1. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we tell the story of the Reformation and a mapmaker from Transylvania.
  2. The Hangman’s Nous. In this episode, we read an excerpt from The Maniac, by G.K. Chesterton, followed by Myth Became Fact, from C.S. Lewis’ book of essays, “God in the Dock.” The primary question we discuss, then, is whether men and women can live a healthy and sane life with mystery, without myth, and without higher truth. What has happened to modern churches that exorcised mystery from preaching, teaching, evangelism, and worship? What anchors the Body of Christ when it’s unmoored from Church history and tradition? What have been the consequences for churches that treat the Christian story as more fantasy than fact? What does Lewis mean that God is “mythopoeic”? What does it mean that Christianity is, according to Lewis, “perfect myth and perfect fact”?
  3. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we tell a story about three cages hanging from a church in Münster, Germany.
  4. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we tell the story of the Anglicans and their Book of Common Prayer.
  5. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we tell a story about maps and the Old Testament and a guy called Sebastian.
  6. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we answer a question about a Christian revival and a religious revival in America.
  7. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember two saints connected to the Egyptian desert.
  8. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember an oft-forgotten Norwegian pastor and Nazi resistor.
  9. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember “the Hammer of the Arians.”
  10. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we head to the mailbag to answer a question about radicals and Methodists.