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  1. Sunday, March 15, 2020

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    03/15/20
    2 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day, we remember Billy Graham's 1st integrated Rally in 1953, and John Davenport, d. 1670. The reading is a quote from "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis.
    Sunday, March 15, 2020

  2. 121: Friedrich Nietzsche, Christianity is Called the Religion of Pity

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    03/14/20
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    All right, let's put a pin in this, I gotta help your pathetic faith. Gillespie and Riley continue to read and discuss Friedrich Nietzsche's "Antichrist." How does the Christian church promote weak piety and a denial of life? How does Christianity as a religion of pity weaken believers and society? What happens to Christianity when it mixes philosophy and theology together?
    121: Friedrich Nietzsche, Christianity is Called the Religion of Pity

  3. Saturday, March 14, 2020

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    03/14/20
    2 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day, we remember Eysteinn Asgrimsson, d. 1361, and the New English Bible NT publishing in 1961. The reading is "Neither Shadow of Turning" by Jack Clemo.
    Saturday, March 14, 2020

  4. Friday, March 13, 2020

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    03/13/20
    2 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day, we remember Lazarus Spengler, b. 1479, and Nicephorus, d. 829. The reading is "Love is And Was My Lord and King" by A.F. Tennyson.
    Friday, March 13, 2020

  5. Thursday, March 12, 2020

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    03/12/20
    2 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day, we remember Gregory the Great, d. 604, and Paul Gerhardt, b. 1607. The reading is Gerhardt's "O Sacred Head Now Wounded."
    Thursday, March 12, 2020

  6. 120: Friedrich Nietzsche, Progress is Merely a Modern Idea

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    03/11/20
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    That was really traumatizing! I quit! I'm out! Gillespie and Riley read and discuss Friedrich Nietzsche's "Antichrist." This episode, we talk about how Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity can help us check our presuppositions about what Christianity is and is not today. 
    120: Friedrich Nietzsche, Progress is Merely a Modern Idea

  7. Wednesday, March 11, 2020

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    03/11/20
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day, we remember Ralph Abernathy, b. 1926, and James Reeb, d. 1965. The reading is "Prayer" by Christian Wiman.
    Wednesday, March 11, 2020

  8. Tuesday, March 10, 2020

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    03/10/20
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day, we remember Dante's exile in 1302 and John Ogilvie, who died in 1615. The reading is an excerpt from Tim Keller's "The Reason for God."
    Tuesday, March 10, 2020

  9. 119: Erasmus’s Diatribe, Old Testaments Passages Implying Free Choice

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    03/09/20
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Alright. That’s it. No more Old Testament proofs for you. Gillespie and Riley continue to read and discuss Erasmus’ diatribe on Salvation and Free Will. This episode, how to squeeze free will out of the Old Testament.
    119: Erasmus’s Diatribe, Old Testaments Passages Implying Free Choice

  10. Monday, March 9, 2020

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    03/09/20
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day, we remember the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste and Catherine of Bologna. The reading is "By the Cross of Jesus Standing" by Horatius Bonar.
    Monday, March 9, 2020

  11. Sunday, March 8, 2020

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    03/08/20
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day, we remember John Of God, b. 1495, and McCollum v. Board of Ed (1948). The reading is a poem from George MacDonald, "Forgiveness."
    Sunday, March 8, 2020

  12. Saturday, March 7, 2020

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    03/07/20
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day, we remember St. Perpetua & Felicity who died in 203, and Alfred Edersheim, born 1825. The reading is "Remember Me, Implored the Thief" by Emily Dickinson.
    Saturday, March 7, 2020