Christian History Almanac
1517 Podcasts
The Christian History Almanac is a daily 5-minute podcast that highlights those stories- sometimes well known, other times less so- that have shaped the history of the church. Hosted by historian and author Dr. Daniel van Voorhis, each daily podcast concludes with a piece of prose or poetry and the reminder that because of the Good News, everything is going to be ok.
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Aug 8, 2020 • 7min
Saturday, August 8, 2020
The year was 1909, and we remember Mary MacKillop. The reading is from Les Murray's "Poetry and Religion." — FULL TRANSCRIPTS available: https://www.1517.org/podcasts/the-christian-history-almanac GIVE BACK: Support the work of 1517 today CONTACT: CHA@1517.org SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play FOLLOW US: Facebook Twitter Audio production by Christopher Gillespie (gillespie.media).
Aug 7, 2020 • 7min
Friday, August 7, 2020
The year was 1847, and we remember George Rapp. The reading is from Walter Brueggemann, "The Prophetic Imagination." — FULL TRANSCRIPTS available: https://www.1517.org/podcasts/the-christian-history-almanac GIVE BACK: Support the work of 1517 today CONTACT: CHA@1517.org SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play FOLLOW US: Facebook Twitter Audio production by Christopher Gillespie (gillespie.media).
Aug 6, 2020 • 8min
Thursday, August 6, 2020
The year was 1221, and we remember St. Dominic. The reading is from Aquinas' famous hymn, "Pange Lingua." — FULL TRANSCRIPTS available: https://www.1517.org/podcasts/the-christian-history-almanac GIVE BACK: Support the work of 1517 today CONTACT: CHA@1517.org SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play FOLLOW US: Facebook Twitter Audio production by Christopher Gillespie (gillespie.media).
Aug 5, 2020 • 7min
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
The year was 1912, and we remember Henri-Antoine Groues. The reading is "Dominus Illuminatio Mea" by Richard Doddridge Blackmore. — FULL TRANSCRIPTS available: https://www.1517.org/podcasts/the-christian-history-almanac GIVE BACK: Support the work of 1517 today CONTACT: CHA@1517.org SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play FOLLOW US: Facebook Twitter Audio production by Christopher Gillespie (gillespie.media).
Aug 4, 2020 • 7min
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
The year was 1708, and we remember Francis Makemie. The reading is an excerpt from "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. — FULL TRANSCRIPTS available: https://www.1517.org/podcasts/the-christian-history-almanac GIVE BACK: Support the work of 1517 today CONTACT: CHA@1517.org SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play FOLLOW US: Facebook Twitter Audio production by Christopher Gillespie (gillespie.media).
Aug 3, 2020 • 8min
Monday, August 3, 2020
The year was 2008, and we remember Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The reading is a poem from Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago." — FULL TRANSCRIPTS available: https://www.1517.org/podcasts/the-christian-history-almanac GIVE BACK: Support the work of 1517 today CONTACT: CHA@1517.org SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play FOLLOW US: Facebook Twitter Audio production by Christopher Gillespie (gillespie.media).
Aug 2, 2020 • 8min
Sunday, August 2, 2020
The year was 640 and Pope Severinus died. The reading is from Cynewulf's "The Ascension." — FULL TRANSCRIPTS available: https://www.1517.org/podcasts/the-christian-history-almanac GIVE BACK: Support the work of 1517 today CONTACT: CHA@1517.org SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play FOLLOW US: Facebook Twitter Audio production by Christopher Gillespie (gillespie.media).
Aug 1, 2020 • 7min
Saturday, August 1, 2020
The year was 1897 and Pope Leo XIII published his encyclical "Militantis Ecclesiae." The reading is from Philip Yancey, "The Question That Never Goes Away." — FULL TRANSCRIPTS available: https://www.1517.org/podcasts/the-christian-history-almanac GIVE BACK: Support the work of 1517 today CONTACT: CHA@1517.org SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play FOLLOW US: Facebook Twitter Audio production by Christopher Gillespie (gillespie.media).
Jul 31, 2020 • 7min
Friday, July 31, 2020
The year was 1861, and we remember Helen Barrett Montgomery. The reading is a stanza from Henry Lyte's "Abide With Me." — FULL TRANSCRIPTS available: https://www.1517.org/podcasts/the-christian-history-almanac GIVE BACK: Support the work of 1517 today CONTACT: CHA@1517.org SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play FOLLOW US: Facebook Twitter Audio production by Christopher Gillespie (gillespie.media).
Jul 30, 2020 • 7min
Thursday, July 30, 2020
The year was 1419 and the First Defenestration at Prague. The reading is a poem from Czeslaw Milosz, "You Whose Name." — FULL TRANSCRIPTS available: https://www.1517.org/podcasts/the-christian-history-almanac GIVE BACK: Support the work of 1517 today CONTACT: CHA@1517.org SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play FOLLOW US: Facebook Twitter Audio production by Christopher Gillespie (gillespie.media).
