Best Unc Church Podcasts (2024)

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S01 E09: Autism, Race, Eugenics, and Neurodiversity: How Are All These Connected? 58:54

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What do Christians think when they hear the word autism? ? Why is it important to understand the real origins of race, eugenics, and Focus on the Family in relation to understanding how the church sees ASD, bipolar, and other mental health conditions like dyspraxia ? How does Andrew Wakefield and Donald Trump's ideas surrounding autism show how imp…

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Experiencing Jesus

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Experiencing Jesus -- Acts 1:3-8 Jesus made eight appearances to his followers in-between his resurrection and ascension. But how does Jesus appear to us today? Join us this week as we discuss Jesus' promise of the Holy Spirit for all believers. Sunday: https://lovechapelhill.com/sundayConnect: https://lovechapelhill.com/about-us/connect-cardGive: …

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A Quick Brief Before the Last Two Episodes of Season 1 7:52

6d ago7:52

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Just a quick brief regarding the future of the podcast and an apology regarding an episode that was released in early March. Note that we will be taking a break from posting on Meta-based platforms until further notice.By Liminal Nerd Media

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Gone Fishin'

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Resurrected -- John 21:1-10After Jesus' resurrection, the Disciples return to what they know best - fishing - but they find themselves with nothing to show until Jesus appears to them on the shore and tells them to cast their nets to the other side. Once their net is full, Jesus invites them to share breakfast together, and invites them into this n…

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Doubting Thomas

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Doubting Thomas -- John 20:24-29 What happens after Easter? This week, we start a new series, "Resurrection." When, like Thomas, do we doubt? And how does Jesus attend to our doubts, even today?Sunday: https://lovechapelhill.com/sundayConnect: https://lovechapelhill.com/about-us/connect-cardGive: https://lovechapelhill.com/give…

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Joseph M. Thompson, "Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism" (UNC Press, 2024) 1:06:57

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Country music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history reveals how country music's Nashville-based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences on military service while selling the music to service members. Begi…

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Greg Jarrell, "Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods" (Fortress Press, 2024) 49:08

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Greg Jarrell's book Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods (Fortress Press, 2024) uncovers how race, geography, policy, and religion have created haunted landscapes in Charlotte, North Carolina, and throughout the United States. How do we value our lands, livelihoods, and communities? How does our theology inform ou…

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He is Risen Indeed

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Resurrection Sunday -- Mark 16Today is the day of the Lord's Favor, a time of Jubilee as Jesus has conquered the grave. Happy Easter, He is Risen, He is Risen Indeed.By Justin Simmons

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Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, "Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023) 1:21:27

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In Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America (UNC Press, 2023), Elizabeth Engelhardt argues that modern American food, business, caretaking, politics, sex, travel, writing, and restaurants all owe a debt to boardinghouse women in the South. From the eighteenth century well into the twentiet…

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S01 E08: Beastered: How Christians Eventually Embraced Theatre 22:01

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How did Plato influence churches to panic over the theatrical arts? And what made the church eventually relent and start supporting the art of play acting which lead to the viral internet sensations of Winnipeg Church of the Rock plays? To view all of these plays online for a good laugh, watch them on archive.org or if you're around Winnipeg, you'v…

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Jesus Defies Our Expectations

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Palm Sunday -- Mark 11:1-11 Ahead of Easter week, we explore what the disciples' expectations of Jesus can teach us about our own. Where and how is Jesus still defying our expectations today? Sunday: https://lovechapelhill.com/sundayConnect: https://lovechapelhill.com/about-us/connect-cardGive: https://lovechapelhill.com/give…

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Max Fraser, "Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class" (Princeton UP, 2023) 1:14:14

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Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. The “hillbilly highway” was one of the largest internal relocations of poor and working people in American history,…

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The Cost to Follow Christ

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Reimagine Discipleship --- Mark 10:17-31A rich young man comes to Jesus to ask how he might inherit "eternal life", or "life unto the ages". When Jesus responds he must give up all his wealth, the young man leaves sad. What are you giving up to seek after Jesus?By Joel Philbrook

