{"podcast":{"title":"Western Civ","slug":"western-civ-780766","podcast_index_feed_id":780766,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5553835/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.westerncivpodcast.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a45449e0f8427d59666fc5dfcf007a95.jpg","author":"Adam Walsh","episode_count":594,"summary":"A fast-moving history of the western world from the ancient world to the present day. Examine how the emergence of the western world as a global dominant power was not something that should ever have been taken for granted. This podcast traces the development of western civilization starting in the ancient Near East, through Greece and Rome, past the collapse of the Western Roman Empire into the Dark Ages, and then follows European and, ultimately, American history as the western world moved into a dominant world position.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-18T00:18:32.647147+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/western-civ-780766"},"episode":{"title":"Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity","slug":"chosen-land-how-christianity-made-america-and-americans-remade-christianity","published_at":"2026-03-03T13:05:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/western-civ-780766/chosen-land-how-christianity-made-america-and-americans-remade-christianity","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/western-civ-780766","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/chosen-land-how-christianity-made-america-and-americans-remade-christianity--70298266","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70298266/chosen_land.mp3","summary":"In the United States today, there is no faith more dominant than Christianity. In Chosen Land , historian Matthew Avery Sutton chronicles Christians’ five-hundred-year endeavor to turn North America into their version of the kingdom of God, revealing the fruitful and dynamic entanglement between the history of America and the history of American Christianity. In the centuries after Christianity first arrived on American shores, colonizers and colonized from New England to Spanish California practiced many varieties of the faith. After the founding of the United States, the nation’s lack of a state religion forced new and evolving strains of Christianity to battle for potential adherents, as they still do to this day. As American Christianity has bent, fractured, and adapted to changing times, Christian belief has shaped everything from the promise of Manifest Destiny to Ronald Reagan’s approach to the Cold War, the rise of the Southern Lost Cause narrative to the triumphs of the civil rights movement. Buy the book HERE . Western Civ 2.0 Free Trial","meta_description":"In the United States today, there is no faith more dominant than Christianity. In Chosen Land , historian Matthew Avery Sutton chronicles Christians’ five…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2540,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/western-civ-780766/episodes/chosen-land-how-christianity-made-america-and-americans-remade-christianity/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/western-civ-780766/chosen-land-how-christianity-made-america-and-americans-remade-christianity.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}