1. “Religion is predicated on the idea that our time here is short and should be shorter, that our job is to bring on the end of days. This is just a veil of tears and guilt and shame. This, the only life we have—the only life we have that contains music and art and literature and solidarity and sex and love—all of this should be swept away. We can’t wait for the end times to come. That’s what they all have to believe.”
  2. Today on the Almanac, we tell the story of Pope Marcellinus, the Pope that Apostatized! Maybe. Well, probably not.
  3. Caleb and Scott read and discuss the first three articles of the Augsburg Confession and the Apology.
  4. Today on the Almanac, we remember Miguel De Molinos and his contribution to the development of “Quietism.”
  5. Today on the Almanac, we go back to the mailbag to get a follow-up question about Polygamy in the church and Martin Luther.
  6. Today on the Almanac, we remember the daring escape of the “Siberian Seven,” a group of Soviet Pentecostals in 1983.
  7. Today on the Almanac, we add another member to the Dr. Gene Scott All-Stars: Founder of the Pillar of Fire Church, Alma B. White.
  8. Today on the Almanac, we remember Ingwer Ludwig Nommensen, the German Dane in a Dutch Mission on the Island of Sumatra.
  9. Today on the Almanac, we remember a man who in the late 19th century was both a pastor and “the most famous man in America.”
  10. “We were baffled by climatic and cataclysmic events: earthquakes, tidal waves, storms, lightning. All of this was to us terrifying. Religion works as an attempt, then, to make sense of things. We are pattern-seeking mammals, after all. It’s a good thing that we are, because if we weren’t pattern-seeking mammals, our curiosity would have no outlet and we wouldn’t be capable of the great innovations that have liberated us from so many things, including religion.”
  11. Today on the Almanac, we tell the story of the Vox Pisces, a theological work found in the belly of a fish?
  12. Scott and Caleb introduce the Augsburg Confession.