1. Tick, Tick, Boom. In this episode of Banned Books, we discuss Romans 3 while reading Philip Melanchthon’s commentary on Paul’s epistle. The main topics of conversation are the limitations of the law, faith that saves, gratuitous forgiveness and the living, and the present tense power of the gospel.
  2. Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the man remembered as, “the Pillar of Faith and the Seal of All of the Fathers”: Cyril of Alexandria.
  3. Justification is famously called the article upon which the church stands or falls. It is the article upon which The Lutheran Reformation stood boldly and confessed the Scriptural truth that we are made right before God by grace through faith on account of Christ alone.
  4. Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the author who linked a Nobel Prize, a Pulitzer, Chinese Missions, and the Fundamentalist controversy: Pearl S. Buck.
  5. Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we remember a red letter day in the history of the [Lutheran] Church.
  6. Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we head to the mailbag to answer a question about the disciple of Jesus.
  7. Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we remember St. Aloysius of Gonzaga- the patron saint of Christian students.
  8. Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we remember a watershed moment in the history of the church in India: the Synod of Diamper.
  9. Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we remember another John Brown, who had a “self-interpreting” Bible.
  10. Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the only woman ever tortured on the rack in Reformation England.
  11. Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we head to the mailbag to answer a question about contemporary Christian music and its historical parallels.