Evangelization & Culture Podcast
Tod Worner discusses the culture, faith, literature, philosophy, history, and more in stimulating conversations with renown intellectuals of our time on the Evangelization & Culture Podcast.
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'53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy' w/ Tim Ryback (opens the original)
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In America, it is not uncommon to ask what a president achieved in his "First 100 Days." If we asked the same of Adolf Hitler after being appointed Chancellor of Germany, we would learn that he suppressed political parties, suspended civil liberties, purged the civil service, imprisoned political enemies, terrorized the Jews, erected the first concentration camp, and achieved dictatorial power over the state. And that was just in the first 53 days. Join scholar Timothy Ryback and me as we explor
The Wisdom of Michael Oakeshott w/ Elizabeth Corey (opens the original)
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If philosophy is about the search for truth, what happens when the tool we use in the search — our very mind — is littered with abstractions, deformed by biases, and dismissive of experience? We will hardly arrive at the truth. In exploring our modes of experiences and the ways we think, philosopher Michael Oakeshott uncovered the popular mistakes and ideological misunderstandings that cloud instead of clarify, mislead instead of enlighten. Join Baylor University Professor Elizabeth Corey and me
The Genius of Donald Kagan w/ Paul Rahe (opens the original)
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How did a poor immigrant boy from Brooklyn rise to become Yale's Sterling Professor of Classics and History, achieve fame as the world's greatest scholar on Thucydides, and find himself compared to none other than Herodotus? Even more, how did he cultivate the wisdom of a mentor, the devotion of a father, and the kindness of a friend? Join Hillsdale Professor Paul Rahe and me as we explore the incredible journey and unlikely genius of Donald Kagan on The Evangelization & Culture Podcast . Stay u
'Christian Persecution Today' w/ Bishop Robert Barron (opens the original)
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Soviet tyrant Joseph Stalin purportedly quipped, "One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." Why has the twentieth century seen more Christians martyred than all previous centuries combined? And why are we curiously unaware of or numb to it? Join Bishop Robert Barron and me as we discuss his troubling yet important new book, What Do Their Deaths Demand? Christian Persecution Today on The Evangelization & Culture Podcast . Stay up-to-date with the latest episodes of The Evangelizat
'American Odyssey' w/ Patrick Deneen (opens the original)
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How and why has a nearly three-thousand-year-old story about a man trying to find his way home electrified the twenty-first-century world? And in revisiting this story, what lessons can we learn about the wonder and vexation of the human condition? Join Dr. Patrick J. Deneen of the University of Notre Dame and me as we explore American Odyssey: What an Ancient Story Reveals about Our Divided Souls , his new book tackling Homer's old one, on The Evangelization & Culture Podcast . Stay up-to-date
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