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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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.
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Republicans and Evangelicals I The New Deal
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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
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Republicans and Evangelicals I Can I Love Extre...
In an era of deep division in evangelicalism, when some Christians define their faith by the actions of Donald Trump or megapastors, how can we carry forth the gospel even when we're hurting?
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Republicans and Evangelicals I Long Southern St...
Angie Maxwell joins the Truce Podcast to explore how the Republican Party changed in the 1950s and 60s in order to court white southern voters
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Republicans and Evangelicals I Billy Graham and...
Billy Graham and Richard Nixon were friends, even after the events of the Watergate scandal came to light.
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Republicans and Evangelicals I Harold Ockenga -...
Harold Ockenga and Billy Graham attempted to unite evangelicals around the National Association of Evangelicals
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Republicans and Evangelicals I Prologue: What I...
Thomas McIntyre stood before Congress to discuss the New Right's dirty tactics in fighting the Panama Canal treaty
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Season 6 Update
Truce will be back in the fall or early winter of 2023!
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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?
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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
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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?
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Takeaway #2 - Extremes Lead to Extremes
What we can learn about evangelicalism from the Congress of Vienna
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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?
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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
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