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  1. Thursday, January 8, 2025

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    01/08/26
    12 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the most important Catholic in American history?!
    Thursday, January 8, 2025

  2. Wednesday, January 7, 2025

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    01/07/26
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember a famous letter that helped settle the Canon of the New Testament for the church.
    Wednesday, January 7, 2025

  3. Tuesday, January 6, 2025

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    01/06/26
    12 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we tell the story of, perhaps, the most popular hymn for Epiphany.
    Tuesday, January 6, 2025

  4. Monday, January 5, 2026

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    01/05/26
    12 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we head to the mailbag to answer a question about Eastern Orthodoxy and the Bible.
    Monday, January 5, 2026

  5. The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: Reprise- About Time!

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    01/03/26
    5 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Weekend Edition for January 3-4, 2025
    The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: Reprise- About Time!

  6. 422: Post-Christmas and Post-New Year Debrief

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    01/03/26
    9 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? In this episode, we gather for a post-Christmas, post-New Year pastoral debrief. We talk about symbols and meaning, Christmas and holidays, signs and seasons, and how modern churches quietly cleared the path for culture to push Christ out of Christmas without much resistance. We explore the strange and largely arbitrary ways the world measures time, along with the old Adam’s never-ending pyramid project. That is, his need to build meaning upward by effort, progress, and control rather than receive it as a gift. From there, we return to symbol and meaning. We ask why ancient liturgy’s nostalgia or ornamentation, but the distilled shape of reality itself, why the Lord’s Supper isn’t a side practice, but the beating heart of the Church, of worship, and of the Christian life. And why stories’ decorations for faith, but the way truth takes on flesh and finds us where we actually live. This is a conversation about time, worship, memory, and why the Church invents meaning but receives it again and again at the table.
    422: Post-Christmas and Post-New Year Debrief

  7. Friday, January 2, 2025

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    01/02/26
    12 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the medieval Bessarion and his critical position between East and West.
    Friday, January 2, 2025

  8. Wednesday, December 31, 2025

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    12/31/25
    12 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we look at the events surrounding a lesser-known man of the season: Silvesterclaus.
    Wednesday, December 31, 2025

  9. Tuesday, December 30, 2025

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    12/30/25
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the remarkable Josephine Butler.
    Tuesday, December 30, 2025

  10. Monday, December 29, 2025

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    12/29/25
    14 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we answer a question about the history of the ominous “rapture.”
    Monday, December 29, 2025

  11. The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: Reprise! Mark Heard, Poet and Prophet

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    12/27/25
    5 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Weekend Edition for December 27-28. 2025
    The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: Reprise! Mark Heard, Poet and Prophet

  12. Friday, December 26, 2025

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    12/26/25
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we look at a curious hymn/carol made famous by the date.
    Friday, December 26, 2025