1. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember Enmegahbowh, a modern Jonah, and his Anglican mission to Native Americans.
  2. Pretty Girls Make Graves. In this episode, we sit with Flannery O’Connor’s introduction to A Memoir of Mary Ann, A memoir of a little girl who lived for 12 years at the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cancer Home in Atlanta, Georgia. Written by the nuns at the home, with a substantial introduction by Flannery O'Connor. This is a deeply moving meditation on pain, suffering, loss, and why the good hides himself behind the grotesque.
  3. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the famed “Chinese Trio” and their mission on the Silk Road.
  4. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember a landmark decision for Christian freedom in the German Democratic Republic.
  5. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember a colorful Christian activist and agitator—the prohibitionist Carrie Nation.
  6. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we head to the mailbag to answer a question about the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
  7. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the Empress who inaugurated the “Triumph of Orthodoxy.”
  8. The Thinking Fellows discuss proclimation, apologetics, and epistemology. What does it mean that the Christian faith is certain?
  9. We’re in This Together. In this episode, we sit with Bo Giertz and read his open letter to the churches — A Shepherd’s Letter. As translator, Bror Erickson says of the opening section (we read on the show), “Crises and Sources of Strength”: “Christians had been systematically persecuted by the Nazis, and this systematic persecution continued in soviet countries. However, in Western Europe, church leaders like Bo Giertz saw how increasing industrialization was also assisting an increasing secularism. There were huge population shifts into the city, and people lost track of the church even as the church lost track of the people during these shifts. Some political parties were also actively hostile to the church. The trends toward secularism and atheism in the West have continued, of course, and have also become a point of consternation for believers even to this day. This age has not ceased to be evil since Paul designated it as such in Gal. 1:4. So the church continues and will continue to suffer crises, and so the essay “Crises and Sources of Strength” takes on a sort of timeless dimension that way.