The Line in the Cold: Conrad Grebel and the Birth of Conscience

April 7
28 mins

Episode Description

In a cold room in Zrich on January 21, 1525, a young man named Conrad Grebel baptized his friend George Blaurock --- an act so quiet and so radical that it changed the architecture of human freedom. Grebel was not supposed to be a revolutionary. He was the privileged son of a prominent family, a failed student, a reformed troublemaker who found his footing in the fire of the Reformation --- and then watched that fire become a new establishment in real time. What he defended, at the cost of everything, was a boundary: between the authority of the state and the authority of conscience. That boundary did not build itself. And it can be unbuilt. Harmonia was in that room. She has been watching the line ever since.

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