1. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the extremely influential medieval order of the Cistercians.
  2. First It Giveth. In this episode, we discuss Jonah’s vocation, gospel imagination, dogmatic materialism, spell casting, the contemporary effects of the Industrial Revolution, and God’s preference for wasted places while reading Eugene Peterson's Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness.
  3. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember Isaac Newton and consider his study of God’s “Two Books.”
  4. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the man who “invented” the Biblical concordance.
  5. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the Frankfurt Recess of 1558 and what it meant for the future of the Reformation.
  6. On this episode of Preaching the Text, John Hoyum and Steve Paulson discuss a story of Jesus in which he speaks of a tree not bearing fruit.
  7. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we head to the mailbag to answer a question about “evangelicalism.”
  8. Today on the Christian History Almanac, we get wild for both Pi Day and Einstein’s Birthday (!?)