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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Non-Profits are not for everyone
5 min
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Spiritual Life and Leadership
Markus Watson talks with Chris about Truce
50 min
153
The Case Against the Pledge
How the Pledge of Allegiance Stopped Being Mandatory
9 min
154
Your Youth Group Trip Was Cancelled - Now What?
Truce Podcast Needs Your Help
3 min
155
The Pledge of Allegiance (Featuring Charles Dorn)
The Weird History of How a Christian Socialist Wrote the Pledge of Allegiance
32 min
156
Truce Needs Your Support
2 min
157
Empire: The Game!
Is empire always a bad thing? We played a game to find out.
36 min
158
Home of the Forgotten
How a "Christian" nation forgets its own people
24 min
159
Teddy Roosevelt and the Guano Islands
How bird poop and Teddy Roosevelt reshaped the American map
28 min
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How to Hide an Empire (featuring Daniel Immerwahr)
Is the USA an empire?
18 min
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Is the US a Christian Nation?
Questioning the Christian America Argument with Gregg Frazer
28 min
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Is Revolution Biblical?
Questioning the Biblical Backing of the American Revolution
19 min
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Faith of the Founding Fathers (featuring Dr. Gr...
Were the Founding Fathers Deists or Christians?
34 min
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Why Are We Covering This? A Conversation with E...
Why is a Christian Podcast Covering Communism, Socialism, and Capitalism?
25 min
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Godless Utopia (featuring Roland Elliott Brown)
The story of anti-Christian Soviet propaganda
28 min
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Pioneer 1
How the Soviets Created The Myth of the Perfect Citizen
9 min
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Vladimir Prokhnevskiy: Christian Refugee from U...
How Soviets Oppressed Christians
25 min
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Religious Persecution Under the Soviet Union
28 min
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The Rise of Lenin and Stalin
How Lenin and Stalin killed millions of their own people
26 min
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What is the Difference Between Communism and So...
What is the difference between communism and socialism?
30 min
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History of The Russian Church
How Russian history was shaped (for better or worse) by Christianity
33 min
172
A Russian Christmas
Why Russians celebrate Christmas and New Years on different days than the US
20 min
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Christmas Episode Exchange
21 min
174
Rasputin
The rogue monk who helped bring down the Romanov dynasty.
29 min
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The Fall of the Romanovs (2 of 2)
The murder that changed modern Christianity - the Romanovs and the fall of tsarist Russia.
21 min