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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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.
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.
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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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Christmas 2022
Truce will be back with all-new episodes starting January 10th!
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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
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Exciting News About the Future!
Truce is a little more funded every day!
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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.
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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
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The Treaties of William Jennings Bryan | Christ...
We know William Jennings Bryan for his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial. But most of us don't know about his contribution to world peace.
13 min
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Looking Backward | Christian Fundamentalism Series
A socialist story that shaped the way people thought about labor in the 1800s
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In His Steps Discussion
We read the book "In His Steps" by Charles Sheldon. Now we're going to discuss what it means and the social gospel.
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In His Steps (part 3)
The conclusion of the class Christian fiction novel by Charles Sheldon
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In His Steps (part 2)
The classic Christian fiction audiobook brought to life by the host of the Truce Podcast
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Bonus Episode - In His Steps
A special bonus for patrons of the show!
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In His Steps (part 1)
A reading of this classic Christian novel by Charles Sheldon
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The Holiness Movement | Christian Fundamentalis...
John Wesley and the search for a sinless life
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Moody's Lieutenants | Christian Fundamentalism ...
The guys who built the modern fundamentalism movement took their pattern from a guy who was not a fundamentalist
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