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  1. Friday, August 1, 2025

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    08/01/25
    13 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we tell the story of a notable convert in 17th-century China.
    Friday, August 1, 2025

  2. Wednesday, December 21, 2022

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    12/21/22
    12 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the show, we remember perhaps the most interesting woman in Early Modern Europe
    Wednesday, December 21, 2022

  3. Monday, June 27, 2022

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    06/27/22
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    Today on the Almanac, we head to the mailbag to answer a question about the history of the doctrine of Hell.
    Monday, June 27, 2022

  4. Wednesday, April 6, 2022

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    04/06/22
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    Today on the Almanac, we see where the Renaissance meets the Reformation with Albrecht Dürer.
    Wednesday, April 6, 2022

  5. "The Transfiguration" (Episode 254) Featuring Pastor Bob Hiller

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    01/16/22
    1 min
    By Bob Hiller
    Pastor Hiller Teaches On Matthew 17:1-9

  6. Bonusode: Pecking on Christ

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    01/28/21
    1 min
    By Troy Neujahr | Craig Donofrio
    Craig and Troy tackle the issue that has caused so many first-year seminarians untold sleepless nights: When Jesus was tempted, could He actually have sinned?
    Bonusode: Pecking on Christ

  7. Saturday, December 26, 2020

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    12/26/20
    9 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1526. We remember protestant Rose Lok. The reading is from Christine Rosetti, "Christmas Hath Darkness."
    Saturday, December 26, 2020

  8. Hope for When Bible Reading is Burdensome

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    10/22/20
    3 mins
    By Gretchen Ronnevik
    When we approach the Bible from a hyper-individualistic viewpoint, the burden to be in it daily is on our individual shoulders, the burden to interpret and understand it is all on our individual shoulders, and we can end up sitting down to what can appear at first glance to be an enormous to-do list we cannot live up to--an activity to dread. It's the "just read it and then do it" method.
    Hope for When Bible Reading is Burdensome

  9. 153: Law and Gospel in Practical Application

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    07/16/20
    5 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Is This The Real Life... In this double-length episode, Riley and Gillespie ask what are the consequences for not grounding our preaching, teaching, prayer, and worship in concrete reality as revealed by God’s Word of law and Gospel?
    153: Law and Gospel in Practical Application

  10. 149: An Apologetic Primer on Jehovah’s Witnesses

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    06/25/20
    5 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    We Are Not Your Kind. Gillespie and Riley respond to a listener question: Are Jehovah’s Witnesses a part of the Christian Church?
    149: An Apologetic Primer on Jehovah’s Witnesses

  11. Tuesday, June 23, 2020

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    06/23/20
    9 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    Today, we celebrate St. John's Eve. The reading is "Baptism" by George Herbert.
    Tuesday, June 23, 2020

  12. Friday, June 21st, 2019

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    06/21/19
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day we remember the birthdays of Increase Mather in 1639 and Reinhold Niebuhr in 1892. Our reading is from Milton, "On Time."
    Friday, June 21st, 2019