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Jonathan W. White, "Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) 39:49

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In Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century,…

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Whitney Nell Stewart, "This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations" (UNC Press, 2023) 1:30:50

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The cultural memory of plantations in the Old South has long been clouded by myth. A recent reckoning with the centrality of slavery to the US national story, however, has shifted the meaning of these sites. Plantations are no longer simply seen as places of beauty and grandiose hospitality; their reality as spaces of enslavement, exploitation, and…

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Thomas Mareite, "Conditional Freedom: Free Soil and Fugitive Slaves from the U.S. South to Mexico's Northeast, 1803-1861" (Brill, 2024) 59:51

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While the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom: Free Soil and Fugitive Slaves from the U.S. South to Mexico's Northeast, 1803-1861 (Brill, 2024) provides new insights on the social and political geography of freedom and slave…

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S01 E07: Consume and Consume Some More (Until the End)) 32:44

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Note: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS A TON OF SWEARING IN THE LATER HALF How did the early Christian thought and fundamentalism cause Christians to still consume just like everyone else? Does eschatology also encourage Christians to try living the high life? Does anyone subconsciously want Jesus to come back while they're still alive? Join the host as he sh…

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Childlike Faith

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Reimagine Discipleship --- Mark 10:13-16Jesus continues to teach the disciples about the "upside-down" nature of the kingdom of God. Not only does God accept the little children, Jesus tells them, but God's kingdom actually belongs to them. What does such a statement mean for us today? Sunday: https://lovechapelhill.com/sundayConnect: https://lovec…

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Sean M. Kelley, "American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865" (Yale UP, 2023) 1:05:29

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A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and mariners sailed to Africa and to the Caribbean to acquire and sell captives. Using exhaustive archival research, including many collections that have never been used before, historian Sean M. Kelley argues…

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Ilyon Woo, "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" (Simon and Schuster, 2023) 52:43

2M ago52:43

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Ilyon Woo's Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom (Simon and Schuster, 2023) tells the remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as “his” slave. In 1848, a year of international…

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Edda Fields-Black, "Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War" (Oxford UP, 2023) 1:35:41

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Most Americans know of Harriet Tubman's legendary life: escaping enslavement in 1849, she led more than 60 others out of bondage via the Underground Railroad, gave instructions on getting to freedom to scores more, and went on to live a lifetime fighting for change. Yet the many biographies, children's books, and films about Tubman omit a crucial c…

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The V Pattern

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Reimagine Discipleship --- Mark 9:33-41After Jesus returns from The Transfiguration, the disciples argue over which of them is the greatest, but Jesus tells them that to become the greatest, you must become the least.By Justin Simmons

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Kristine M. McCusker, "Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent: Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-1955" (U Illinois Press, 2023) 55:55

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Kristine M. McCusker's book Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent: Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-1955 (U Illinois Press, 2023) takes, as its focus, the combined history of death and health in the American South between 1900 and 1955. The text is ambitious in scope, and weaves together multiple oral histories to …

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Heaven and Earth Overlapped

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Reimagine: Discipleship --- Mark 9:1-13 The Transfiguration of Jesus was clearly an overwhelming experience. Blinding brightness, the return of the most important figures in Israel's history, an indescribable new form for Jesus. Heaven and Earth came together for a brief moment. But it represented something beautiful and lasting. Jesus would contin…

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Neema Avashia, "Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place" (West Virginia UP, 2022) 48:44

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Neema Avashia is the daughter of Indian immigrants and was born and raised in southern West Virginia. She has been an educator and activist in the Boston Public Schools since 2003 and was named a City of Boston Educator of the Year in 2013. Her first book, Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place, was published by West Vir…

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Matthew Fox-Amato, "Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America" (Oxford UP, 2019) 53:12

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Shortly after its introduction, photography transformed the ways Americans made political arguments using visual images. In the mid-19th century, photographs became key tools in debates surrounding slavery. Yet, photographs were used in interesting and sometimes surprising ways by a range of actors. Matthew Fox-Amato, an Assistant Professor at the …

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Gregory D. Smithers, "Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal" (U Oklahoma Press, 2019) 1:07:28

