Best Daniel Silliman Podcasts (2024)

The beloved Little Housebooks by Laura Ingalls Wilder have sold over 60 million copies since their publication in the first half of the twentieth century. Even her unpolished memoir, Pioneer Girl, which tells the true story behind the children’s books, was widely embraced upon its release in 2014. Despite Wilder’s enduring popularity, few fans know…

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…with the Supreme Court's decision about Trump’s immunity, the Democratic party considering other candidates, France's election update, and fake reviews. 43:17

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…with the presidential debate, Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, the Supreme Court’s decision about Chevron, and good news about murder. 59:45

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June 2024 Book Talk | Reading Evangelicals by Daniel Silliman 1:16:32

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The story of five best-selling novels beloved by evangelicals, the book industry they built, and the collective imagination they shaped Who are evangelicals? And what is evangelicalism? Those attempting to answer these questions usually speak in terms of political and theological stances. But those stances emerge from an evangelical world with its …

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…with the border shutdown, Hunter Biden’s gun trial, and the women rangers of Indonesia. 39:34

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...with Trump’s felony charges, elections around the world, bird flu, and reordering baseball record-holders. 55:51

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...with the violence in Haiti, AI's intelligence, and the wonderful world of censuses. 43:28

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For more on the missionaries who were killed in Haiti, check out Daniel's article in Christianity Today.By Benjamin Lee and Daniel Silliman

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May 2024 Book Talk | God Gave Rock and Roll to You by Leah Payne 1:12:37

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In God Gave Rock and Roll to You (OUP, 2024), Leah Payne traces the history and trajectory of CCM in America and, in the process, demonstrates how the industry, its artists, and its fans shaped–and continue to shape–conservative, (mostly) white, evangelical Protestantism. For many outside observers, evangelical pop stars, interpretive dancers, pupp…

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...with Boeing 747s, Israel moving deeper into Gaza, and whales. 37:53

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By Benjamin Lee and Daniel Silliman

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...with protests on university campuses, and a news blitz! 57:27

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April 2024 Book Talk | Exhibiting Evangelicalism by Devin Manzullo-Thomas 1:00:52

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Exhibiting Evangelicalism provides the first account of the growth and development of historical museums created by white evangelical Christians in the United States over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Exploring the histories of the Museum of the Bible, the Billy Graham Center Museum, the Billy Sunday Home, and Park Street Church, Devin …

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…with the Iran–Israel conflict, Trump’s hush-money trail, Speaker Mike Johnson’s $95 billion aid package, and the power that rises in the east. 49:42

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Israeli strikes in Syria and Gaza, Amazon’s AI-run grocery story that wasn’t, and what to do with 20,000 Botswanan elephants. 40:20

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March 2024 Book Talk | Cultural Christians in the Early Church by Nadya William 56:07

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Cultural Christians in the Early Church, which aims to be both historical and practical, argues that cultural Christians were the rule, rather than the exception, in the early church. Using different categories of sins as its organizing principle, the book considers the challenge of culture to the earliest converts to Christianity, as they struggle…

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…with the Baltimore Key Bridge, updates and corrections, the Supreme Court abortion pill argument, and solar eclipse news. 49:56

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...with sports gambling, Trump’s legal bills, new political parties, and nature making a comeback. 43:22

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…with TikTok, an update on the Russia election, Tennessee man, and driving Afghan women. 37:46

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...with Laken Riley, and news around the world, and space, and time! 55:34

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February 2024 Book Talk | The Gospel of Church by Janine Giordano-Drake 59:21

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In 1908, Unitarian pastor Bertrand Thompson observed the momentous growth of the labor movement with alarm. “Socialism,” he wrote, “has become a distinct substitute” for the church. He was not wrong. In the generation after the Civil War, few of the migrants who moved North and West to take jobs in factories and mines had any association with tradi…

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…with displaced Palestinians, the Supreme Court hearing on Trump’s immunity, the death (and courage) of a Russian dissident, and an ancient prophecy concerning birds. 50:18

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Check out Christianity Today’s article on Alexei Navalny [excerpt from article] “I am a believer, and that helps me a lot in my activities because everything becomes much, much easier. There are fewer dilemmas in my life, because there is a book in which, in general, it is more or less clearly written what action to take in every situation,” he exp…

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…with the Republican primary update, ruling on frozen embryos, standardize testing, and SPACE NEWS. 44:40

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…with the Kansas city shooting, Fani Willis’s compromising relationships, Biden’s special consul report, and the Pakistan’s Prime (Prison) Minster runoff. 49:47

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…Iowa primary updates, the chip war, Supreme Court hearing on Chevron deference, and the Irishness of Ayo Edebiri. 45:15

