Podcast Episodes

Inherit the Wind | Christian Fundamentalism Series

Season 5 Episode 31

US Senator Joseph McCarthy unleashed an era of suspicion on the American people as he went looking for communists. His trials, both public and behind closed doors, focused on the government as well a…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

The Scopes "Monkey" Trial Part Two | Christian Fundamentalism Series

Season 5 Episode 30

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The trial was basically over. The prosecution won. John Scopes was moments away from being convicted of teaching evolution in Dayton, Tennessee. The ACLU an…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

The Scopes "Monkey" Trial Part One | Christian Fundamentalism Series

Season 5 Episode 29

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Tennessee was the first state in the United States to crack down hard on the teaching of evolution in public schools. Others had dabbled, but Tennessee went all …

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Are All Christians Anti-Evolution? | Christian Fundamentalism Series

Season 5 Episode 28

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In the 1600s, an Irish Archbishop named James Ussher did a bunch of math. The Bible is full of numbers and genealogies. He sat down and calculated that, in his opinion…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

Leopold and Loeb | Christian Fundamentalism Series

Season 5 Episode 27

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Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were wealthy young men in the early 1920s. They lived in big homes in Chicago and had world-class educations. They were both pushed hard …

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

Eugenics (featuring Paul Lombardo) | Christian Fundamentalism Series

Season 5 Episode 27

Eugenics. It's one of those words that gets thrown around these days, often by people accusing "the other side" of wrongdoing. But what is eugenics?

I invited law professor Paul Lombardo, author of "T…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Christmas 2022

Truce will be back on January 10th! Chris is working through the whole break in order to prepare for his big presentation in front of his church. He's trying to get Truce fully funded for 2023.

New ep…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

The Battle for the Presbyterian Soul | Christian Fundamentalism Series

Season 5 Episode 25

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Harry Emerson Fosdick had a certain reputation. He was the theological "bad boy" of modernist theology when he stood at a lectern in the 1920s and deliv…

Published on 3 years ago

Mr. Fundamentalist | Christian Fundamentalism Series

Season 5 Episode 24

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So far this season I've covered William Jennings Bryan, a man who enjoyed the nickname "Mr. Fundamentalist". But he wasn't really a fundamentalist. Expe…

Published on 3 years ago

World War One I Christian Fundamentalism Series

Season 5 Episode 23

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The modernish/ fundamentalist controversy was heating up in the early 1900s. Conservatives saw…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago