1. Today on Tough Texts, Scott Keith and Daniel Emery Price explore Hebrews 6:1-6, a passage that can be especially difficult to navigate.
  2. Part of the journey involves seasons of affliction, and during those times it is easy to feel separated from God, even rejected by our God
  3. Today on the Almanac, we discuss Clement of Rome and the Early Church.
  4. The miracles of Jesus.
  5. יעץ - So [Jeroboam] took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.” And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. 1 KINGS 12:28–29
  6. Today on the Almanac, we remember August Hermann Francke and his remarkable work in Halle.
  7. יובל - “On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his clan.” LEVITICUS 25:9–10
  8. We remember the year 1890 and the birth of Rosa Young. The reading is from Countee Cullen, "Simon The Cyrenian Speaks."
  9. We remember on this day Francis of Assisi, who venerated poverty and loved nature. We also remember Dionysius the Areopagite, whom we meet in Acts 17. The reading is "Remember Me, Implored the Thief" by Emily Dickinson.
  10. On this day we remember the first Ecumenical council held at Nicea in 325, as well as Mother Bernadina Matthews, founder of the Carmelite Sisters of St. Teresa. Our reading is the poem "Do not live for death" by Wendell Berry.
  11. Caleb and Scott are joined by their friend Doug Klembara to discuss to the vocation of design.