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

August 23, 2025 | By Dan van Voorhis
Weekend Edition for August 23-24, 2025

Friday, August 22, 2025

August 22, 2025 | 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.

405: Barfield - Myth is the Ghost of Concrete Meaning

August 22, 2025 | 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.

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Thursday, August 21, 2025

August 21, 2025 | By Dan van Voorhis
Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the forgotten founder of Christian Scholasticism.

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

August 20, 2025 | By Dan van Voorhis
Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the British evangelist behind the global phenomenon that is the Salvation Army.

Mysticism Through Love

August 20, 2025 | 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.

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Is Christianity a cleverly devised myth?

August 20, 2025 | By Adam Francisco, David Andersen
David and Adam tackle the claim that Christianity was developed from mythology.

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

August 19, 2025 | 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.

Monday, August 18, 2025

August 18, 2025 | By Dan van Voorhis
Today on the Christian History Almanac, we head to the mailbag to answer a question about valid or invalid sacraments.

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404: Auden - A Litany and the Horae Cononicae

August 16, 2025 | 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.

Friday, August 15, 2025

August 15, 2025 | 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.

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1517 Podcast Network
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1517 Podcasts
1517 Podcasts
2015 - 2023
Episodes
371
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Clean