Dr. Eric Bryant interviews Simon Benham, the senior pastor of Kerith Community Church, a multisite church in Southeast England. Simon is also the author of The Peach and the Coconut: Re-creating the Community of Jesus In this episode, Simon shares about ministry effectiveness in his post-Christian context of the United Kingdom, bringing the message…

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As the author of a graphic history, I loved chatting with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Paul Peart-Smith about the graphic interpretation of An Indigenous People’s History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2024). An Indigenous Peoples' History of The United States originally came out in 2014 with Beacon Press. In 2019 it was adapted into a Young Peopl…

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Dr. Eric Bryant interviews Dave Gibbons. Dave serves as pastor of New Song Church in Orange County, CA and an advisor in the corporate world. He is the author of Xealots: Defying the Gravity of Normality, The Monkey and the Fish: Liquid Leadership for a Third-Culture Church, and his newest one which is his memoir The Shape of My Eyes: A Memoir of R…

Welcome to THE FIGHT IS RIGHT, the AWARD WINNING podcast hosted by Tunde Ajayi, trainer of Anthony Yarde and Spencer ‘The Knowledge’ Fearon, Boxing historian. Watched by thousands every week, expect boxing, old school stories and good vibes. Tune in every Sunday, 8pm for everything in the world of boxing, as well as live fight punditry for the bigg…

One of my talking points when hanging out with my fellow diplomatic historians is the painful absence of scholarship on Hawaii. Too many political histories treat Hawaii’s statehood as a kind of historical inevitability, an event that was bound to pass the moment the kingdom was annexed. As I would frequently pontificate, “nobody has unpacked the i…

In Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia(New York University Press, 2019), Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Silver Professor of History Emerita at New York University, shifts the lens on the well-known narrative of Virginia’s founding to reveal the previously untold and utterly compelling story of the youths who, often u…

During the mid-seventeenth century, Anglo-American Protestants described Native American ceremonies as savage devilry, Islamic teaching as violent chicanery, and Catholicism as repugnant superstition. By the mid-eighteenth century, they would describe amicable debates between evangelical missionaries and Algonquian religious leaders about the moral…

The Japanese invasion of the Aleutian Islands during World War II changed Alaska, serving as justification for a large American military presence across the peninsula and advancing colonialism into the territory in the years before statehood. In Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II (U Washington Press, 2024), University of New Mexico …

In perhaps the final episode of ’The Ringer MMA Show,’ Petesy Carroll, Chuck Mindenhall, and Troy Farkas give you exactly what you want in a special Sunday UFC Apex reaction edition of the program. Today, the guys begin by discussing Caio Borralho’s gritty win over the stalwart Jared Cannonier and Borralho’s callout of Israel Adesanya. Then, they g…

In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100,000 Native American people from rural to urban areas. At the time the program ended, many groups--from government leaders to Red Power activists--had already classified it as a failure, and scholars h…

Last week, Salt Lake City was awarded another fantastic UFC card. And on today’s episode, the trio of Petesy Carroll, Chuck Mindenhall, and Troy Farkas debate whether the UFC 307 main event between Alex Pereira and Khalil Rountree is “terrible” for the sport, as Jamahal Hill thinks it is. They discuss whether Rountree is deserving of the moment, wh…

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When General Porfirio Díaz assumed power in 1876, he ushered in Mexico's first prolonged period of political stability and national economic growth--though "progress" came at the cost of democracy. Indigenous Autocracy presents a new story about how regional actors negotiated between national authoritarian rule and local circumstances by explaining…

Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history video games since The Oregon Trail. Beloved by millions, they’ve been widely acclaimed for their realism and attention to detail. But how do they fare as re-creations of history? In Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's…

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During Hawai‘i’s territorial period (1900–1959), Native Hawaiians resisted assimilation by refusing to replace Native culture, identity, and history with those of the United States. By actively participating in U.S. public schools, Hawaiians resisted the suppression of their language and culture, subjection to a foreign curriculum, and denial of th…

The names of Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse are often readily recognized among many Americans. Yet the longer, dynamic history of the Lakota - a history from which these three famous figures were created - remains largely untold. In Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (Yale, 2019), historian Pekka Hämäläinen, author of The C…

