1. 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.
  2. Jesus does not take the easy way out, but takes the hard path so that you don't need to.
  3. Today on the Almanac, we tell the story of Bonhoeffer’s return from America to Hitler’s Germany.
  4. Today on the Almanac, we head back to the 15th century to a French king who wanted his reformation of the church.
  5. Today on the Almanac, we remember another American Utopian community and its eccentric founder.
  6. Today on the Almanac, we remember A Christian minister, utopian, and founder of a diet fad.
  7. Today on the Almanac, we head to the mailbag to answer a question about the historical legacy of the modern church.
  8. Why? Why? Why? We read and discuss Dostoevsky’s parable of the Grand Inquisitor. What happens when we discuss evil and the work of the evil one apart from God’s Word, his preacher, and Christ’s cross?
  9. The irony of guilt and innocence abounds in this passage: Jesus is innocent but condemned; we are guilty but set free.