1. On this episode of Preaching the Text, John Hoyum and Steve Paulson discuss Luke's account of the annunciation where the angel Gabriel appears before Mary to announce that she will conceive a child by the Holy Spirit.
  2. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we head to the mailbag to answer a question about the Incarnation.
  3. This is a special crossover episode with Kelsi Klembara from the podcast: "Outside Ourselves." Kelsi is also the online content manager for 1517 and mother to 3 kids. She holds an MA in Reformational Theology from Concordia University Irvine.
  4. John the Baptist unfailingly and unflinchingly points to Jesus, even from the womb.
  5. David and Adam continue their conversation about Islam, venturing beyond the issues raised about in the Regensburg lecture (see season 2, episode 1).
  6. In this episode of Tough Texts, Scott Keith and Daniel Emery Price focus on 1 John 2:1-6, a passage that speaks to the grace offered by Christ.
  7. Mary hears the word of God and then waits on the Word of God to be born from her womb.
  8. Nearly two decades ago, Pope Benedict XVI (formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) delivered what is often called the Regensburg lecture. Though it was meant to rekindle the relationship between faith and reason (or science and theology) in higher education, much of the world—or at least the Muslim majority world—got distracted by a brief reference he made to a fifteenth-century dialogue about Islam, its theological voluntarism, and the consequences of such a view of God.
  9. David and Adam have spent the last two and half months exploring both the philosophical and scientific evidence for God's existence and the historical evidence for the resurrection and deity of Jesus.
  10. The first Christians believed Jesus was Lord and God. This episode explores how this could be given the monotheism of Judaism.
  11. We have Old Testament scholar, Chad Bird, on to discuss with us the ways we twist the book of Proverbs into a prosperity gospel, especially in regard to our ideas of family.