Truce - History of the Christian Church
Truce explores the history of the evangelical church in America, from fundamentalism to pyramid schemes to political campaigns. Host Chris Staron uses journalistic tools to investigate how the church got here and how it can do better.
The current season follows the rise of the Religious Right, examining the link between evangelicals and the Republican Party. Featuring special guests like Rick Perlstein, Frances Fitzgerald, Jesse Eisinger, Daniel K. Williams, and more.
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Bonus: Compelled: A New Song
How God changed the life of a member of New Song and his wife
50 min
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Republicans and Evangelicals I Milton Friedman ...
Historian Jennifer Burns returns to discuss Milton Friedman's role in the creation of school voucher programs and how close he got to racism in his ideas
25 min
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Republicans and Evangelicals I Milton Friedman ...
Jennifer Burns, author of "Milton Friedman: the Last Conservative" joins Chris to discuss the impact of Milton Friedman, monetarism, and why some evangelicals advocate for free markets
35 min
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Republicans and Evangelicals I William F. Buckl...
William F. Buckley formed YAF to promote his ideals among young people. But people like Murray Rothbard, Ayn Rand, and the John Birch Society tried to overtake YAF.
14 min
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Republicans and Evangelicals I William F. Buckl...
William F. Buckley Jr. gave conservatism an intellectual bearing through his TV show "Firing Line", as well as his books like "God and Man at Yale" and his "National Review" journal.
41 min
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Republicans and Evangelicals I Barry Goldwater ...
Barry Goldwater's run for president in 1964 invited extremists into the GOP including those in the John Birch Society
40 min
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Republicans and Evangelicals I Barry Goldwater ...
Barry Goldwater lost his bid for president by the greatest margin in US presidential history in 1964 when he lost to Lyndon Johnson. His candidacy introduced extremism to the GOP
36 min
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Republicans and Evangelicals I The John Birch S...
The John Birch Society was founded by candy magnate Robert Welch and used its power to spread lies about Earl Warren and Dwight Eisenhower. It also had an outsized role in nominating Barry Goldwater for the 1964 RNC nominee.
41 min
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Republicans and Evangelicals | A Brief History ...
Murray Rothbard, Ayn Rand, Friedrich Hayek, and Robert Nozick have shaped American Christianity. So let's learn who they are!
60 min
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Republicans and Evangelicals I How Bad Drivers ...
Romans 12-15 walk believers through helpful goals to protect unity among the Body of Christ. Today we look at how these ideas can help Christians recovering from a contentious election and a potentially stressful holiday season.
40 min
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Republicans and Evangelicals I How the Wealthy ...
Pulitzer Prize winner Jesse Eisinger explains how the ultra wealthy use buy, borrow, die to avoid income taxes and the history of the income tax
44 min
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Republicans and Evangelicals I Fundamentalist T...
It took decades, but members of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) turned that denomination into a fundamentalist group through efforts of people like Paige Patterson
26 min
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Mike Cosper: The Church in Dark Times
Why do some evangelical pastors and leaders become tyrants? How do we overcome church abuse?
38 min
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The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
Chris read's Edgar Allen Poe's classic short story "The Cask of Amontillado"
15 min
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Republicans and Evangelicals I Frances Schaeffe...
Frances Schaeffer's L'Abri was a sanctuary in the Swiss Alps. But his ideas of fear and Christian nationalism extended well beyond his chalet through his books and lectures.
50 min
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Republicans and Evangelicals I Women's Roundtab...
Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" kicked off second wave feminism. But it also touched off a response from conservative women who wrote books like "The Total Woman" and "The Spirit Controlled Woman"
48 min
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Compelled - KKK Terrorist Finds Christ
A bonus episode of Truce that features the Compelled Podcast
31 min
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Republicans and Evangelicals I National Women's...
When conservative women were left out of the National Women's Conference of 1977, they held their own. It was a pro-family, pro-life conference featuring Phyllis Schlafly and Lottie Beth Hobbs
36 min
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Republicans and Evangelicals I National Women's...
Phyllis Schlafly ended the ERA. But the Congress made plans to bring women together in 1977 for the National Women's Conference. The problem is, they left out women on the far-right. So conservative women started a conferece of their own
47 min
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Chris Quits Driving A School Bus
Chris Staron has driven a school bus while producing this podcast for seven years now. It's time for him to finally do Truce full time.
3 min
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Republicans and Evangelicals I Phyllis Schlafly...
Phyllis Schlafly may be single-handedly responsible for the Religious Right. But why has her story been forgoten?
32 min
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Republicans and Evangelicals I RJ Rushdoony and...
47 min
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Republicans and Evangelicals I Kanawha County T...
In Kanawha County, West Virginia in 1974 a school board member named Alice Moore protested certain textbooks from being used in public school. A few months later, the schools were bombed.
32 min
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Republicans and Evangelicals I The New Deal
33 min
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Republicans and Evangelicals I End of School Pr...
The 1962 court case Engel v Vitale made it illegal for prescribed prayers to appear in public schools. This is the story of the short-lived effort to have prayer in New York schools
26 min