1. It’s For Your Own Good. We conclude our reading and discussion of Dostoevsky’s, The Grand Inquisitor. What are we willing to sacrifice to accept the devil’s offer of miracles, mystery, and authority? Why do we surrender to temptation, and what do we expect are the consequences? What can we learn from Jesus’ rejection of the devil’s temptations, and what does that mean for Christians today?
  2. Pain and suffering; it can feel like punishment from an angry God, and we try to figure out the cause, to our own frustration.
  3. Today on the Almanac, we remember Claude Fleury and his role in both educational reform and church history.
  4. Today on the Almanac, we reflect on the life of Joy Davidman.
  5. Today on the Almanac, we talk about Erasmus, the Reformation, and Textual Criticism.
  6. In this episode, Paulson uncovers the "cold treatment" for predestination sickness.
  7. Today on the Almanac, we head to the mailbag.
  8. Happiness in Slavery. We continue to read and discuss the parable of the Grand Inquisitor, in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s, The Brothers Karamazov. In this episode, the Grand Inquisitor details why Jesus’ rejection of Satan’s temptations in the wilderness doomed humanity.
  9. Waiting on God can seem like slow motion torture sometimes.
  10. Today on the Almanac, we tell the story of Bonhoeffer’s return from America to Hitler’s Germany.