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  1. The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: “Why Do We Do That”? A Liturgical Mailbag

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    08/23/25
    6 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Weekend Edition for August 23-24, 2025
    The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: “Why Do We Do That”? A Liturgical Mailbag

  2. Friday, August 22, 2025

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    08/22/25
    12 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we tell the story of a peculiar Englishman with connections to Isaac Newton and the Church: William Whiston.
    Friday, August 22, 2025

  3. 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

  4. Thursday, August 21, 2025

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    08/21/25
    12 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the forgotten founder of Christian Scholasticism.
    Thursday, August 21, 2025

  5. Wednesday, August 20, 2025

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    08/20/25
    12 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the British evangelist behind the global phenomenon that is the Salvation Army.
    Wednesday, August 20, 2025

  6. Mysticism Through Love

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    08/20/25
    5 mins
    By Steven Paulson | Caleb Keith
    In this episode of the Outlaw God podcast, Steven Paulson and Caleb Keith take a look into Eastern and Western influences on mysticism.
    Mysticism Through Love

  7. Is Christianity a cleverly devised myth?

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    08/20/25
    3 mins
    By Adam Francisco | David Andersen
    David and Adam tackle the claim that Christianity was developed from mythology.
    Is Christianity a cleverly devised myth?

  8. Tuesday, August 19, 2025

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    08/19/25
    13 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember an early Modern English martyr and his connection to the semi-mythical White Horse Inn.
    Tuesday, August 19, 2025

  9. Monday, August 18, 2025

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    08/18/25
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we head to the mailbag to answer a question about valid or invalid sacraments.
    Monday, August 18, 2025

  10. 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

  11. The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: A Brief History of Bad Ideas (and What We Can Learn From Them) Part 2

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    08/16/25
    5 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Weekend Edition for August 16-17, 2025
    The CHA Weekend Edition Presents: A Brief History of Bad Ideas (and What We Can Learn From Them) Part 2

  12. Friday, August 15, 2025

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    08/15/25
    13 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we look at the global events celebrating mothers in general and one mother in particular.
    Friday, August 15, 2025