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Friedrich Nietzsche, "God is dead."

A Discussion on Saint Patrirck with Dr. Miriam Kelly, professor of Irish History

Karl Marx, Socialism, and Communism

Charles Darwin and Evolutionary Theory

Kierkegaard and Existentialism - 100+ Significant Moments in Church History with Mike Woodruff

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - 100+ Significant Moments in Church History

Abraham Lincoln - 100+ Significant Moments in Church History with Mike Woodruff

Christianity in the 19th Century

Wilberforce, Thornton, and the Clapham Sect

The Bill of Rights - 100+ Significant Moments in Church History

How to Navigate Your Relationship with the News and Media 100+ Significant Moments in Church History

Schleiermacher and Theological Liberalism - 100+ Significant Moments in Church History

Conservatism and Edmund Burke - 100+ Significant Moments in Church History

The Church's Response to Slavery: William Wilberforce and American Original Sin

Global Missions in the 18th Century

Romanticism - 100+ Significant Moments in Church History with Mike Woodruff

Is America a Christian Nation? - The Founding of America - 100+ Significant Moments in Church History

Christianity's Influence on Capitalism - 100+ Significant Moments in Church History with Mike Woodruff

Christianity and Higher Education

Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening

The Most Important Literature of the 15th through 18th Centuries

Whitefield, Wesley, and the Birth of the Methodist Church

In this episode we're examining the lives of George Whitefield and John Wesley and the events that led them to launching the Methodist movement.

The U.S. and French Revolutions

In this episode Mike will be explaining and comparing the US and French Revolutions, which both grow out of the Enlightenment, but have significantly different understandings of human nature which shape significantly different forms of government. 

Significant Moments in the 18th Century

In today’s episode we are focusing on the 18th century – sometimes referred to as “the century of lights” – providing you with the panorama of what happened so you get a feel for this period.  Then, in subsequent episode we’ll double back and do a deeper dive on some of the more important people, events and ideas. 

The Enlightenment

In today’s lecture, Mike will be discussing the Enlightenment – the major shift in European life and thought that occurred during the 17th and 18th centuries.  

The King James Version of the Bible - 100+ Significant Moments in Church History with Mike Woodruff

The Pilgrims Land in North America

The Scientific Revolution

The Seventeenth Century

In today’s episode, Mike will be providing a fly over of the 17th century – which is one of the most consequential centuries ever.  As you will soon see, it was not only full of wars and revolutions, but also advances and changes on numerous fronts. Some of the most interesting and important people – and some of the most controversial and consequential events in Western Civ - unfold during the 1600s. 

Thomas Cranmer and the Book of Common Prayer

The Catholic Reformation - Episode 46

Ideas are a Catalyst for Change: Martin Luther's Influence on the Protestant Reformation - Episode 45 - 100+ Significant Moments in Church History

Why Study History? A Look at the Flow that Connects Our Past and Present

The English Act of Supremacy

Milestones in the 16th Century

Calvin's Institutes - Episode 41

In today’s episode, Mike will be focusing on Calvin’s Institutes, a collection of four books that were written – and rewritten and rewritten and rewritten - by John Calvin. As you will soon see, it is hard to overstate the value of The Institutes. 

Stuck in the Present: How History Frees and Forms Christians - Episode 40 interview with David Moore

Today’s One Hundred Plus Podcast is a bit different. Over the last year, Mike has been walking through an historical overview of 100 of the most important people, places and ideas of the last 2,000 years. It has been a survey of the forces and factors that have shaped today’s world, the Christian faith and you.    The plan has been to lay the track of the one hundred topics and then to double back with supplemental material - such as interviews with authors or deeper dives into certain top...

Stuck in the Present: How History Frees and Forms Christians - Episode 40 interview with Dan Moore

Today’s One Hundred Plus Podcast is a bit different. Over the last year, Mike has been walking through an historical overview of 100 of the most important people, places and ideas of the last 2,000 years. It has been a survey of the forces and factors that have shaped today’s world, the Christian faith and you.    The plan has been to lay the track of the one hundred topics and then to double back with supplemental material - such as interviews with authors or deeper dives into certain top...

Episode 39 - The Protestant Reformation Part 5: Calvinism - 100+ Significant Moments in Church History

Episode 38: The Protestant Reformation Part 3

Episode 38: The Protestant Reformation Part 4

Episode 37: The Protestant Reformation Part 3

Today’s episode is the third part in our overview of the Protestant Reformation, which started when a young Augustinian monk nailed 95 theses onto the door of the castle church in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517, and became one of the most influential revolutions in Western Civilization. We have been focused on one of the true pivot points in Western Civilization – the Protestant Reformation, which happened in the 16th century when Martin Luther – the monk with the mallet - set out to correct a...

Episode 36: The Life of Martin Luther - The Protestant Reformation Part 2

Episode 35 - The Reformation Part 1 - 100+ Significant Moments in Christian History

Episode 34: The Renaissance

Episode 33: Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel and the Intersection of Faith and Art

Today we begin our multi-week focus on the Renaissance, staring with Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel and then stepping back to consider the important intersections of faith and art.

Episode 32: The Origins of Human Rights

A.   In today’s lecture, Mike will be discussing on the rise of Human Rights, showing how they are grounded in the Christian Worldview and tracing their development over three thousand years. 

Episode 31: The Art of Reading Christian Literature

Episode 30: The Origins of the Protestant Movement: The Return to Prominence of the Most Important Book in History

 In today’s lecture, Mike will be focusing on two of the Pre-Reformers, John Wycliffe and Jan Hus, explaining what they did that got them sideways with the authorities, and why.  The Bible is the most significant book of all time. Most claims to be “the best” or “the biggest” are long on hype.  Not here.  There are many ways to substantiate the Bible’s dominance. Today we turn to two men who are significant for a few reasons.   First, because they point ahead to an event that is going to...

Episode 29: The Great Council

This episode will focuses on the Fourth Lateran Council, a 13th century event you have likely never heard of – and can’t imagine you are listening to a lecture on it. But this council – which is often referred to as the Great Council – is important for a handful of reasons. The one Mike will be highlighting today deals with the formalized endorsement of the doctrine of Transubstantiation. Which is the Roman Catholic idea that the communion elements become the actual body and blood of Christ...