Church History

On August 24, 1572, a royal decision to kill Huguenot leaders unleashed violence across Paris and France. I wrote this article to remember the French Reformed believers who suffered, to consider the difficult questions of obedience and lawful resistance raised by the massacre, and to recover their witness without romanticizing their age. Their story is sobering, but it also directs us beyond rulers and mobs to Jesus Christ, who preserves his church through his Word and Spirit.