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…with Trump’s immunity, the escalating tension in the Middle East, the Artemis II launch, and Great Britain gaining pounds. 40:44

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January 2024 Book Talk | Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow by Brendan Payne 1:00:11

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In Gin, Jesus, and Jim Crow, Brendan J. J. Payne reveals how prohibition helped realign the racial and religious order in the South by linking restrictions on alcohol with political preaching and the disfranchisement of Black voters. While both sides invoked Christianity, prohibitionists redefined churches’ doctrines, practices, and political engag…

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…with the supreme court’s deliberations on the 14th Amendment, the Pope blessing same-sex marriages, US destroyers sinking ships in the Red Sea, and space news. 49:39

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...Daniel and Ben discuss their "best of 2023" 59:28

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December 2023 Virtual Coffee | A Look Back at the History of CFH 1:07:05

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What has been the history of the Conference on Faith and History? What have been the high points, the difficult points, and what have we learned as an organization that seeks to explore the relationship between the Christian faith and history? And what would one generation of historians wish to pass on to the next generation of historians? Listen i…

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...with news around the world. 48:56

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…with Kevin McCarthy’s announcement to leave the house, the Climate Change Conference, and the status on Notre Dame renovations. 41:02

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December 2023 Book Talk | South Asia's Christians by Chandra Mallampalli 58:58

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South Asia is home to more than a billion Hindus and half a billion Muslims. But the region is also home to substantial Christian communities, some dating almost to the earliest days of the faith. The stories of South Asia’s Christians are vital for understanding the shifting contours of World Christianity, precisely because of their history of int…

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...with three notable obituaries, religious and ethnic persecution in India, and Biden's pipe cleaning. 39:58

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...with Israel- Hamas ceasefire, movement in the Republican primaries, updates, and AI tech managements. 51:53

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...with the budget update, Israel-Hamas war, pardoned turkeys, and renaming warblers. 40:50

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…with the Tuesday election news blitz, brutal news from Johnson City, and the magical mango forest. 47:00

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3:00 - Tuesday election news blitz 20:25 - Correction about daylight savings time 24:50 - Brutal news from Johnson City 38:30 - The magical mango forestBy Benjamin Lee and Daniel Silliman

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November 2023 Book Panel | An Infinite Fountain of Light: Jonathan Edwards for the Twenty-First Century by George Marsden 1:04:26

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Christians need to pause once in a while to get their bearings. For perspective on our own times and how we got here, it helps to listen to wise guides from other eras. In An Infinite Fountain of Light (IVP Academic, 2023), the renowned American historian George Marsden illuminates the landscape with wisdom from one such mentor: Jonathan Edwards. D…

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...with a NEWS BLITZ of events. 43:28

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…with the new Speaker of the House (Mike Johnson), the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and the The Synod on Synodality. 38:51

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October 2023 Book Panel | Elisabeth Elliot: A Life by S. R. Austen 50:05

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Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) is one of the most widely known Christians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. After the death of her husband, Jim, and four other missionaries at the hands of Waorani tribesmen in Ecuador, Elliot famously returned to live among the same people who had killed her husband. Her legacy, however, extends far beyond…

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...with update in Israel, Speaker of the House, the pleading of Trump’s lawyer, and the Wizard of Oz. 29:47

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...with the Israel-Hamas war, Speaker of the House update, Biden's wall?, and genetically modified ducks. 36:57

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Amid Israel-Hamas War, Local Christians Seek Righteous Anger and Gospel Hope (Christianity Today article)By Benjamin Lee and Daniel Silliman

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October 2023 Book Talk | Walter Lippmann: American Skeptic, American Pastor by Mark Edwards 1:00:52

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Walter Lippmann was arguably the most recognized and respected political journalist of the twentieth century. His “Today and Tomorrow” columns attracted a global readership of well over ten million. Lippmann was the author of numerous books, including the best-selling A Preface to Morals (1929) and U.S. Foreign Policy (1943). His Public Opinion (19…

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...with the Speaker of the House, Nobel Prize winners, and fun news about hurricane Lee. 30:29

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...the shutdown update, Trump's fraud, Sen. Menendez's gold bars, and Tupac. 46:47

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September 2023 Virtual Coffee | The History of Gun Violence in the U. S. 59:14

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Since the shootings in Buffalo, Laguna Woods, and Uvalde, the AACC (Asian American Christian Collaborative) has been a crucial Christian organization that is actively pursuing advocacy and policy efforts to address gun violence in the United States. During April of 2023, the Anxious Bench proudly partnered with the AACC to raise awareness about the…