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  1. Sunday, October 11, 2020

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    10/11/20
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1962. The Second Vatican Council was convened. The reading is from Karl Barth, an excerpt from a sermon on Ephesians 2.
    Sunday, October 11, 2020

  2. Saturday, October 10, 2020

    book
    10/10/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1674. We remember the poet Reverend Thomas Traherne. The reading is the Anglican collect for Traherne.
    Saturday, October 10, 2020

  3. The pendulum swings . . .

    book
    10/09/20
    1 min
    By Troy Neujahr | Craig Donofrio
    Don't glue boards together and don't drink the Kool-Aid. Craig and Troy describe why both of those make for bad Christological heresies. We trust in the true Christ who is fully God and fully man, given for us.
    The pendulum swings . . .

  4. Friday, October 9, 2020

    book
    10/09/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1201. We remember Robert of Sorbonne. The reading is a paraphrase of Francis of Assisi from "All Creatures of Our God and King."
    Friday, October 9, 2020

  5. Thursday, October 8, 2020

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    10/08/20
    9 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1927. We remember missionary and martyr Phillip James, or “Jim” Elliot. The reading is an excerpt from chapter 11 of the Epistle to the Hebrews.
    Thursday, October 8, 2020

  6. Wednesday, October 7, 2020

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    10/07/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1796. We remember the pastor and philosopher Thomas Reid. The reading is an excerpt from Eugene Peterson's "A Long Obedience in the Same Direction."
    Wednesday, October 7, 2020

  7. Tuesday, October 6, 2020

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    10/06/20
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1919. We remember Baron Paul Nicolay, the Lutheran evangelist in Russia. Our reading is from Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, titled "Confession."
    Tuesday, October 6, 2020

  8. Monday, October 5, 2020

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    10/05/20
    9 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1695. We remember the Reverend John Glas. The reading is "Sing Hosanna" by Glas.
    Monday, October 5, 2020

  9. Sunday, October 4, 2020

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    10/04/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1965, and Pope Paul VI became the first Pope to travel to the Western Hemisphere. The reading is from Karol Jozef Wojtyla, his “Meditations on the Book of Genesis: at the Threshold of the Sistine Chapel."
    Sunday, October 4, 2020

  10. Saturday, October 3, 2020

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    10/03/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1943. We remember Danish Lutheran pastor Kjeldgaard Jensen. The reading is from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, his "Meditations on the Cross."
    Saturday, October 3, 2020

  11. Bad Jesus Words, part 2

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    10/02/20
    1 min
    By Troy Neujahr | Craig Donofrio
    God the Father, God the Space Ghost, and God the Holy Ghost? That doesn't seem right. How about, God the Father, God the Created Son, and . . . no, that's not right either. Craig and Troy look at some more Christoogical heresies that try to understand Jesus, but miss the mark.
    Bad Jesus Words, part 2

  12. Friday, October 2, 2020

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    10/02/20
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1800. We remember Nat Turner. The reading is from the Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians chapter three, verse twenty-five.
    Friday, October 2, 2020