About ReformedEdge

ReformedEdge is a publication about church history — the people, events, and ideas that formed the Christian tradition. Two thousand years of martyrs, councils, reformers, and quiet faithfulness shaped the faith as we know it today, yet most of those stories never make it past the seminary classroom. We think they belong to everyone. So we tell them plainly, for ordinary readers, one story at a time.

Why the anvil?

Our emblem is an anvil and hammer. Church history is a story of truth hammered out under pressure — tested, struck, and given an edge. The anvil outlasts the hammers that strike it, and the church has outlasted every empire that tried to break her. That conviction is where the name comes from: history gives the faith its edge.

The writer

Articles here are written by Gabe Brennan, a student of church history with a conviction that the past is one of the best teachers the church has. From Jan Hus's Bohemia to the catacombs of Rome, Gabe writes to make the church's story vivid, accurate, and useful for the church today.

What to expect

Long-form articles, published as they're ready rather than on a content calendar — profiles of figures you half-remember from a footnote, the real stories behind the councils and confessions, and the ways the church's past speaks to her present. No hot takes, no clickbait. Just history, plainly told.