The Blue Collar Scholar
This podcast will cover the topics covered by the history lectures, sermons, and Bible/theology studies of Will Reitz.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 269
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
What Is Religion?
The plan was to teach a "Comparing World Religions" class this fall. Unfortunately, too few students signed up for the class. Nevertheless, the first lecture was given and recorded, and here it is. I…
01:42:52 |
Thu 04 Sep 2025
World War I
The plan was to teach a World War II class this fall. Unfortunately, too few students signed up for the class. Nevertheless, the first lecture was given and recorded, and here it is. In this episode,…
01:51:34 |
Fri 29 Aug 2025
Panel Discussion about the Fall of Ravi Zacharias (and the Moral Failings of Public Figures) on the Analyzed podcast (6-10-2021)
In 2021, I was invited onto an atheist podcast five times to represent an evangelical perspective. The podcast is known as "Analyzed" and can be found in your podcast distributor. This episode was or…
00:54:35 |
Sun 17 Aug 2025
A Pre-Overturn-of-Roe-v.-Wade Panel Discussion on Abortion on the Analyzed podcast (5-7-2021)
In 2021, I was invited onto an atheist podcast five times to represent an evangelical perspective. The podcast is known as "Analyzed" and can be found in your podcast distributor. This episode was or…
01:14:13 |
Sat 16 Aug 2025
Panel Discussion on Evangelicalism on the Analyzed podcast (4-11-2021)
In 2021, I was invited onto an atheist podcast five times to represent an evangelical perspective. The podcast is known as "Analyzed" and can be found in your podcast distributor. This episode was or…
01:08:34 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
Panel Discussion on Deconversion from Christianity on the Analyzed podcast (3-9-2021)
*** NOTE: This episode features a panelist talking frankly about his history of drug use. This episode may not be suitable for younger viewers. ***
In 2021, I was invited onto an atheist podcast fi…
01:10:29 |
Thu 14 Aug 2025
Panel Discussion on Sex and Relationships on the Analyzed podcast (2-16-2021)
This is my very first podcast of all time, back in 2021 when I was invited onto an atheist podcast to discuss sex and relationships. The podcast is known as "Analyzed" and can be found in your podcas…
02:10:58 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
Sermon: The Life of Christ - Resurrection (11-10-2013)
The final episode in the Life of Christ series is also the last extant recording of any of the sermons I gave at First Baptist Church of Goodman, at least any recordings I am aware of. In this sermon…
00:36:02 |
Sun 10 Aug 2025
Sermon: The Life of Christ - Death (11-3-2013)
The death of Jesus Christ is perhaps the most important moment in all history, according to a Christian theological interpretation of history. The death gives the resurrection obvious meaning, it rep…
00:35:31 |
Sat 09 Aug 2025
Sermon: The Life of Christ - The Triumphal Entry (10-27-2013)
One week before Easter each year, most churches celebrate what is called "Palm Sunday." This commemorates the moment when Jesus enters into Jerusalem to begin his final week of ministry before His de…
00:31:32 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
Sermon: The Life of Christ - Jesus Calls His Disciples (10-6-2013)
Jesus chose His closest disciples from amongst the working class, the poor, the outcasts, & the unwanted. And Jesus took those men - men that society saw as losers - and the Lord changed the world wi…
00:32:25 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
Sermon: The Life of Christ - Birth to Baptism (9-29-2013)
At the risk of stating the obvious, Jesus Christ is the most important person in Christian teaching and theology. The Old Testament points to Him, the New Testament documents His ministry and the bir…
00:39:47 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Sermon: The End Times Series: The Tribulation (10-21-2012)
This was not the conclusion to the End Times Series, but the last couple of messages were not recorded. So this sermon about the Tribulation is the last teaching about the End Times that we will have…
00:39:37 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
Sermon: End Times Series: Rapture! (10-14-2012)
I am always careful when dealing with the topic of the rapture, acknowledging that many (perhaps most) Biblical scholars scoff at this piece of dispensational theology, and I remain extremely non-dog…
00:37:18 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
Sermon: End Times Series: Future History 102 - Other Views of the End Times (10-7-2012)
This episode explores the differences between premillennial dispensationalism, historic premillennialism, and amillennialism. (Unfortunately, the recording got cut off before discussing postmillennia…
00:44:35 |
Sun 03 Aug 2025
Sermon: End Times Series: Future History 101 - A Brief Study of Prophecy & the God of Prophecy (10-7-2012)
If your exposure to my teaching is mostly limited to the content of this podcast feed, then you might have concluded by now that I am one of the those End Times preachers. After all, I have already d…
00:38:43 |
Sat 02 Aug 2025
Sermon: The Hurt & the Healer, part 4: Healing … & Beyond (6-24-2012)
In this conclusion to The Hurt & the Healer series, we talk about what it looks like to heal, and how God can use the tragedies in your life to bring glory to Him, to enrich your life, and to love an…
00:35:57 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
Sermon: The Hurt & the Healer, part 3: VICTORY!!! (6-17-2012)
The Hurt & the Healer series continues by showing that the ultimate struggle between God and Satan is already a foregone conclusion. Satan and evil and death and pain are marked for defeat. Ultimate …
00:33:04 |
Thu 31 Jul 2025
Sermon: The Hurt & the Healer, part 2: Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? (6-10-2012)
This episode digs into the age-old Problem of Evil, or as it is usually expressed: "Why do bad things happen to good people?" The question can be answered, but we need to be careful. Telling a hurtin…
00:34:56 |
Wed 30 Jul 2025
Sermon: The Hurt & the Healer, part 1: At Your Crossroads (6-3-2012)
This is the first sermon in a series called "The Hurt & the Healer." This series was inspired by the Mercy Me song of the same title. This series seeks to provide hope to those who are hurting. The t…
00:32:46 |
Tue 29 Jul 2025
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