Podcast Episodes

186: Christmas During the Civil War

Can We Just Have A Civil Christmas? In the episode, what was Christmas like during the Civil War? Puritans, holiday traditions, and why the Church is an incarnate Church.

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185: Christmas after the Enlightenment

Have Yourself A Very Enlightened Christmas. In this episode, an examination of the impact of the Enlightenment on the Church, especially the preaching and traditions of Advent and Christmas.

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184: Bowler - Christmas in Nazi Germany

It's Christmas in Germany for Hitler. In this episode, a historical examination of Christmas in Germany during the Nazi regime, including new hymns, advent calendars, the emergence of Wotan, and Hitl…

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183: Sasse - The secular and the spiritual are indeed to be dearly distinguished

A shelter from pigs on the wing... In this episode, how do Christians interface with a godless state, love our neighbors without being complicit in promoting sin, and maintain the tension between the…

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182: Sasse - The office of the governing authority belongs to God's created order

You Know Who Else Misunderstood The Kingdom of God? Hitler! In this episode, we read Herman Sasse's 1930 essay on The Social Doctrine of the Augsburg Confession and its Significance for the Present. …

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181: Chesterton - Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God

Chairman Mao Loves Ice Cream. In this episode, G.K. Chesterton on what happens when we abolish God, and the government becomes the god. We discuss "unalienable rights endowed by the Creator." The lan…

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179: Girolamo Savaronola - O you who have anything superfluous, give it to the poor!

The Pirates of Penance part 2. In this episode, we continue to examine Girolamo Savaronola's sermon on penance. What happened in Florence that occasioned this sermon, and what can it teach us about c…

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178: Girolamo Savaronola - Do penance, Do it now!

The Pirates of Penance, part 1. In this episode, we look at pre-Reformation preaching. Girolamo Savaronola's sermon on penance is read and discussed. What is penance, what effect did the sacrament of…

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180: Whitford - The Church and State Have Existed in An Often Unhealthy Tension

It's The Most Important Election of Our Lives, Until The Next Election In this special election episode, Gillespie and Riley read David Whitford's book, "Tyranny and Resistance," and discuss church, …

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177: Clement of Alexandria - True martyrdom is the knowledge of the only true God

Stop Showing Off and Get Back in Line... In part two of our reading of Clement of Alexandria's, The Praises of Martyrdom Those Who Offered Themselves for Martyrdom Reproved, we discuss when martyrdom…

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