1. Pain and suffering; it can feel like punishment from an angry God, and we try to figure out the cause, to our own frustration.
  2. Today on the Almanac, we remember Claude Fleury and his role in both educational reform and church history.
  3. Today on the Almanac, we reflect on the life of Joy Davidman.
  4. Today on the Almanac, we talk about Erasmus, the Reformation, and Textual Criticism.
  5. In this episode, Paulson uncovers the "cold treatment" for predestination sickness.
  6. Today on the Almanac, we head to the mailbag.
  7. 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.
  8. Waiting on God can seem like slow motion torture sometimes.
  9. Today on the Almanac, we tell the story of Bonhoeffer’s return from America to Hitler’s Germany.
  10. In this episode, we have Mike Cosper on from "The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill" and journalist for Christianity Today. We wanted to talk specifically on how law and gospel distinctions have an impact on the culture of a church, in regard to how we treat each other, and how we perceive our pastors.