TOPIC INDEXChristian History (9)

  1. Thursday, June 29, 2023

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    06/29/23
    13 mins
    By Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Today on the Almanac, we consider the Roman Catholic response to Mussolini in the papal encyclical published by Pope Pius XI on this day in 1931.

  2. Wednesday, June 28, 2023

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    06/28/23
    13 mins
    By Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Today on the Almanac, we remember the election of Charles V to the title of Holy Roman Emperor in 1519.

  3. Tuesday, June 27, 2023

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    06/27/23
    13 mins
    By Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the Stratford Martyrs who died on this day in 1556.

  4. Monday, June 26, 2023

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    06/26/23
    12 mins
    By Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Today on the Almanac, we look to the early church and tell the story of Julian the Apostate, Rome’s last pagan emperor, who died on this day in 363.

  5. Church Fathers: Gregory the Great, Pastoral Pope

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    07/29/22
    14 mins
    By Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Gregory is a bridge between the patristic age and the medieval.

  6. Persecution and Unity: The Edict of Fontainebleau

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    10/22/21
    15 mins
    By Sam Leanza Ortiz
    Throughout the eighteenth century and into the nineteenth, Anglicans, Presbyterians, and Lutherans would work together on the mission field, at home, and abroad.

  7. Bernard of Clairvaux: Theologian of Love

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    08/20/21
    14 mins
    By Sam Leanza Ortiz
    This spiritual giant of the Middle Ages is worth considering on this anniversary of his death.

  8. Cotton Mather's Quest for Assurance

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    02/12/21
    16 mins
    By Sam Leanza Ortiz
    The paradoxical Puritan doctrines of an inability to convert oneself and the command to work out one’s salvation with fear and trembling placed would-be converts like Mather in quite a bind.

  9. Michaelmas, Griffith Jones and the Protective Power of the Word

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    09/29/20
    14 mins
    By Sam Leanza Ortiz
    The theme of guardianship permeates Christian observances of Michaelmas, unifying this wide variety of celebrations.