In this season opener, Truce Podcast host Chris Staron examines how the term “biblical” is often used in modern politics and culture—sometimes without actually referencing Scripture. Using a 1978 Senate speech about the Panama Canal as a starting point, the episode explores how people appeal to “biblical values” to justify political positions, and asks the deeper question: what does it really mean to be biblical?
Season 6 – Rise of the Religious Right
S6:E2 Harold Ockenga – Can Christians Unite?
From Decline to Unity: Evangelicals Embrace the Youth Culture Revolution - Joel Carpenter Does...
S6:E3 Billy Graham and Nixon
The Grim Reality of the Watergate Scandal: Billy Graham's Loyalty Tested - guest David Bruce Have...
S6:E4 Long Southern Strategy
Give a little to help support the Truce Podcast How the Republicans learned to court the South...
S6:E5 Can I Love Extremists?
Can I Love Extremists? So many people define their faith by what they believe about Donald Trump....
S6:E6 End of School Prayer
Is it illegal to pray in schools? In 1955, the Board of Regents for New York issued an optional...
S6:E7 Kanawha County Textbook War
The shocking true story of how a school board meeting in West Virginia embodied a debate over...
S6:E8 RJ Rushdoony and Christian Reconstruction
Christian Reconstruction and R.J. Rushdoony RJ Rushdoony is not a household name. But he...
S6:E9 Phyllis Schlafly and The ERA
Phyllis Schlafly single-handedly killed the ERA Phyllis Schlafly was a remarkable woman....
S6:E10 National Women’s Conference Part 1
In 1977, the Congress of the United States allotted $5 million for the National Women's...
S6:E11National Women’s Conference (part 2)
1977 marked the beginning of the Religious Right and women lit the flame. The National Women's...
S6:E12 Women’s Roundtable Book Discussion
Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique sparks second-wave feminism. Betty Friedan's The Feminine...











