One woman who blazed a trail of defiance in the storm of England’s Reformation, wielding Scripture like a torch against Catholic and Protestant powers alike.

The Protestant Reformation had reshaped Christianity, as its currents ran deeper than Luther’s theses or Calvin’s Institutes. But among the radicals stood the Anabaptists, who were a movement bent on stripping the church back to its New Testament bones.

While hiking up Ben Bouie this morning, my mind with my stereotypical thoughts surrounding Mother’s Day. I viewed the UK’s Mothering Sunday as a Roman Catholic, Mary-worshipping observance, intertwined with Lent, which I found unbiblical and questionable.