1. Today on the Christian History Almanac podcast, we remember the first Ambassador from the Pope to meet the Great Khan.
  2. In episode TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY, Mike, Jason, Wade discuss how human beings see themselves (for example, as consumers, producers, students, etc.) and how such paradigms are helpful or problematic.
  3. Today on the Almanac, we tell the story of a mysterious 14th-century Beguine with a silver chair.
  4. Today on the Almanac, we head to the mailbag to answer a question about Creeds.
  5. עלה - "And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither, nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.” EZEKIEL 47:12
  6. רעשׁ - The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones... So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. EZEKIEL 37:1, 7
  7. Today on the Almanac, we go to the mailbag to answer a question about contemporary and ancient problems in the church.
  8. We are thrilled to have Heidi Goehmann, author, deaconess, and mental health provider talk about the intersection of theology and mental health.
  9. The year was 1516. We remember Queen Mary I, daughter of Henry and sister of Elizabeth. The reading for today comes from Christina Rossetti, "Lent."
  10. מזבח - Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. (GENESIS 8:20)
  11. The Thinking Fellows cover the major reformational events between 1535 and 1539.