1. On this episode, Dr. Paulson addresses the critique that Luther unleashed a slide into meaninglessness on society.
  2. Scott, Caleb, and John discuss Luther’s extended commentary on the seventh and eight commandments.
  3. The year was 1962. Today we remember Karl Barth and his featured cover story in the popular TIME Magazine. The reading is from Barth.
  4. טמא - This is the law about beast and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms on the ground, to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten. LEVITICUS 11:46–47
  5. Need a break from philanthropic looting and virtue signaling? Sit down in your nice new Pottery Barn fluffy sofa, grab your oat milk latte from the ‘bucks and join a real revolution: Ringside.
  6. מלאים - [Moses said to Aaron and his son,] "And you shall not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for it will take seven days to ordain you." LEVITICUS 8:33
  7. The year was 1529. Today we remember the birth of “Protestantism” and its development over the centuries. The reading is from the Protestant Richard Baxter.
  8. חטאת - "If the whole congregation of Israel sins unintentionally and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly... when the sin which they have committed becomes known, the assembly shall offer a bull from the herd for a sin offering and bring it in front of the tent of meeting... And the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven." LEVITICUS 4:13–14, 20
  9. The year was 1521. Today we remember the famous Reformation soliloquy of Martin Luther. The reading is from Luther’s most famous hymn. #OTD #1517 #christianhistory
  10. שׁלמים - “If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers an animal from the herd, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord. And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and Aaron's sons the priests shall throw the blood against the sides of the altar." LEVITICUS 3:1–2
  11. The year was 1843. Today we remember the Moravian Jamaican missionary in Ghana. The reading is from Alfred Lord Tennyson's "In Memoriam."