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Thursday, October 19, 2023

10/19/23

14 mins

By Dan van Voorhis

Today on the Christian History Almanac podcast, we remember the curious life of Gerrard Winstanley.
- Christian History
Learning to Pray: Forgive Us

11/03/22

1 min

By Cindy Koch

We are all learning how to pray God’s Word together.
- Prayer
August 5 - God the Housebuilder

08/05/21

3 mins

By Chad Bird

בית - "Moreover, the Lord declares to you that the Lord will make you a house. When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever." 2 SAMUEL 7:11–13
- Hebrew
Not Just Any Other Book

06/28/21

1 min

By Caleb Keith | Steven Paulson

Dr. Paulson spends time explaining how Luther and Erasmus approach Scripture.
Saturday, March 6, 2021

03/06/21

10 mins

By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie

The year was 1866. We remember Renaissance Man and Anglican Priest William Whewell. The reading is from Ps. 19 in the Scottish Metrical Psalter.
- ARTS AND CULTURE
- Christian History
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

07/21/20

9 mins

By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie

The year was 1542 and Pope Paul III issued the Papal Bull, “Licet ab Initio.” The reading is an excerpt from Soren Kierkegaard's 1851 “Discourse on Communion.”
- ARTS AND CULTURE
- Christian History
Judges 17:1-18:10 (Episode 216)

05/15/20

1 min

By Chad Bird | Daniel Emery Price

Silver, a. cult, and a hireling priest.
- Old Testament
- Scripture
Luke 12:49-13:17 (Episode 152)

03/04/20

1 min

By Daniel Emery Price | Erick Sorensen

Jesus says He is distressed over a certain baptism and division will follow Him. People want to know about degrees of sinners, but Jesus blows apart all ideas of Karma. And a woman is healed on the Sabbath, but the rulers of the synagogue find it impossible to rejoice.
- New Testament
- Scripture
105: Hermann Sasse against National Socialism, pt. 2

01/17/20

1 min

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Click on the button with the picture of the Nazi on it. Gillespie and Riley read and discuss an excerpt from Hermann Sasse’s 1932 article against National Socialism. What happens when the message of the church and state are indistinguishable?
99: Martin Luther, “Reviews of Erasmus’ Preface” from “The Bondage of The Will”

12/18/19

3 mins

By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley

Sometimes, the end is just the beginning. Gillespie and Riley conclude their reading of Martin Luther’s treatise on The Bondage of The Will. This episode, they discuss the relation of emotions to God’s Word and why Christians aren’t skeptics.
Season 2, Chapter 1, Episode 4 with Nickolas Butler

10/17/19

1 min

By Dan van Voorhis | Debi Winrich

On this special bonus episode, Debi (and producer Dan) talk with Nickolas Butler. Nik is the best selling author whose recent book "Little Faith" deals with faith, church, family, and loss. Both Debi and Dan read the book and wondered, "What kind of relationship Butler has with the church?" And so Debi contacted him, and he was willing to come on the show and talk about the book and his complicated faith.
- Doubt
- Christian Apologetics
S.1, E.6: Ascended into Heaven, and Sits at the Right Hand of the Father Almighty

10/18/18

1 min

By Dan van Voorhis | Debi Winrich | Donavon Riley

On this show we discuss a clause in the creed that is sometimes overlooked. Being seated at the Right Hand of the Father might seem like an abstract theological idea, but Rev Donovan Riley centers the doctrine in the history of the church and the Gospel.