Church History for Chumps
We're not your grandfather's church history podcast. But we'd also really appreciate it if he still listened.
Saints, heretics, councils...and the occasional crazy stuff. We have fun.
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Church History for Chumps
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154. The Crusade Against Christians: The Sack of Constantinople
Ever since the Venetians got involved, we knew the crusaders were in trouble.(Apologies to any listeners from Venice) Led by the grizzled military veteran Doge Dandalo, the crusaders were forcibly detoured by the exploits of ...
153. How the Fourth Crusade Went Broke Before It Started
Pope Innocent III wasn't out to have history repeat itself. He was determined for his crusade to be a spiritual endeavor backed by pious Christians as they retook the Holy Land from the Ayyubids. Unfortunately, the Fourth Crusade ra...
152. Pope Innocent III & The Dawn of the Fourth Crusade
The Third Crusade was over. Saladin and Richard the Lionheart had perished. The Crusader States sat with a reinforced coastline but without its prize jewel: the city of Jerusalem itself.The year is 1198. A new figurehead ascends to leade...
151. Where Did Oneness Pentecostalism Come From?
American Christianity has a knack for being...interesting. The 19th Century spawned a number of new denominations, each with their own different takes on the classical traditions that their fathers and grandfathers immigrated to Ame...
150. The History of Christian Missions: Two Thousand Years in Sixty Minutes!
There are few passages of Scripture more influential than the Great Commission. The words of Jesus to His followers, calling them to go out into the world and make disciples, have rung out for two thousand years.And the Church's answer t...
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