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  1. A Review of David (Angel Studios 2025)

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    12/23/25
    5 mins
    By Caleb Keith | Scott Keith
    Scott and Caleb review the new animated David movie. More than just another David and Goliath retelling, the film attempts to capture David’s full transformation from shepherd to king.
    A Review of David (Angel Studios 2025)

  2. 421: Chesterton - Mankind would have a much worse time if there were no such thing as Christmas or Christmas dinners

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    12/20/25
    9 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Going Cold Turkey at Christmas? In this episode, we read G.K. Chesterton’s essay, On Christmas, wherein he discusses celebrating Christmas too early, vivisection, vegetarians versus turkeys, and what to do about the poor at Christmas. It’s another curmudgeonly Christmas episode with one of our favorite British apologists and satirists.
    421: Chesterton - Mankind would have a much worse time if there were no such thing as Christmas or Christmas dinners

  3. 420: C.S. Lewis - Christmas is unfortunately everyone's business

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    12/13/25
    9 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    I’m Wasted, and I Can’t Find My Way Home. In this episode, we again invite C.S. Lewis to teach us about Christmas. We also discuss the early church fathers, worship, symbolism, mystery, Freud and Jung’s influence on modern Christians, consumerism and gift-giving, and, of course, Christmas: all this and much, much more on this episode of the podcast.
    420: C.S. Lewis - Christmas is unfortunately everyone's business

  4. 419: C.S. Lewis - All that Christianity adds to Paganism is the cure

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    12/05/25
    9 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Pagan Neart, Christian Soul. In this episode, we read C.S. Lewis’ “A Christmas Sermon for Pagans.” Why does the post-Christian person need to become pagan again to be prepared to hear the gospel? How has a mechanistic view of nature led us to kill each other? Why do we reject the good news that Jesus ended the need for guilt-offerings, sin-sacrifices, and fear about the afterlife? What happened as a consequence of moderns pushing heavenly truth out of the material world? What is the message of Christmas that offers a cure for all that ails us?
    419: C.S. Lewis - All that Christianity adds to Paganism is the cure

  5. Monday, September 29, 2025

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    09/29/25
    14 mins
    By Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we go to Washington, D.C., to consider one of the world’s most famous cathedrals.
    Monday, September 29, 2025

  6. 405: Barfield - Myth is the Ghost of Concrete Meaning

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    08/22/25
    9 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Little Plastic Castles. In this episode, we read the first Inkling, Owen Barfield, as he defends the use of old words, old stories, and old ways of expressing what’s good, beautiful, and true against modern proponents that argued for more modern “scientific” ways of judging language, esp., poetics and myth, as well as religion and culture.
    405: Barfield - Myth is the Ghost of Concrete Meaning

  7. 404: Auden - A Litany and the Horae Cononicae

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    08/16/25
    9 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Liturgy Amongst the Rubble. In this episode, we read poems by W.H. Auden about pulp fiction, ancient myths, conversion, liturgy, poetics, and how industrialization and corporatism build a new Babel inside and around the churches.
    404: Auden - A Litany and the Horae Cononicae

  8. 399: More Questions Answered - Myth and Taylor Swift

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    07/11/25
    8 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    What Do You Mean, There’s More to This? In this episode, we answer a listener's question about Taylor Swift that leads us into a conversation about symbols and meaning, religious iconography, wild truth, and seeing reality through what’s occurring in the sacraments.
    399: More Questions Answered - Myth and Taylor Swift

  9. Law and Gospel in Jane Eyre

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    07/01/25
    9 mins
    By Kelsi Klembara | Amy Mantravadi
    In this episode of Outside Ourselves: Summer Break, author, 1517 contributor, and internet theology whiz kid, Amy Mantravadi discuss theological themes in Charlotte Bronte's novel, Jane Eyre.
    Law and Gospel in Jane Eyre

  10. The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: Famous Fictional Clergy Part II

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    06/14/25
    5 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Weekend Edition for June 14-15, 2025
    The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: Famous Fictional Clergy Part II

  11. Tuesday, May 6, 2025

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    05/06/25
    13 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the unveiling of what is, perhaps, the most famous altarpiece in history.
    Tuesday, May 6, 2025

  12. Monday, May 5, 2025

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    05/05/25
    12 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we head to the mailbag to answer a question about the church and celebrity culture.
    Monday, May 5, 2025