1. Life Isn’t Fair, and The World Is Mean. In this episode, we discuss Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac while reading Kierkegaard’s commentary on it and comparing it to Martin Luther and Rene Girard’s comments on it. It’s a meta-meta episode, and one of us confuses Kierkegaard’s biography with that of Nietzsche for much of the episode.
  2. Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we remember a watershed moment in the history of the church in India: the Synod of Diamper.
  3. The Thinking Fellows discuss the doctrine of faith. Faith is not an ability or power inside of you but a gift from God.
  4. In this episode of Tough Text, Scott Keith and Daniel Emery Price discuss the parable of the rich man and Lazarus from Luke 16, emphasizing the importance of understanding it as a parable rather than a literal account.
  5. In episode TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-EIGHT, Mike, Jason, and Wade build on our previous two episodes on travel, books and language and time and space. Where is God present?
  6. Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we remember another John Brown, who had a “self-interpreting” Bible.
  7. David and Adam use an old Greek myth as the starting point for a conversation about confirmation bias and other shortcomings to understand and make sense of things.
  8. Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the only woman ever tortured on the rack in Reformation England.
  9. On this episode of Preaching the Text, John Hoyum and Steve Paulson discuss the story of Jesus falling asleep in the boat.
  10. Today, on the Christian History Almanac, we head to the mailbag to answer a question about contemporary Christian music and its historical parallels.