1. Pain and suffering; it can feel like punishment from an angry God, and we try to figure out the cause, to our own frustration.
  2. Today on the Almanac, we remember Claude Fleury and his role in both educational reform and church history.
  3. Today on the Almanac, we reflect on the life of Joy Davidman.
  4. Today on the Almanac, we talk about Erasmus, the Reformation, and Textual Criticism.
  5. Today on the Almanac, we head to the mailbag.
  6. Happiness in Slavery. We continue to read and discuss the parable of the Grand Inquisitor, in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s, The Brothers Karamazov. In this episode, the Grand Inquisitor details why Jesus’ rejection of Satan’s temptations in the wilderness doomed humanity.
  7. Today on the Almanac, we tell the story of Bonhoeffer’s return from America to Hitler’s Germany.
  8. Today on the Almanac, we head back to the 15th century to a French king who wanted his reformation of the church.
  9. Today on the Almanac, we remember another American Utopian community and its eccentric founder.
  10. Today on the Almanac, we remember A Christian minister, utopian, and founder of a diet fad.