Truce - History of the Christian Church

By Chris Staron

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Subscribers: 76
Reviews: 3
Episodes: 177

Callie
 Mar 14, 2024
Fantastic podcast with sharp editing and amazingly detailed research. I constantly find myself discovering new intersecting ideas that blow my mind (and lead to endless rabbit trails of my own). This is a truly amazing podcast.

Bridget B
 Jan 20, 2023
Well researched. No agenda. Presenting the history of the Christian movement. Could use a co-host to add more commentary.

Chris G
 Jun 4, 2021
A left leaning podcast. Boldly anti Trump host. Masquerading as a Christian Podcast. I couldn't make it through episode 2.

Description

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.

Episode Date
Mike Cosper: The Church in Dark Times
Nov 04, 2024
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
Oct 29, 2024
Republicans and Evangelicals I Frances Schaeffer and the Shaping of Christian Nationalism (feat. Barry Hankins)
Oct 22, 2024
Republicans and Evangelicals I Women's Roundtable Book Discussion
Oct 08, 2024
Compelled - KKK Terrorist Finds Christ
Oct 02, 2024
Republicans and Evangelicals I National Women's Conference Part 2 (featuring Marjorie Spruill)
Sep 24, 2024
Republicans and Evangelicals I National Women's Conference Part 1 (featuring Marjorie Spruill)
Sep 10, 2024
Chris Quits Driving A School Bus
Sep 07, 2024
Republicans and Evangelicals I Phyllis Schlafly and the ERA (featuring Marjorie Spruill)
Aug 27, 2024
Republicans and Evangelicals I RJ Rushdoony and Christian Reconstruction
Aug 13, 2024
Republicans and Evangelicals I Kanawha County Textbook War
Jul 30, 2024
Republicans and Evangelicals I The New Deal
Jul 09, 2024
Republicans and Evangelicals I End of School Prayer
Jun 25, 2024
Republicans and Evangelicals I Can I Love Extremists?
Jun 11, 2024
Republicans and Evangelicals I Long Southern Strategy (featuring Angie Maxwell)
May 28, 2024
Republicans and Evangelicals I Billy Graham and Nixon
May 14, 2024
Republicans and Evangelicals I Harold Ockenga - Can Christians Unite? (featuring Joel Carpenter)
Apr 30, 2024
Republicans and Evangelicals I Prologue: What Is Biblical?
Apr 16, 2024
Behind the Scenes Bonus
Mar 26, 2024
Season 6 Trailer
Mar 19, 2024
Advertising, New Cover Art, Season 6 Update
Dec 21, 2023
Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn (featuring Larry Tye, author of Demagogue)
Sep 12, 2023
Love Thy Neighborhood - Where the Gospel Meets Artificial Intelligence
Aug 29, 2023
Season 6 Update
Jul 04, 2023
Takeaway #5 - The Only Thing We Have to Fear
Jun 13, 2023
Takeaway #4 - We Are A People of the Means
May 30, 2023
Takeaway #3 - The Great Divorce
May 16, 2023
Takeaway #2 - Extremes Lead to Extremes
May 02, 2023
Takeaway #1 - How Should We Deal With Heretics?
Apr 18, 2023
Inherit the Wind | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Mar 21, 2023
The Scopes "Monkey" Trial Part Two | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Mar 07, 2023
The Scopes "Monkey" Trial Part One | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Feb 21, 2023
Are All Christians Anti-Evolution? | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Feb 07, 2023
Leopold and Loeb | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Jan 24, 2023
Eugenics (Featuring Paul Lombardo) | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Jan 10, 2023
Christmas 2022
Dec 20, 2022
The Battle for the Presbyterian Soul | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Dec 06, 2022
Mr. Fundamentalist | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Nov 22, 2022
World War One I Christian Fundamentalism Series
Nov 08, 2022
Exciting News About the Future!
Nov 01, 2022
Walter Rauschenbusch and the Great Reversal | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Oct 25, 2022
