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  • Episode 327: Ivan the Terrible (Part Four)

    Episode 327: Ivan the Terrible (Part Four)
    Nov 22 2024
    Ivan's reign ends as it began, with needless death and destruction. Ivan appears powerless to resist Lithuanian advances but is more than capable of murdering his son and heir.

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    49 mins
  • Episode 326: Ivan the Terrible (Part Three)

    Episode 326: Ivan the Terrible (Part Three)
    Nov 15 2024
    Ivan creates a new government and takes his anger out on the citizens of Novgorod.

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    36 mins
  • Episode 325: Ivan the Terrible (Part Two)

    Episode 325: Ivan the Terrible (Part Two)
    Nov 8 2024
    Ivan goes on campaign against Kazan and the guardrails start coming off.

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    28 mins
  • Episode 324: Ivan the Terrible (Part One)

    Episode 324: Ivan the Terrible (Part One)
    Nov 1 2024
    Ivan IV assumes the throne after a twelve-year regency. It does not take him long to earn his nickname.

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    33 mins
  • Episode 323: Russian Review

    Episode 323: Russian Review
    Oct 25 2024
    Before we jump into Ivan the Terrible (Ivan IV), let's catch up on the Rus.

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    24 mins
  • Episode 322: The End of James I

    Episode 322: The End of James I
    Oct 18 2024
    Charles and Buckingham go on an adventure to Spain which ends, spoiler alert, horribly. The Thirty Years War erupts in Germany. But James does not live to see it reach a fever pitch.

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    38 mins
  • Episode 321: Trouble in Germany

    Episode 321: Trouble in Germany
    Oct 11 2024
    James I desperately wanted to marry his son, Charles, to the Spanish Princess. However, when his son-in-law, Frederick of the Palatinate, becomes embroiled in what will become the Thirty Years War, that goal seems more and more distant by the minute.

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    24 mins
  • The Bible: A Global History

    The Bible: A Global History
    Oct 9 2024
    A global history of the world’s best-known and most influential book.

    For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God. Its eternal words are transmitted across the world by fallible human hands. Following Jesus’s departing instruction to go out into the world, the Bible has been a book in motion from its very beginnings, and every community it has encountered has read, heard, and seen the Bible through its own language and culture.

    In The Bible, Bruce Gordon tells the astounding story of the Bible’s journey around the globe and across more than two thousand years, showing how it has shaped and been shaped by changing beliefs and believers’ radically different needs. The Bible has been a tool for violence and oppression, and it has expressed hopes for liberation. God speaks with one voice, but the people who receive it are scattered and divided—found in desert monasteries and Chinese house churches, in Byzantine cathedrals and Guatemalan villages.

    Breathtakingly global in scope, The Bible tells the story of this sacred book through the stories of its many and diverse human encounters, revealing not a static text but a living, dynamic cultural force.

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    52 mins