Truce - History of the Christian Church
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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,...
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Republicans and Evangelicals | Where the Gang Ended Up part 2
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Jimmy Swaggart was caught in a major controversy in the late 1980s. It involved the famous American televan...
Republicans and Evangelicals | Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker/ What Happened to the Gang (part 1)
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Pat Robertson’s bid for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination (often discussed in 1989 contexts beca...
Should I Move to Europe?
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Several months ago, Chris informed the audience that he was thinking about moving to Europe. Now, he's back to update...
Republicans and Evangelicals | The Iran Contra Affair
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The Iran-Contra Affair was a major political scandal in the United States during the second...
Republicans and Evangelicals | What Did Evangelicals Get from Reagan?
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A bunch of evangelicals like Tim LaHaye, Pat Robertson, and Jerry Falwell pushed many in the ev...
Republicans and Evangelics | Reaganomics
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Ronald Reagan’s economic policies, often referred to as “Reaganomics,” were based on supply-s...
Republicans and Evangelicals | Ronald Reagan's Star Wars
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The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), announced by President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 198...
Republicans and Evangelicals I Reagan's Shibboleths
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Ronald Reagan was an odd choice for evangelicals. For one, he and his wife regularly consulted a medium...
Republicans and Evangelicals | Ronald Reagan's Double Cross
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Before he became president, Reagan was the head of the Screen Actors' Guild. When it came down to backing h...
Republicans and Evangelicals | Why Christians Didn't Vote for Carter
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Boy, the Religious Right did not like Carter, at least by 1980. Some of them, like Pat Robertson, had high...
Republicans and Evangelicals | The Many Plagues of Jimmy Carter
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President Jimmy Carter's presidency (1977–1981) faced several major challenges, both domestically and inter...
Republicans and Evangelicals | The Council for National Policy: Dark Money in the Church
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Dark money is a problem in American politics and religion. What is it? Untraceable money that often comes f...
Republicans and Evangelicals | The Battle for the Mind
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Tim LaHaye wrote different kinds of books. Books on marriage, sexuality, the end times, and those involved...
Republicans and Evangelicals | What Scared Tim LaHaye
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Tim and Beverly LaHaye were a prominent American evangelical Christian couple known for their...
Republicans and Evangelicals | Pat Robertson and the Prosperity Gospel
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Christians were involved with many forms of media from their inception. They were there at the dawn of ra...
An American Coup in Guatemala
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Given the recent events in Venezuela, I have decided to run a classic episode from season 3....
Republicans and Evangelicals: Bill Bright, Campus Crusade, and Cru
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William R. “Bill” Bright was born in 1921 in Coweta, Oklahoma. Though raised in a...
Republicans and Evangelicals I Jerry Falwell (part 2)
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The New Right had a plan--to bring evangelical Christians together as a voting bloc. But how to do tha...
Republicans and Evangelicals I Jerry Falwell (part 1)
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Jerry Falwell was a prominent American pastor, televangelist, and conservative political activist whose lif...
Republicans and Evangelicals: Abortion
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A lot of evangelicals are now single-issue voters, and that issue is abortion. But that was not...
Republicans and Evangelicals: The Death Penalty
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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the United States went years without using the...
Republicans and Evangelicals | Bob Jones University v. The United States
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Bob Jones University v. United States (1983) was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ca...
A Personal Message and Exciting News!
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Do you love Truce? I love making Truce! Together, we can continue this important show. Would...
Republicans and Evangelicals | George Wallace
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George Wallace was, as historian Dan Carter put it, "the most influential loser in American his...
Republicans and Evangelicals I Boston Against Busing
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We talk about racism in the United States like it only happens in the South. But the nasty truth is that the North...
Republicans and Evangelicals I Segregation Academies (part 2)
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In 2 Samuel 24 David is told that he must buy a certain piece of land in an act of repentance for his...
Republicans and Evangelicals I Segregation Academies (part 1)
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Update: I would like to apologize for an error I made in the original version of this story. I stated...
Scopes Monkey Trial - 100 Year Anniversay
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I made these episodes a few years ago, but since it is the 100th anniversary of the Scopes "Monk...
Republicans and Evangelicals I The Late Great Planet Earth
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Hal Lindsey published The Late Great Planet Earth in 1970. It was a HUGE hit, selling over 35 million...
The Camino del Norte part 2
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In the last episode, Chris and his brother Nick starte...
The Camino del Norte part 1
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On this bonus episode, Chris takes you along with him as he hiked 250 miles on an old C...
Republicans and Evangelicals I Boardroom Jacobins
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In November of 1965, a young lawyer published a book called Unsafe at Any Speed about t...
Republicans and Evangelicals I The Failure of Supply-Side Economics
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Gerald Ford's administration was in trouble. The country was experiencing stagflation, where prices were go...
Republicans and Evangelicals I The New Right
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A small group of men calling themselves The New Right had a major role to play in bonding some evangeli...
Bonus: Compelled: A New Song
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The Compelled podcast is hosted by my friend Paul Hastings. It's a testimony show that walks lis...
Republicans and Evangelicals I Milton Friedman and School Choice (part 2 of 2)
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Milton Friedman is one of the most important economists of the last hundred years. His ideas were quot...
Republicans and Evangelicals I Milton Friedman vs. John Maynard Keynes (1 of 2)
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Milton Friedman may be the most famous American economist. His research and theories have profoundly shaped...
Republicans and Evangelicals I William F. Buckley v. Ayn Rand and the John Birch Society
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William F. Buckley Jr. helped change the face of conservatism in the US because he gave it intellectual backing. B...
Republicans and Evangelicals I William F. Buckley Jr. and National Review
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Senator Robert Taft couldn't get the nomination. He tried to be the GOP's nominee for president t...
Republicans and Evangelicals I Barry Goldwater – How Republicans Welcomed Extremism - Part Two
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In the first part of our series, Chris explored the beginning of Barry Goldwater's career, from his early days...