1. In episode THREE HUNDRED AND SIX, Mike and Wade discuss the woman who anointed Jesus in Bethany, prompting some to complain that she could have sold her perfume and given it to the poor.
  2. When Peter Sounds Likes the Devil.
  3. On this episode of Preaching the Text, John Hoyum and Steve Paulson discuss the admiration for the temple expressed by the disciples to Jesus – as well as his response.
  4. Today on the Christian History Almanac podcast, we remember a curious saint and his (possible) book that almost made the New Testament.
  5. In episode TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THREE, Mike, Jason, and Wade discuss Michael’s new book (well, one of them), The Baptismal Life, recently released by Northwestern Publishing House. We hope you enjoy the episode!
  6. Today on the Almanac, we tell the story of Edith Cavell, nurse and martyr.
  7. גאל הדם - “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there. The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment." NUMBERS 35:10–12
  8. The year was 1972. We remember Belfast’s Bloody Sunday. The last word for today comes from Henry Vaughn, his poem, “Peace.”
  9. The year was 1969, and Buzz Aldrin became the first man to take communion in space. The reading is from Robert Campbell's hymn, "At the Lambs High Feast We Sing."
  10. Abraham dies but not before getting married again. Jacob and Esau coming together for the funeral and Rebecca finally getting pregnant but there is a war inside her womb.