America’s waterways were once the superhighways of travel and communication. Coursing through a central line across the landscape, with tributaries connecting the South to the Great Plains and the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River meant wealth, knowledge, and power for those who could master it. In Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and …

In Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962 (Cornell University Press, 2023), Dr. Alfred Peredo Flores argues that the US occupation of the island of Guåhan (Guam), one of the most heavily militarised islands in the western Pacific Ocean, was enabled by a process of settler militarism. During World War II and th…

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Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, teachers, administrators, and policymakers fashioned a system of industrial education that attempted to transform Black and Indigenous peoples and land. This form of teaching—what Bayley J. Marquez names plantation pedagogy—was built on the claim that slavery and land dispossession are fundamentall…

Between the mid-19th century and the start of the twentieth century, the Northern Paiute people of the Great Basin went from a self-sufficient tribe well-adapted to living on the harsh desert homelands, to a people singled out by the Native activist Henry Roe Cloud for their dire social and economic position. The story of how this happened is told …

Drawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Peru, Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America (University of Virginia, 2023) shows the importance of textual, religious, and bureaucratic ties to struggles over colonial governance and identities. Dr.…

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In this sweeping new history, esteemed University of North Carolina historian Kathleen DuVal makes the case for the ongoing, ancient, and dynamic history of Native nationhood as a critical component of global history. In Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (Random House, 2024), DuVal covers a thousand years of continental history, buildin…

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Scholars working in archaeology, education, history, geography, and politics tell a nuanced story about the people and dynamics that reshaped this region and determined who would control it. The Ohio Valley possesses some of the most resource-rich terrain in the world. Its settlement by humans was thus consequential not only for shaping the geograp…

Johnny Nelson joins Spencer Fearon on this week's The Fight is Right, talking the upcoming Chris Billam-Smith and Richard Riakporhe rematch that promises fireworks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Tunde Ajayi and Spencer Fearon

In this episode, Dr. Eric Bryant interviewed my friend and former Gatewayer Latasha Morrison, founder of Be the Bridge which exists to "empower people and culture toward racial healing, equity and reconciliation." She is the author of Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation and her new book Brown Faces, White Spaces: Confronti…

In this episode, I interview Daniel Im, lead pastor of Beulah Alliance Church in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and author of The Discipleship Opportunity: Leading a Great-Commission Church in a Post-Everything World. Daniel has served at churches in Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal, Korea, Edmonton, and Nashville. We discussed ministry in Canada along with …

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In this episode, Dr. Eric Bryant interviews Dr. Efrem Smith, a church planter, co-lead pastor of Midtown Church which describes itself as "a multiethnic, multiplying, reconciling, and disciple-making church." Efrem consults on issues of multi-ethnicity, leadership, and community development. He is the former president and CEO of World Impact, an ur…

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Edited by Benjamin Bryce and David Sheinin, Race and Transnationalism in the Americas (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), highlights the importance of transnational forces in shaping the concept of race and understanding of national belonging across the Americas, from the late nineteenth century to the present times. The book also examines how …

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In this episode, Dr. Eric Bryant interviews Des Wadsworth, pastor of Grace Community Church in Tempe, AZ. A native of the United Kingdom, Des served as lead pastor at Longton Community Church in England. We discuss the remarkable growth of Grace since the pandemic along with rebuilding and renewal in a post-Christian context. THE POST-CHRISTIAN POD…

In this episode, Dr. Eric Bryant interviews Chad Lunsford, the author of Made for More: Reach Your Highest Purpose & Live Your Greatest Story. Chad serves as a pastor at Traders Point Christian Church in Indianapolis as well as an adjunct professor at Southeastern University. He founded Made For More, a non-profit organization that helps individual…

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Dr. Eric Bryant interviews Carlos Ortiz, Jr., the senior pastor at Gateway Church in Austin. Carlos has served at Hope Fellowship in the Dallas area, Timberlake Church in the Seattle area, and with Craig Groeschel at Life Church. We discussed navigating our divisive world, succession, and ministry post-pandemic. THE POST-CHRISTIAN PODCAST AND GIVEA…

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