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  1. Monday, October 21, 2019

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    10/21/19
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day, we remember English poet and literary critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge, born 1772. And today is the feast day for St. John of Bridlington, the last saint canonized before the English Reformation. The reading is "Epitaph" by Coleridge.
    Monday, October 21, 2019

  2. Sunday, October 20, 2019

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    10/20/19
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day we remember a defender of the Christian faith, Ernst Hengstenberg, born 1802, and a definer of the faith, P. Schaff, who died on this day in 1893. The reading is "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild" by Anne Bradstreet.
    Sunday, October 20, 2019

  3. Saturday, October 19, 2019

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    10/19/19
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day, the famous Olney Hymns were first published in 1779. And Charles Spurgeon preaches and tragedy strikes the Surrey Gardens Music Hall in 1856. The reading is "Praise for Faith" by William Cowper.
    Saturday, October 19, 2019

  4. Friday, October 18, 2019

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    10/18/19
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day, we celebrate the feast of St. Luke, author of one-quarter of the New Testament. We also remember Christian August Crusius, a counterpart to Kant, who died on this day in 1775. The reading is "Miserere, my Maker," anonymous.
    Friday, October 18, 2019

  5. Thursday, October 17, 2019

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    10/17/19
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day, we remember the controversial Reformation figure Andreas Osiander and the prolific Lutheran theologian Johann Gerhard. The reading is from Gerhard's "Sacred Meditations."
    Thursday, October 17, 2019

  6. Wednesday, October 16, 2019

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    10/16/19
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day, we remember two of the Oxford martyrs, the Reformation-minded Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley. The reading is from "the Dream of Gerontius" by John Henry Newman.
    Wednesday, October 16, 2019

  7. 84: Norman E. Nagel, The Spirit’s Gifts from “The Spirit’s Gifts in the Confessions and in Corinth”

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    10/16/19
    2 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    I’m spiritual, not Spiritual. Gillespie and Riley continue hijacking their podcast to honor their spiritual father, Norman Nagel. This week, we discuss how to sort out gifts we give ourselves and gifts given by God.
    84: Norman E. Nagel, The Spirit’s Gifts from “The Spirit’s Gifts in the Confessions and in Corinth”

  8. Tuesday, October 15, 2019

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    10/15/19
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day, we remember the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1582, replacing the Julian calendar. On this day in 1932, Gladys Aylward left for China and founded The Inn of the Eight Happinesses. The reading is "The Parable of the Sower" by Stephen Mitchell.
    Tuesday, October 15, 2019

  9. Monday, October 14, 2019

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    10/14/19
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day, we remember two poets along with a reading from each: e.e. Cummings, born in 1894, and his poem, "I Thank You, God," and Richard Wilbur, who died in 2017, and his poem, "A Lamp is Lighted."
    Monday, October 14, 2019

  10. Sunday, October 13, 2019

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    10/13/19
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day, we remember Theodore Beza, reformer Calvin's right-hand man, and Louis Berkhof, Dutch-American systematic theologian. The reading is an excerpt from Robert Farrar Capon's "Between Noon and Three."
    Sunday, October 13, 2019

  11. Saturday, October 12, 2019

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    10/12/19
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day, we remember English theologian William Chillingworth, who was born in 1602, and the angel of prisons, Betsy Fry, who died on this day in 1845. The reading is "Jehovah Our Righteousness" by William Cowper.
    Saturday, October 12, 2019

  12. Friday, October 11, 2019

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    10/11/19
    1 min
    By Dan van Voorhis
    On this day, we recognize the opening of Vatican II in 1962, the most significant event in the Roman Catholic church since the Reformation. We also remember Swiss reformer Zwingli, who died on this day in 1531. The reading is Zwingli’s Black Plague hymn.
    Friday, October 11, 2019