1. The year was 1782 and Congress officially “recommended” the first whole Bible printed in English in America by Robert Aitken. The reading is a Poem by Cowper entitled “For the Poor.”
  2. The year is 2020 and we celebrate the 500th episode of the Almanac. Dan answers five questions explaining how the show is made.
  3. The year was 1067. We remember Lady Godiva. The reading is from the Epistle to the Philippians on the humiliation of Christ.
  4. In this episode, Blake sits down with writer & poet, Tanner Olson AKA Written To Speak. Tanner shares about his journey to becoming a writer & poet, his creative process, and in small ways, how basketball played a role in the journey. You can order Tanner’s new book at WrittenToSpeak.com. Music in this episode is from Chris Ellis and Praise & Warships.
  5. The year was 1952. We remember the television program “Life Is Worth Living." The reading is from St. Augustine, a reminder of the good news of the simplicity of the Christian life.
  6. Welcome to Freely Given, hosted by Gretchen Ronnevik and Katie Koplin.
  7. The year was 1783. We remember Nikolai Frederick Severin Grundtvig. The reading is from Grundtvig, “Holy Spirit, Still our Sorrow.”
  8. The year was 1892. We remember Quaker, poet, abolitionist, and defender of the Christian faith, John Greenleaf Whittier. The reading is a poem from Whittier, "My Namesake."
  9. The year was 1797. We remember Saint Innocent—Metropolitan of Moscow, Enlightener of the Aleuts, and Apostle to the Americas. The reading is from Kate Bowler, an excerpt from "Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved."
  10. The year was 1568, and we remember the curious utopian, Catholic, heretic, and freedom fighter against the Spanish, Tommasso Campanella. The reading is from Arthur Hugh Clough, “With Whom is No Variableness, Neither Shadow of Turning.”
  11. The year was 1646 and Johann Campanius Holm dedicated the first Lutheran church in the new world. The reading is "A Prayer" by Thomas Ken.