Sunday, August 9, 2020
The year was 1516, and we remember the dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. The reading is a stanza from “Christ is Risen” by Nicolas Martinez.
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Saturday, August 8, 2020
The year was 1909, and we remember Mary MacKillop. The reading is from Les Murray's "Poetry and Religion."
156: Pastoral Debrief on Civil Disobedience and the Christian
What’s So Civil About Disobedience? A pastoral debrief that lays the foundation for a discussion about the theological implications for civil disobedience and rebellion.
Friday, August 7, 2020
The year was 1847, and we remember George Rapp. The reading is from Walter Brueggemann, “The Prophetic Imagination.”
Thursday, August 6, 2020
The year was 1221, and we remember St. Dominic. The reading is from Aquinas' famous hymn, "Pange Lingua."
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
The year was 1912, and we remember Henri-Antoine Groues. The reading is “Dominus Illuminatio Mea” by Richard Doddridge Blackmore.
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
The year was 1708, and we remember Francis Makemie. The reading is an excerpt from "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Monday, August 3, 2020
The year was 2008, and we remember Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The reading is a poem from Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago."
Sunday, August 2, 2020
The year was 640 and Pope Severinus died. The reading is from Cynewulf's “The Ascension."
Saturday, August 1, 2020
The year was 1897 and Pope Leo XIII published his encyclical "Militantis Ecclesiae." The reading is from Philip Yancey, "The Question That Never Goes Away."
155: Augustine - Just wars are usually defined as those that avenge injuries
Fire for Effect. In this episode, we wrap up our discussion of Augustine on just war.
Friday, July 31, 2020
The year was 1861, and we remember Helen Barrett Montgomery. The reading is a stanza from Henry Lyte's "Abide With Me."
Thursday, July 30, 2020
The year was 1419 and the First Defenestration at Prague. The reading is a poem from Czeslaw Milosz, “You Whose Name.”
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
The year was 1030, and we remember St. Olaf Haraldsson. The reading is a poem, "Fierce was the Wild Billow," attributed to Anatolius.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
The year was 1979, and we remember Gudina Tumsa. The reading is from Athanasius, "On the Incarnation."
Monday, July 27, 2020
The year was 1656, and we remember Salomon Glassius. The reading is from Chad Bird, "Night Driving: Notes from a Prodigal Soul."
Sunday, July 26, 2020
The year was 1890, and we remember Francisco Penzotti. The reading is from Angelico Chavez, "Jesus at the Well."
Saturday, July 25, 2020
The year was 1900. We remember the “dean” of the house church movement in China, Wang Ming Dao. The reading is from 17th century Emperor Kangxi, “Poem of the Cross.”
Friday, July 24, 2020
The year was 1224, and we remember Christina the Astonishing. The reading is from R.S. Thomas, "When We Are Weak."
154: Augustine - Love for one's enemies and a benevolent severity
War, What Is It Good For? In this episode, Augustine’s theology of war is introduced.
Thursday, July 23, 2020
The year was 1637, and Jenny Geddes thew the stool that transformed Scotland. The reading is from Phoebe Cary, "Hymn #3."
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
The year was 1926, and we remember J.I. Packer. The reading is a word about Christian hope from Packer himself.
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
The year was 1542 and Pope Paul III issued the Papal Bull, “Licet ab Initio.” The reading is an excerpt from Soren Kierkegaard's 1851 “Discourse on Communion.”
Monday, July 20, 2020
The year was 1969, and Buzz Aldrin became the first man to take communion in space. The reading is from Robert Campbell's hymn, "At the Lambs High Feast We Sing."
Sunday, July 19, 2020
The year was 1688, and we remember Guisseppe Castiglione. The reading is the "Prayer of St Francis Xavier" by Alexander Pope.