1. The year was 1968. Today we remember Lin Zhao, a Chinese Christian Martyr.
  2. In this episode, Blake sits down with filmmaker, Noah Sampsel. They discuss his love for film, how everyday creative experiences like cooking support his craft, and finding balance between creating for others and working on passion projects.
  3. The year was 160. Today we remember Tertullian, the renegade Church Father. The reading is from Tertullian.
  4. According to the make believe wokeness-ometer, Jesus qualifies as the most authoritative voice because he was the most oppressed. Poor Jew, not from Jerusalem, under Roman rule, betrayed by his own, even his friends, killed because of his identity. Listen to him.
  5. Dr. Paulson refutes the charge that Luther is the origin of an ever secularizing culture.
  6. The year was 1396. Today we remember St. Stephan of Perm. The reading is from Dorothy Sayers.
  7. The year was 1502. Today we remember Georg Major, the man, and the controversies. The reading is from W.H. Auden.
  8. The year was 1915. Today we remember aspects of the Armenian genocide. The reading is from Corrie Ten Boom.
  9. In this Bird's Eye View episode we bring you a talk that Mike gave in February 202 at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mukwonago, WI. The talk was given the day before Valentine's Day, but Mike assured the audience that that was mere coincidence (evidently he and Rev. Bortulin don't always remember the date of Valentines day...shocking, really).
  10. Wade and Mike discuss the ebb and flow of culture throughout history through the lens of two men: Pitirim Sorokin and Frederic Baue. Sorokin was the Russian born sociologist who founded the Sociology department at Harvard University.
  11. ike and Wade discuss Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here, a 1935 dystopian novel of how fascism took hold in the United States. The guys compare and contrast Lewis’ fiction with the current political climate.
  12. Mike and Wade are joined once again by Rev. Dr. Paul Lehninger, who teaches with Wade an Mike at Wisconsin Lutheran College in the theology department.