Saints Gone Before

We had a mix up! Due to the lateness of the hour we recorded what we listed as SGB 9, "part 3" of this text, was actually part 4. We skipped a section! THIS episode with part 3 rectifies the situation with what is ACTUALLY part 3. Enjoy! The text comes from Henry Wace and C. A. Buchheim, First Principles of the Reformation, London: John Murray, 1883. If you’d like, you can follow along on archive.org. This podcast takes requests! If you would like to request a specific book, sermon, or other Christian text, please e-mail us at churchhistorypodcast@gmail.com or tweet us @OralHistoryPod. Reader: Adam Christman

We continue Martin Luther’s Concerning Christian Liberty this week with part 2. The text comes from Henry Wace and C. A. Buchheim, First Principles of the Reformation, London: John Murray, 1883. If you’d like, you can follow along on archive.org. Come back next week for part 3! This podcast takes requests! If you would like to request a specific book, sermon, or other Christian text, please e-mail us at churchhistorypodcast@gmail.com or tweet us @OralHistoryPod. Reader: Adam Christman

This week, we begin Martin Luther’s Concerning Christian Liberty. The text comes from Henry Wace and C. A. Buchheim, First Principles of the Reformation, London: John Murray, 1883. If you’d like, you can follow along on archive.org. Come back next week for part 2! This podcast takes requests! (Just not "Free Bird.") If you would like to request a specific book, sermon, or other Christian text, please e-mail us at churchhistorypodcast@gmail.com or tweet us @OralHistoryPod. Reader: Jonathan McCormick

2017 is the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. We began our look back at that period last week with the Schleitheim Confession. Today, we read the Letter of Martin Luther to Pope Leo X. The text comes from Henry Wace and C. A. Buchheim, First Principles of the Reformation, London: John Murray, 1883. If you’d like, you can follow along on archive.org. Come back next Monday for the first part of Martin Luther’s Concerning Christian Liberty. Would you like to request a specific book, sermon, or other Christian text? E-mail us at churchhistorypodcast@gmail.com or tweet us @OralHistoryPod.

Today’s reading comes from the Anabaptist tradition by way of the Swiss Brethren Conference on February 24, 1527. It is known as the Schleitheim Confession. Largely available in German at the time, this English translation comes from William Joseph McGlothlin’s 1911 volume Baptist Confessions of Faith. You can follow along on archive.org (https://archive.org/details/baptistconfessio00mcgl) or you can find a modern translation from many other sources, including Anabaptists.org: http://www.anabaptists.org/history/the-schleitheim-confession.html 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the official start of the Protestant Reformation! You can expect a lot of Reformation-related primary sources this year on Saints Gone Before, so make sure you're subscribed! Do you want to request a specific book, sermon, or other Christian text? E-mail us at churchhistorypodcast@gmail.com or tweet us @OralHistoryPod.

We have a slew of Christmas carols for you this time that we found of special interest. This episode was tougher to get recorded since the reader was sick as a dog at the time! Please forgive any low energy he had this time around. Next episode, we'll have something from the background of the Protestant Reformation that you may find interesting. The Reformation sees its 500th anniversary in 2017, so this next text is the beginning of a long series of episodes featuring Reformation texts. Do you have questions, or any suggestions for us to read? E-mail us at churchhistorypodcast@gmail.com, or tweet us @OralHistoryPod.

In the spirit of Christmas, we're reading lesser-known Christmas carols here on Saints Gone Before. Here are their names and other data, in the order they were read. “On Christmas Night All Christians Sing,” from Henry Bramley and John Stainer’s Christmas Carols New and Old (1878), using c. 1870 lyrics. “Come All You Worthy Gentlemen,” aka the Somerset Carol. First collected by Cecil Sharp in Folk Songs from Somerset (second edition, 1909) from a Mr. Rapsey at the turn of the 20th century. “In the Bleak Midwinter,” based on an 1870s poem by Christina Rosetti. “The Truth Sent From Above,” or “The Shropshire Carol,” also collected by Cecil Sharp, comes from Mr. Seth Vandrell and Mr. Samuel Bradley of Donninglon Wood of Shropshire, England, at the turn of the 20th century. Come back for part 2, next Monday! Do you have questions, or any suggestions for us to read? E-mail us at churchhistorypodcast@gmail.com, or tweet us @OralHistoryPod. Merry Christmas!

Saints Gone Before is a weekly audiobook style podcast in 10-20 minute episodes where we read Christian texts from across the history of the church. Some readings will be sermons, others will be letters, or hymns, or prayers, or books. All of them are public domain. This episode features The Didache, chapters 9-16, which completes this 2nd century text. Next time: Christmas hymns! (Spoken, not sung!)

Saints Gone Before is a weekly audiobook style podcast in 10-20 minute episodes where we read Christian texts from across the history of the church. Some readings will be sermons, others will be letters, or hymns, or prayers, or books. All of them are public domain. Our inaugural episode features the first half of an early Christian work called "The Didache." It is essentially an early church manual helping congregations know best practices for baptism, etc., as well as some chapters on ethical teaching. Enjoy! We'll be back next week with the second half of the Didache.