American Evangelicals - A History Podcast
American Evangelicals blends storytelling and free-flowing conversation to explore the varieties, similarities, and significance of evangelical Christians in American history.
Spanning the religious revivals of the 18th century to the cultural and political conflicts of the 21st, each episode is a conversation based on the historical research of its hosts, the deep scholarship on American evangelicals, and the lives of real figures who shaped the movement.
Hosted by three historians of American evangelicalism, discover how evangelicals have shaped and been shaped by the challenges of not just theology and belief, but by the same forces that have contributed to American society, from immigration to war, race, and economics.
American Evangelicals - A History Podcast
Latest Episodes
BONUS: Cory Marsh & Vincent Bacote on Defining Evangelicalism
This special bonus episode closes out Season One of American Evangelicals: A History Podcast by sharing the complete, unedited interviews behind Episode 4, “What Is an Evangelical?” Only excerpts of these conversations made it into the original...
BONUS: Evangelicals, Science, & Ted Davis
Episode 8 of American Evangelicals only had room for excerpts of our conversation with historian of science Ted Davis. This bonus episode gives you the entire, unedited interview. Davis, a leading historian of science and religion, traces the r...
Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Evangelicalism, History, and What Comes Next (Episode 12)
In the finale of Season One, John Fea, Dan Hummel, and Maggie Capra step out of their usual narrative format to reflect directly on the series and on the state of the field they study. They open by sharing what listener feedback has taught them...
Accidental Diplomats: Missionaries, Money, and the World (Episode 11)
It's easy to imagine American evangelicalism as a story that happens entirely inside the United States. In this episode, John Fea, Dan Hummel, and Maggie Capra push past that bubble to explore evangelicals' long, tangled relationship with the r...
The Bible: A People of the Book (Episode 10)
For many evangelicals, no object is more central to faith and practice than the Bible—preached, memorized, carried, gifted, and treated as the ultimate authority. But how did it come to occupy that place, and what happens when readers of the sa...
Fan Mail
Excuse me. I just finished listening to the last episode, and I can't tell you how how delighted I I've been to learn so much from the three of you and your two recent guests. Uh further comments, the Bebington quadrilateral. You know, it's almost obnoxious that term. And if not obnoxious, it sounds like the title of a Star Trek episode. I would suggest Bebington's four-point definition, but whatever. The other thing is, uh, on the side, but I think uh an important comment is that uh AI has done a poor job with your uh transcripts, and there's a million examples of that. The worst, however, is that uh uh it was Corey is quoted as is is is is is to have said, we need to kill Christian celebrities. In fact, he said celebritism or whatever, but we need to kill Christian celebrities. Oops.