1. It’s For Your Own Good. We conclude our reading and discussion of Dostoevsky’s, The Grand Inquisitor. What are we willing to sacrifice to accept the devil’s offer of miracles, mystery, and authority? Why do we surrender to temptation, and what do we expect are the consequences? What can we learn from Jesus’ rejection of the devil’s temptations, and what does that mean for Christians today?
  2. Pain and suffering; it can feel like punishment from an angry God, and we try to figure out the cause, to our own frustration.
  3. Fear and great joy at Jesus' resurrection! But also rejection and refusal.
  4. Today on the Almanac, we remember Claude Fleury and his role in both educational reform and church history.
  5. Today on the Almanac, we reflect on the life of Joy Davidman.
  6. Today on the Almanac, we talk about Erasmus, the Reformation, and Textual Criticism.
  7. Today on the Almanac, we head to the mailbag.
  8. 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.
  9. Jesus does not take the easy way out, but takes the hard path so that you don't need to.
  10. Today on the Almanac, we tell the story of Bonhoeffer’s return from America to Hitler’s Germany.