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  1. Wednesday, May 1, 2024

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    05/01/24
    12 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we celebrate the show’s birthday and remember Adam Schall, Jesuit Astronomer to the Chinese Emperor.
    Wednesday, May 1, 2024

  2. Tuesday, April 30, 2024

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    04/30/24
    14 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the poet and hymn writer James Montgomery.
    Tuesday, April 30, 2024

  3. Monday, April 29, 2024

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    04/29/24
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today, on the Christian History Almanac, head to the mailbag to answer a question about languages, literacy, and the Bible.
    Monday, April 29, 2024

  4. The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: Christianity and the Golden Sparrow

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    04/27/24
    3 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Weekend Edition for April 27-28, 2024
    The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: Christianity and the Golden Sparrow

  5. 350: Aelfric and Basil - The Anglo-Saxon Hexameron

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    04/27/24
    9 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Break on Through (To The Other Side). In this episode, we discuss creation, the eating of forbidden fruit, cosmology, the meaning of things, Jesus clearing the way for us to enter back into paradise, and how the Bible ends up changing culture by translating God’s Word into the vernacular while reading The Hexameron of Basil the Great as preached by Aelfric.
    350: Aelfric and Basil - The Anglo-Saxon Hexameron

  6. Friday, April 26, 2024

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    04/26/24
    12 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we remember Alexander Duff, a Scottish Missionary to India.
    Friday, April 26, 2024

  7. Thursday, April 25, 2024

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    04/25/24
    13 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we remember a giant in the history of American Evangelicalism: Charles E. Fuller.
    Thursday, April 25, 2024

  8. Wednesday, April 24, 2024

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    04/24/24
    12 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the Christian History Almanac we tell the once popular story of the missionary adventurer Asahel Grant.
    Wednesday, April 24, 2024

  9. Tuesday, April 23, 2024

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    04/23/24
    13 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we look at the history of Methodism in America.
    Tuesday, April 23, 2024

  10. Monday, April 22, 2024

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    04/22/24
    14 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we head to the mailbag to answer a question about the metrical Psalter.
    Monday, April 22, 2024

  11. The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: the Prince of Paradox, the Life and Works of G.K. Chesterton

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    04/20/24
    5 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Weekend Edition for April 20-21, 2024
    The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: the Prince of Paradox, the Life and Works of G.K. Chesterton

  12. Friday, April 19, 2024

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    04/19/24
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we have perhaps “the greatest German algebraist of the 16th century,” a man who predicted the end of the world, and a friend of Luther: Michael Stifel.
    Friday, April 19, 2024