Church History for Chumps
Hosted by John and Taylor · ay big dog media
4.8from 124 ratings
- 207
- Episodes
- 18
- Transcribed
- 124
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About Church History for Chumps
We're not your grandfather's church history podcast. But we'd also really appreciate it if he still listened. Saints, heretics, councils...and the occasional crazy stuff. We have fun. IG: @churchhistory4chumps
- Publisher
- ay big dog media
- Category
- history · religion & spirituality · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 May 2023
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
18 of 207 episodes have a transcript.
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155. The Earliest Reformers in Europe: The Story of the Waldensians
Published 29 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] If you go to Worms, Germany, which our Reformation fans know, big site for Martin Luther, the Luther Monument has this incredible... sculpture of peter waldo where he's just like looking very astute he's wearing this robe he's like writing in this gigantic book and he just looks so like powerful and scholarly and wonderful and if you go to geneva switzerland which of course the home of john calvin uh The Reformation wall, you can see an inscription where it has the names of three of the proto-reformers. It has the name Jan Hus of Czech fame. We have John Wycliffe of English fame. And then at the very top, it has the name of Peter Waldo. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 25 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 99 ratings
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- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 77
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