Truce

Truce explores how we got here and how we can do better. It's a history podcast about the Christian Church, from pyramid schemes to political campaigns. Season six explores the link between some evangelicals and the Republican Party, featuring special guests like Rick Perlstein, Frances Fitzgerald, Jesse Eisinger, and more.

Season five tells the backstory of Christian fundamentalism. Season three follows the rise of communism and socialism in Russia and how it changed the American Christian Church.

Truce is hosted by Chris Staron, writer/ director of the films "Bringing up Bobby" and "Between the Walls", and author of "Cradle Robber".

History
Christianity
Religion
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Behind the Scenes Bonus
Chris Staron takes a look at how hard it is to work 11 hours a day while making Truce
10 min
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Season 6 Trailer
This season we're exploring the backstory to how some evangelicals tied themselves to the Republican Party in the United States
1 min
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Advertising, New Cover Art, Season 6 Update
God-willing, Truce will be back in 2024! For now, we're looking for sponsors to make this show my full time job.
2 min
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Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn (featuring Larry T...
Joseph McCarthy said he was investigating communists in the American government, but he was really building his own career.
44 min
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Love Thy Neighborhood - Where the Gospel Meets ...
Anna and Jesse from "Love Thy Neighborhood" join Chris to talk about Christian opinions of AI
61 min
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Season 6 Update
Truce will be back in the fall or early winter of 2023!
2 min
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Takeaway #5 - The Only Thing We Have to Fear
Franklin Roosevelt gave a profound inaugeral speech in which we uses the phrase "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself". It is a popular saying in Christian books. Are are we using it wrong?
13 min
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Takeaway #4 - We Are A People of the Means
We sometimes hear that "the ends justify the means". But do they? Christians are to be known as people of the means
35 min
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Takeaway #3 - The Great Divorce
C.S. Lewis' "The Great Divorce" is a powerful story of people from hell transported to heaven. Will they choose to join the Kingdom?
12 min
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Takeaway #2 - Extremes Lead to Extremes
What we can learn about evangelicalism from the Congress of Vienna
10 min
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Takeaway #1 - How Should We Deal With Heretics?
The first century Church struggled with a heresy called Gnosticism. What can we learn from 1 John about how to deal with heresy?
17 min
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Inherit the Wind | Christian Fundamentalism Series
The famous play by Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence was a commentary on McCarthyism, but a poor representation of the Scopes trial.
42 min
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The Scopes "Monkey" Trial Part Two | Christian ...
The prosecution had already won. Then Clarence Darrow called William Jennings Bryan to the stand.
36 min
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The Scopes "Monkey" Trial Part One | Christian ...
John Scopes was accused of teaching evolution in a public school in Dayton, TN. Two of the most famous men in the US were called on to fight the case: Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan
34 min
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Are All Christians Anti-Evolution? | Christian ...
In the late 1800s and early 1900s many evangelical and even fundamentalist Christians believed in some form of evolution.
39 min
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Leopold and Loeb | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Friedrich Nietzsche believed that the superman or ubermench was the ultimate goal of humanity. What if two men took that concept and used it to commit murder?
38 min
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Eugenics (Featuring Paul Lombardo) | Christian ...
How Francis Galton used the legacy of Charles Darwin to inspire forced sterelizations in the United States
48 min
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Christmas 2022
Truce will be back with all-new episodes starting January 10th!
1 min
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The Battle for the Presbyterian Soul | Christia...
William Jennings Bryan joins to fight for the Northern Presbyterian denomination to counter the preaching of Harry Emerson Fosdick
25 min
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Mr. Fundamentalist | Christian Fundamentalism S...
William Bell Riley brought the fight to fundamentalism. He formed the World's Christian Fundamentals Association to pick fights against modernism. And lost.
24 min
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World War One I Christian Fundamentalism Series
How William Jennings Bryan's crusade to stay out of WWI shaped the modernist/ fundamentalist debate
37 min
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Exciting News About the Future!
Truce is a little more funded every day!
4 min
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Walter Rauschenbusch and the Great Reversal | C...
In order to understand the modernist/ fundamentalist split we have to first understand the movement that broke them apart.
24 min
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The Fundamentals | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Released between 1910-1915, The Fundamentals were a series of 90 essay aimed at protecting conservative evangelical ideas
42 min
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The Scofield Reference Bible | Christian Fundam...
CI Scofield's Bible helped create the Christian fundamentalist movement. We compare Bible notes to see how commentaries impact Christian readers
21 min