The Fundamentals | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Oct 11, 2022
The Scofield Reference Bible | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Sep 27, 2022
The Treaties of William Jennings Bryan | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Sep 13, 2022
Looking Backward | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Aug 30, 2022
In His Steps Discussion
Aug 16, 2022
In His Steps (part 3)
Aug 02, 2022
In His Steps (part 2)
Jul 26, 2022
Bonus Episode - In His Steps
Jul 22, 2022
In His Steps (part 1)
Jul 19, 2022
The Holiness Movement | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Jul 05, 2022
Moody's Lieutenants | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Jun 21, 2022
D.L. Moody | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Jun 07, 2022
Social Darwinism and the Spanish-American War | Christian Fundamentalism Series
May 24, 2022
Populism | Christian Fundamentalism Series
May 10, 2022
The Gold Standard and the Great Depression
May 03, 2022
The Gold Standard | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Apr 26, 2022
How Do We Deal with Christian Fundamentalism? | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Apr 12, 2022
The Liberals | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Mar 29, 2022
The End of Reconstruction | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Mar 15, 2022
Dispensationalism and John Nelson Darby | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Mar 01, 2022
Premillennialism and Postmillennialism | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Feb 15, 2022
What Is An Evangelical? | Christian Fundamentalism Series
Feb 01, 2022
Season Five Trailer - The History of Christian Fundamentalism
Jan 18, 2022
Christmas and the Sermon on the Mount
Dec 23, 2021
King Leopold's Ghost (feat. Adam Hochschild)
Oct 26, 2021
Christians and the British Slave Trade (feat. Adam Hochschild)
Oct 12, 2021
Can I Still Love the Church?
Aug 17, 2021
100th Episode
Aug 03, 2021
The American West: Is It A Sin to Be Wealthy? (featuring Yale Professor Justin Farrell)
Jul 20, 2021
The American West: Conservation Easements
Jul 06, 2021
The American West: Johnson County War
Jun 22, 2021
The American West: Jesus and John Wayne (feat. Kristin Kobes Du Mez)
Jun 08, 2021
Kaitlyn Schiess and Our Four False Gospels
May 25, 2021
Jemar Tisby and How to Fight Racism
May 11, 2021
Takeaway 5: It's Easier to Call People to a Heritage Than A Saving Faith
Apr 27, 2021
Takeaway 4: Complexity is Cool
Apr 20, 2021
Takeaway 3: Treat Labor Well
Apr 13, 2021
Takeaway 2: Communism as a Scapegoat (feat. Jemar Tisby)
Apr 06, 2021
Takeaway 1: Think Deeper About the Past
Mar 30, 2021
How to Deal With Christian Nationalism
Mar 16, 2021
Skye Jethani and Post-Christian America
Mar 02, 2021
Is School Prayer Illegal?
Feb 16, 2021
Jerry Falwell and Apartheid (feat. Melani McAlister)
Feb 02, 2021
Exporting Jesus and the American Way (feat. Melani McAlister)
Jan 19, 2021
A Christian Response to the Attack on the US Capitol
Jan 07, 2021
McCarthyism Before McCarthy
Jan 05, 2021
Positive Memories of 2020
Dec 30, 2020
Christmas Episode Exchange
Dec 22, 2020
Are Nativity Scenes Illegal on Public Land?
Dec 08, 2020
The American Coup in Guatemala
Nov 24, 2020
Billy Graham v. Communism (feat. David Aikman)
Nov 10, 2020
We Want a King
Oct 27, 2020
Rebrodcast: Why Does Donald Trump Appeal to Evangelicals?
Oct 20, 2020
The Ad Council, CIA, and Christian America (feat. Wendy Melillo)
Oct 13, 2020
Rebroadcast: Fatty Arbuckle and the MPAA
Oct 06, 2020
Marketing Christian Libertarianism
Sep 29, 2020
The National Prayer Breakfast and The Family
Sep 15, 2020
An Evaluation
Sep 08, 2020
The New Deal (feat. Justin Rosolino)
Sep 01, 2020
Is the Church with Workers? (feat Heath Carter)
Aug 18, 2020
The Pew and the Picket Line (feat. Heath Carter)
Aug 04, 2020
$12,400
Jul 28, 2020
Spiritual Life and Leadership
