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This episode was created by the SLBF STUDIO at Upper House.
Produced by Daniel Johnson and Dave Conour
Edited by Dave Conour
Hi, this is Dave from the SLBF Studio and the producer of the Upwords Podcast. We just wanted to take a quick second to say thank you for downloading and listening to our podcast every week. And as a loyal listener, we wanted to introduce you to the next podcast in the SLBF Studio family called American Evangelicals, a history podcast. Enjoy. They shaped elections, they built institutions, they argued, split, reunited, and argued again. They are American evangelicals, and their story is far more complex than the headlines suggest. Hi, I'm Dan Hummel.
SPEAKER_02I'm the director of the Lumen Center. I'm a historian of evangelicals and foreign policy and theology and related topics.
SPEAKER_03I'm John Fia, I'm a fellow here at the Lumen Center. I have written about American evangelicalism in three centuries over the course of six books, 18th, 19th, and 20th.
SPEAKER_01I'm Maggie Capra. I'm a teacher, researcher, and I consider myself a forever student of American evangelicalism.
SPEAKER_00What exactly is an American evangelical? Where did the movement come from? And how did it become one of the most powerful forces in American life? Each episode, three historians dig into those questions, not through sweeping generalizations, but through the stories of real people whose lives illuminate the larger movement.
SPEAKER_02So it's really important what's happening in economic history and cultural history to understand why fundamentalists sort of reacted the way they did and why they formed.
SPEAKER_03Your evidence that you're uncovering suggests that in a largely 19th-century patriarchal society, generally, not just even Christianity, but generally, evangelicals are actually kind of progressive on gender issues.
SPEAKER_01Ask any historian, was it true in other contexts? And we have stories about all people being racist in different time periods. It's not that we're necessarily picking on evangelicals. However, there is something that allows us to hold evangelicals to a higher standard, and that is their claim that their highest priority is the Bible.
SPEAKER_00From the revivals of the 18th century to the fundamentalist battles of the 20th century, from questions of doctrine and definition to the harder questions of race, gender, and power, this is the history that shaped a movement and a nation. American Evangelicals, a history podcast.