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
The World Wars, Episode 4: Initial Nazi Victories
The European Theater of World War II will be our focus on the podcast for the next few months. (In the Spring, we will shift the focus to the Pacific Theater.) For the Nazis, the earliest stages of t…
01:06:42 |
Wed 15 Feb 2023
The World Wars, Episode 3: Between the World Wars
This episode briefly explores the Paris Peace Conference, Prohibition, the Roaring '20s, technological advances after WWI, the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the Spanish Civil War, the Japanese inv…
01:12:44 |
Sat 11 Feb 2023
The World Wars, Episode 2: World War I
In this podcast episode, we will take a criminally-brief dive into World War 1, why it started, who were the major belligerents, and how WWI set the stage for WWII.
01:05:05 |
Thu 09 Feb 2023
Audible® Book Review: "Confederate Reckoning," by Stephanie McCurry
This short episode of The Blue Collar Scholar is a book review and enthusiastic recommendation to read or listen to "Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South" by Stephanie McC…
00:22:14 |
Wed 25 Jan 2023
The World Wars, Episode 1: Before World War I
This episode kicks off a new class for Spring 2023: The World Wars. The first episode quickly summarizes all the wars and industrialization that helped form the great belligerent nations of the First…
01:10:17 |
Wed 25 Jan 2023
The New Testament Finale, Episode 25: New Testament Theology
This podcast episode will conclude the lessons for the Fall 2022 New Testament class. This episode is a survey of New Testament theology, examining the Doctrine of Man, the Doctrine of the Church, an…
01:31:30 |
Thu 08 Dec 2022
The New Testament, Episode 24: Monotheism
We will close out the New Testament class with a few lessons on New Testament Theology. First up, we will discuss monotheism and the Trinity.
00:29:30 |
Tue 29 Nov 2022
The New Testament, Episode 23: Transmission, Translations, & the KJV
This episode will cover the class notes of the last three class periods for the New Testament class. In this episode, we will briefly discuss how the original manuscripts of the New Testament were tr…
01:10:57 |
Tue 29 Nov 2022
The New Testament, Episode 22: Canon
As a time-saving measure, I will be switching formats for the rest of the semester. Instead of sharing classroom audio, these episodes will use the same notes that I use to teach, but it will be a po…
00:34:41 |
Tue 08 Nov 2022
The New Testament, Episode 21: The Apostle Paul
This episode completes the three-part sub-series of biographies of the New Testament. In this episode, we take a look at the biography of Saul of Tarsus, who went by the Greek name Paul (or Paulos) o…
01:01:17 |
Tue 08 Nov 2022
The New Testament, Episode 20: The Apostles of Christ
This episode gives an overview of all the Apostles of Christ, as well as all of the individuals who could possibly be called Apostles based on the text of various New Testament verses. This episode d…
01:07:47 |
Tue 01 Nov 2022
The New Testament, Episode 19: The Biography of Jesus Christ
Now that we have examined each of the books of the New Testament, we will begin to synthesize the material. We shall start with an overview of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, called Christ, or Messiah…
01:21:36 |
Tue 01 Nov 2022
The New Testament, Episode 18: The Gnostic Gospels
You will certainly hear multiple talking heads on documentaries or semi-educational programming talking about how the 27 books of the New Testament were chosen "arbitrarily," and that there are hundr…
00:56:14 |
Sat 22 Oct 2022
The New Testament, Episode 17: The Early Church Fathers
This episode gives a brief overview of the Church Fathers. We discuss the importance of the Council of Nicaea, the Ontological Argument, The Schism between the Eastern and Western Church, and the Pro…
01:11:04 |
Wed 19 Oct 2022
The New Testament, Episode 16: Luke & Acts
We complete our study of the text of the New Testament by taking a look at Luke & Acts, which together make Luke the Evangelist the most prolific author of the New Testament. Through Luke, we have mo…
00:52:19 |
Tue 18 Oct 2022
The New Testament, Episode 15: Matthew & Mark
The New Testament opens with four accounts of Jesus life. The first two of these Gospels, Matthew and Mark, are the topic of discussion in this lecture. In this episode we will discuss the two earlie…
01:13:28 |
Wed 12 Oct 2022
The New Testament, Episode 14: The Books of the Apostle John
The four books with the word "John" in them plus the book of Revelation all all written by an author named "John." This could be several different Johns, or it could be The Apostle John. In this epis…
01:03:36 |
Tue 11 Oct 2022
The New Testament, Episode 13: 1st & 2nd Peter and Jude
The #1 disciple, Simon (who Jesus named Peter) left us 2 letters. And Jude, the half-brother of Christ, gave us a short letter that is very similar in style and substance to 2 Peter. So in this episo…
00:59:40 |
Wed 05 Oct 2022
The New Testament, Episode 12: Hebrews & James
This episode explores the incredible, academic, and very Jewish book called Hebrews. Who wrote it? Who is Melchizedek? What about those warning passages? ... In the second half, we look at the epistl…
01:06:04 |
Tue 04 Oct 2022
The New Testament, Episode 11: The Pastoral Epistles
There is significant disagreement amongst scholars as to whether the Apostle Paul really wrote 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, or Titus, collectively known as the Pastoral Epistles. In this episode we will dis…
00:44:44 |
Wed 28 Sep 2022
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