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
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...
"Can a Woman Preach?": Rethinking Gender in Evangelical History (Episode 9)
When we tell the story of evangelicalism, we usually reach for famous pastors, theologians, and institutions. But what happens when we turn our attention to the women who taught, organized, wrote, fundraised, evangelized, and sustained evangeli...
More Complicated Than the Scopes Trial: A History of Evangelicals and Science (Episode 8)
When most people imagine evangelical Christianity and science in America, they picture conflict: the Scopes Trial, school-board fights over evolution, faith retreating before modern science. But that picture is largely a product of the twentiet...
Fan Mail
I just wanted to say that I have thoroughly enjoyed all 12 episodes of your podcast. I’m a Canadian but so much of what you say, particularly about the confused state of evangelical politics, also applies north of the border among those who fail to distinguish between the church and the state, whether it be Canada, the US, or anywhere else on planet earth! Looking forward to season two! Thanks again and God bless.
Toronto, ON