1. Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the father of the modern revival: Charles Finney.
  2. You know what the most amazing thing about the story of Samson is?
  3. Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we remember Basil of Caesarea, a Greek Bishop and Monk, one of the few given the title “the Great.”
  4. Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we look at the history of Methodism in America.
  5. Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we remember James Orr and his development of a “Christian Worldview” amidst a chaotic turn into the 20th century.
  6. Just My Imagination. In this episode, we read Eugene Peterson’s book, Under the Unpredictable Plant, and discuss theological imagination at length. What are the consequences when the church takes its cues from a culture with no imagination? Can Christians tell biblical stories without a theological imagination? What happens when the earthly and heavenly are divided by a lack of imagination into merely rationalized explanations?
  7. 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.
  8. Gretchen and Katie have a conversation with Rev. Bob Hiller about prosperity gospel, and how it sneaks into churches in a way that we start targeting the healthy people, the young families, and those who have something to offer the church.
  9. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the English Medieval monk whose arm ended up in Connecticut: St. Edmund of Abingdon.
  10. What a wondrous creation God has made.