American Evangelicals - A History Podcast

SL Brown Foundation

American Evangelicals blends storytelling and free-flowing conversation to explore the varieties, similarities, and significance of evangelical Christians in American history.Spanning the religious revivals of the 18th century to the cultural and political conflicts of the 21st, each episode is a conversation based on the historical research of its hosts, the deep scholarship on American evangelicals, and the lives of real figures who shaped the movement.Hosted by three historians of American evangelicalism, discover how evangelicals have shaped and been shaped by the challenges of not just theology and belief, but by the same forces that have contributed to American...

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American Evangelicals - A History Podcast

Episodes (6)

Today Faith and Race: Whose Story Gets Told?
Thu May 21st Theology, History, and the Question of Identity
Thu May 14th Defining the American Evangelical Movement: Doctrine and Denominations

American Evangelicals - A History Podcast

May 28, 2026
1¼ hours
48 MB

One of the most complex and contested questions in the study of American religion is the relationship between evangelicalism and race. Episode 5 of American Evangelicals: A History Podcast takes up that question through an unexpected doorway: the story of J. M. Humphrey, a little-known holiness minister who built a ministry in the early twentieth century — and whose race, historian Maggie Capra discovered, was invisible in the sources until a single letter revealed it. That discovery — that Humphrey was Black, and that his racial identity had been effectively unknown from the sources that survived him — opens into a wide-r...

American Evangelicals - A History Podcast

Faith and Race: Whose Story Gets Told?

SL Brown Foundation

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