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In his book, Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal(University of Oklahoma Press, 2019), Dr. Gregory D. Smithers effectively articulates the complex history of Native Southerners. Smithers conveys the history of Native Southerners through numerous historical eras while properly reinterpreting popular misconceptions about the…

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S01 - Bonus Episode 2: Time Machines 17:40

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Listeners of the Spirituality Podcast share what they could do to undo their religious trauma and time in the church if they had a time machine. Sorry for the bad recording. Recording studios where recordings take place were unavailable at the time.By Liminal Nerd Media

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Perseverance

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Reimagine: Discipleship --- Mark 8:31-9:1 Discipleship isn't easy. We 21st century Americans may not be experiencing the persecution Mark's audience was, but the call to endure for the sake of Christ's salvation is still as loud today as it was then. Even Jesus needed reminding that what was less than suffering and death was a temptation for an eas…

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Norman Hill and Velma Murphy Hill, "Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain: The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism" (Regalo Press, 2023) 1:05:54

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The remarkable story of a couple who came together during the civil rights movement and made fighting for equality and civil and workers' rights their purpose for more than sixty years, overcoming adversity--with the strength of their love and commitment--to bring about meaningful change, When Velma Murphy was knocked unconscious by a brick thrown …

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Jeanne Theoharis, "The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South" (NYU Press, 2019) 44:01

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In this New Books Network/Gotham Center for NYC History podcast, guest host Beth Harpaz, editor of the City University of New York website SUM, interviews Jeanne Theoharis, distinguished professor of political science at Brooklyn College. Their topic is a new book just out from NYU Press, co-edited by Theoharis, called The Strange Careers of the Ji…

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S01 - Bonus Episode 1: Untestimony 25:29

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Who is the host of the Spirituality Podcast and how did he get to where he is today?By Liminal Nerd Media

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The Dust From His Sandals

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Reimagine: Discipleship --- Mark 6:7-13 We're remaining in Mark, but our Reimagine series is moving from New Beginnings to the natural next step in the Way: Discipleship. It's one thing to accept the truth of Jesus and quite another to walk so close behind him that you're covered in the dust of each of his steps. It's easy to be a Christian in name…

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Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer, "Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023) 1:14:34

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A controversial character largely known (as depicted in the movie Glory) as a Union colonel who led Black soldiers in the Civil War, James Montgomery (1814-71) waged a far more personal and radical war against slavery than popular history suggests. It is the true story of this militant abolitionist that Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer tell in Ab…

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S01 Announcement: Looking for a New Home 10:00

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Spirituality Challenged podcast host Aaron Parsons brings our dear listeners some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we're not going into pod-fade just yet!By Liminal Nerd Media

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Your Story Matters

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Reimagine: New Beginnings --- Mark 5:1-20 A demon-possessed man. A community that didn't know what to do with him. While the confrontation here may not be the same as a contemporary mental illness, the conflict and suffering would be familiar to any who have experienced it. As we close this New Beginnings series with a fiercely intimate account of …

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Elizabeth Varon, "Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South" (Simon & Schuster, 2023) 28:43

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An authoritative biography of the controversial Confederate general, who later embraced Reconstruction and became an outcast in the South. It was the most remarkable political about-face in American history. During the Civil War, General James Longstreet fought tenaciously for the Confederacy. He was alongside Lee at Gettysburg (and counseled him n…

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S01 E06: Something Completely Different: The Lack of "Unce" of the Christian Techno Scene 25:01

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Christian techno music exists? How long did it last compared to bands like Skillet or Christian rappers like Lecrae? And more importantly, how does Wendy Carlos' invention of the first synth and Vancouver's Public Disco give us a glimpse as to why is there never or barely was a Christian rave / EDM scene? Further Reading: Wendy Carlos: The brillian…

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Good Soil

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Reimagine: New Beginnings --- Mark 4:1-20, 26-32 This early and familiar parable of Jesus offers quite the challenge. We may be tempted to find ourselves in the good soil here. But Jesus reminds us that the best harvests come from when the sower's few seeds multiply into many times what they were when they fell? Has scripture always borne that kind…

