1. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we head to the mailbag to answer a question about the persecution of Christians, often by other Christians (!)
  2. I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm In this episode, we discuss how pre-modern church history, the Industrial Revolution, therapeutics, language, corporate culture, and the flight of heretics from Europe in the 17th-18th century affected contemporary Western churches.
  3. Lutherans started the Protestant Reformation. However, they shy away from the term today.
  4. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the Huguenots and their disastrous American colonies.
  5. Kick Out the Jams. In this episode, we focus on the raw, real work of life in the parish—the ordinary burdens, the hidden insecurities, and the quiet faith that holds it all together. We explore the distinction between philosophy and theology and why attempts to fuse them often leave both diminished. There’s talk of reformation—its drama, its necessity, and its cost. We reflect on the pervasive victim-perpetrator dynamic that shapes so much of modern life and how the gospel when rightly preached, breaks that cycle. At the heart of it all is this: the power of Christ’s mercy to open what we’ve shut tight, to drive out the bitterness we’ve made into habit, and to speak a word stronger than shame.
  6. First It Giveth. In this episode, we discuss Jonah’s vocation, gospel imagination, dogmatic materialism, spell casting, the contemporary effects of the Industrial Revolution, and God’s preference for wasted places while reading Eugene Peterson's Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness.
  7. Erasmus accused Luther of being outside of the church and having a novel understanding of Scripture.
  8. In what way is the Church a remnant? Luther uses God's preservation of a remnant of faithful teachers and preachers throughout scripture and the Church against Erasmus and his argument that Luther stands alone.
  9. Michael "The Golden-Mourthed Orator" Baumgarn joins Craig and Troy for a study of 1 John chapter 3.
  10. In this episode of the Thinking Fellows podcast, the Fellows answer, "Did Martin Luther invent a new religion?"
  11. Luther explains that the church embraced free will not because of Scripture but just as the Trojans embraced the Greek's wooden horse.