In the dead of winter, 1525, Hans Denck walked out of Nuremberg with nothing but the clothes on his back, banished for believing that genuine faith cannot be forced. At twenty-four, he chose exile over recanting his conviction that love matters more than doctrine, that coercion creates compliance but not transformation. This episode explores how his quiet insistence on the dignity of conscience created conceptual space for religious liberty, why freedom and truth are partners rather than enemies, and how seeds planted in winter can still grow centuries later.

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