1. The year was 160. Today we remember Tertullian, the renegade Church Father. The reading is from Tertullian.
  2. 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.
  3. Dr. Paulson refutes the charge that Luther is the origin of an ever secularizing culture.
  4. The year was 1396. Today we remember St. Stephan of Perm. The reading is from Dorothy Sayers.
  5. Mike and Wade discuss the two kingdoms (or spheres, realms, etc.) and the Christian life as part of both church and state in light of the fourth chapter of Althaus' The Ethics of Martin Luther for Wade's PHI 201 course.
  6. The year was 1502. Today we remember Georg Major, the man, and the controversies. The reading is from W.H. Auden.
  7. The year was 1915. Today we remember aspects of the Armenian genocide. The reading is from Corrie Ten Boom.
  8. 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).
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. The year was 1960. Today we remember Toyohiko Kagawa. The reading is Anya Krugovoy Silver's "No, It's Not."
  12. In episode ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY Wade and Mike returning guest and friend, Rev. Bror Erickson. For listener who have heard our conversations with Rev. Erickson in the past, you'll no be surprised that he continues to translate the works of Bo Giertz into English. On this episode he discusses his most recent translations, which are of select sermons from Giertz.