Jul 21, 2020
The Case Against the Pledge
Jul 14, 2020
Your Youth Group Trip Was Cancelled - Now What?
Jul 07, 2020
The Pledge of Allegiance (Featuring Charles Dorn)
Jul 03, 2020
Truce Needs Your Support
Jul 01, 2020
Empire: The Game!
Jun 23, 2020
Home of the Forgotten
Jun 09, 2020
Teddy Roosevelt and the Guano Islands
May 26, 2020
How to Hide an Empire (featuring Daniel Immerwahr)
May 12, 2020
Is the US a Christian Nation?
Apr 28, 2020
Is Revolution Biblical?
Apr 14, 2020
Faith of the Founding Fathers (featuring Dr. Gregg L. Frazer)
Mar 30, 2020
Why Are We Covering This? A Conversation with Eric Nevins
Mar 27, 2020
Godless Utopia (featuring Roland Elliott Brown)
Mar 17, 2020
Pioneer 1
Mar 03, 2020
Vladimir Prokhnevskiy: Christian Refugee from Ukraine
Feb 25, 2020
Religious Persecution Under the Soviet Union
Feb 18, 2020
The Rise of Lenin and Stalin
Feb 04, 2020
What is the Difference Between Communism and Socialism?
Jan 21, 2020
History of The Russian Church
Jan 07, 2020
A Russian Christmas
Dec 24, 2019
Christmas Episode Exchange
Dec 18, 2019
Rasputin
Dec 10, 2019
The Fall of the Romanovs (2 of 2)
Nov 26, 2019
Romanov Stroganoff (1 of 2)
Nov 12, 2019
Phil Vischer (creator of VeggieTales)
Oct 29, 2019
Season 3 Trailer
Oct 17, 2019
The Faith of Napoleon Bonaparte
Sep 03, 2019
Patreon/ Season 3 Update featuring Eric Nevins of Halfway There
Aug 27, 2019
We are the 99%
Aug 06, 2019
Leverage: How Wealthy Christians Use Money to Change the Church
Jul 30, 2019
John D. Rockefeller: Money in the Church
Jul 23, 2019
Are Christians Supposed to Tithe?
Jul 16, 2019
Using the Internet to Reach Muslims
Jun 25, 2019
Population Scare!
Jun 25, 2019
Reaching Muslims featuring Samy Tanagho
Jun 18, 2019
Should Christians Fear Muslims?
Jun 11, 2019
Embryo Adoption - featuring Nate Birt of "Frozen But Not Forgotten"
Jun 05, 2019
Fatty Arbuckle and the MPAA
May 28, 2019
Censorship
May 21, 2019
How Multi-Level Marketing Targets Christians (4 of 4)
May 07, 2019
The Amway Decision (feautring Robert Fitzpatrick of Pyramid Scheme Alert) (3 of 4)
Apr 30, 2019
The Human Cost of Multi-Level Marketing (featuring Robert Fitzpatrick) (2 of 4)
Apr 23, 2019
Multi-Level Marketing, Pyramid, and Ponzi Schemes (1 of 4)
Apr 16, 2019
Prosperity and Reformed: Follow the Money
Apr 10, 2019
The Prosperity Gospel (featuring Brandon Kimber from American Gospel)
Apr 02, 2019
Leadership (featuring Mark Galli of Christianity Today)
Mar 26, 2019
Failure as a Weapon (featuring Andrew Schwab of Project 86)
Mar 19, 2019
The Influencer Economy (featuring Andrew Schwab of Project 86)
Mar 12, 2019
Your Media Time Out Experiences
Mar 05, 2019
The Media Time Out
Feb 26, 2019
Trailer: The Influencer Economy
Jan 24, 2019
The Christmas Truce
Dec 18, 2018
The Rosetta Stone
Dec 11, 2018
Christianity Today's Living and Effective
Nov 20, 2018
Help! (For One Minute)
Nov 13, 2018
Predicting the End
Nov 06, 2018
Suffrage: The Textbook and the Hatchet (2 of 2)
Oct 30, 2018
Suffrage: How Women Stopped the Drink and Gained the Vote (1 of 2)
Oct 23, 2018
Is Jesus Eternal?: Begotten
Oct 09, 2018
A Roman Emperor and the Easter Bunny
Oct 02, 2018
Constantine: Council of Nicaea and the Spread of Relics
Sep 25, 2018
Constantine: Persecuted to Preferred
Sep 18, 2018
The Heart Behind Christian Films (Part 2 of 2)
Sep 11, 2018
The Humble Christian Film: Economics and History of an Art Form (Part 1 of 2)
Sep 04, 2018
Healing the Southern Baptist Convention
Jun 08, 2018
Scott Pruitt, Christianity, and NPR's Embedded
Jun 04, 2018
Girolamo Savonarola: One Man Against the Renaissance
Mar 26, 2018
Church Discipline
Mar 26, 2018
Plantation Jesus
Mar 26, 2018
The Curse of Ham and the Southern Baptist Convention
Mar 26, 2018
Stephen Mansfield: Choosing Donald Trump
Mar 26, 2018
Evangelical Christians and Donald Trump: An Unlikely Love Affair
Mar 26, 2018
Season One Trailer
Mar 19, 2018