Reformation Sunday 2025

As a young rambunctious grade schooler we were on occasion warned that if we continued to misbehave, we could be sent to a reform school. Even though that did not happen very often there were such places. And every once in a great while an unruly delinquent ended up there. It was rare. It sounded horrible. And it required more than simple, garden variety misbehavior. It was the result of criminal activity in an adolescent. I mention it because it was likely my first encounter with the word ‘reform’.