvinist than a Lutheran on these internet quizes, so I thought I'd better look into it. Grace Brethren has purchased the church building up the road about 1/2 mile--it is a grand daughter of my "home" denomination, Church of the Brethren (Anabaptist--left the progressive Brethren in the 1930s which developed from an earlier 19th century split) but I think it's basically Baptist in theology and style with some dispensationalism on the side. Is that Calvin? Maybe someone could clarify this for me.

Today I pick up:

The following items, which you requested, are now available and being held for you at the library.
Author: Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.
Title: Martin Luther's basic theological writings / edited by Timothy F. Lull ; foreword by Jaroslav Pelikan.
Call Number: 230.41 Lu c. 1
Item Class: 28 Day Circ

Author: McGrath, Alister E., 1953-
Title: A life of John Calvin : a study of the shaping of Western culture / Alister E. McGrath.
Call Number: B Calvin c. 1
Item Class: 28 Day Circ