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Ethel Morgan Smith, "Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement" (UP of Mississippi, 2023) 31:35

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The civil rights movement is often defined narrowly, relegated to the 1950s and 1960s, and populated by such colossal figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Many forget that the movement was bigger than the figures on the frontline and that it grew from intellectual and historical efforts that continue today. In Path to Grace: Reimaginin…

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S01 E05: Hustle Culture 4 Jesus: The History of MLMs, Amway, and How They Ended Up in Church 48:34

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Is it godly to participate in multi-level marketing? Why is belief the very core element of keeping MLMs alive? How was Dutch Calvinism involved in shaping the MLM industry since the 1980s? Are MLMs directly connected to extreme Christian fringe ideas? And what are the long term real world consequences of dabbling in the world of hustle culture wit…

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Reflections

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Reimagine: New Beginnings --- Mark 1:14-20,3:13-19 We continue in the book of Mark as Jesus gathers his disciples. Imagine being these men. You're told that the promises of generations were coming to pass, that the world you existed in was a distorted reflection of what it should be and salvation was coming. Would you then drop your livelihood with…

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Joseph C. Russo, "Hard Luck and Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas" (Duke UP, 2022) 34:14

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In Hard Luck and Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas (Duke UP, 2022) (Duke UP, 2023), Joseph C. Russo takes readers into the everyday lives of the rural residents of Southeast Texas. He encounters the region as a kind of world enveloped in on itself, existing under a pall of poverty, illness, and oil refinery smoke. His informants…

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Bradley R. Clampitt, "Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity" (LSU Press, 2022) 1:06:11

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Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity (LSU Press, 2022) by Dr. Bradley R. Clampitt is a groundbreaking analysis of Confederate demobilisation. The book examines the state of mind of Confederate soldiers in the immediate aftermath of war. Having survived severe psychological as well as physical trauma, they now f…

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Scott Gac, "Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 39:01

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Scott Gac's Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America (Cambridge UP, 2023) investigates one of history's most violent undertakings: The United States of America. People the world over consider violence in the United States as measurably different than that which troubles the rest of the globe, citing reasons including gun culture, the Ameri…

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Aimee Loiselle, "Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class" (UNC Press, 2023) 55:45

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In the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the published biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white southern textile worker, and transformed it into a blockbuster 1979 film, Norma Rae, featuring Sally Field in the title role. This fascinating book reveals how the film and the popular icon it created each worked to efface the labor history that forme…

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S01 E04: The Secret of the Word of Faith Movement (Or is it secret at all?) 1:00:55

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What are the connections between the prosperity gospel and "The Secret"? Why are the ideas of exceptionalism, health, and wealth behind a Winnipeg mega-church considered cult-ish by people outside the church? Are these ideas any different compared to the ideas of Eckhart Tolle, Steven Covey, or Tony Robbins? While basic answers aren't difficult to …

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The Heavens Opened

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Reimagine: New Beginnings --- Mark 1:9-13 Jesus opens his ministry in a dynamic and beautiful display of power and identity. All elements of the Trinity come together to kick off three years that would change the rest of history. The baptism of Jesus also harkens back to our fall and foreshadows the redemption that is about to take place. The peopl…

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Kami Fletcher and Ashley Towle, "Grave History: Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries" (U Georgia Press, 2023) 46:23

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Kami Fletcher and Ashley Towle’s edited collection Grave History: Death, Race and Gender in Southern Cemeteries (University of Georgia Press, 2023), demonstrates how Jim Crow laws extended into the realms of the dead. Cemeteries throughout the Southern states either relegated Black funerals to the margins in existing cemeteries or excluded the comm…

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Reimagine: New Beginnings

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Reimagine: New Beginnings --- Mark 1:1-8 Happy 2024, Love Chapel Hill! The turning of the year makes us all feel a call to start something new... to varying degrees of success. (Usually low). And this year, like so many recently it seems, we know that so much of what is needs to be renewed. When Jesus's ministry is heralded by his eccentric cousin,…

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