As today is Reformation Day (95 theses nailed to the door of Wittenberg church etc), a good day to recommend a fascinating set of @GreshamCollege lectures on the English Reformation by Alex Ryrie. 
Link here to the one on the “Tudor Reformation” (how the Tudor State used the rupture to grab and centralise power*). gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-e…
But also recommend (particularly) the ones on the Unwanted Reformation (how spectacularly unpopular it was), the Catholic Reformation (an intriguing road not taken), and the Anglican Reformation (not till 1660 at the earliest).
*You can work out any analogy with current events.
Anyone interested in the history of ideas or in the history of the English state - well worth a listen.
(It’s also interesting how little influence Luther himself had on the course of the 🏴 Reformation. Not even “moderate” reformers ever seem to have cited him as an authority. And even his great hymns (Ein Feste Burg is one of the most rousing I know) have ever found a place.)
(Try this setting by Bach if you want a rousing start to your Sunday.)
https://twitter.com/baerenreiter/status/1454734382653186049
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