In Search of Truth: American History with Peter Choi (S2E2)

Welcome to In Search Of, a podcast where we go in search of voices and perspectives that inform and expand a life of faith. In this episode, Amy speaks with Peter Choi about monuments: what do they mean in American history, especially the history of evangelical Christianity? What does it mean to put monuments up? And what does it mean to tear them down? Listen to Peter and Amy discuss race, myths, and teaching history in this episode of In Search Of. A transcript of this episode is available here.

Peter Choi is Associate Professor of American Christianity at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley whose areas of study include transatlantic revival religion, early evangelicalism, and world Christianity. He is the author of George Whitefield: Evangelist for God and Empire (2018) and Subverting Faith: Early Evangelicals and the Making of Race (under contract, Oxford University Press).

Related Christian Century Content:

• “The American tradition of tearing down statues,” by Devin C. Manzullo-Thomas (Aug 2022) (review of Erin L. Thompson’s Smashing Statues)

• “Feeling US history,” by Amy Frykholm (June 2022)

• “The old ‘distraction’ slur against advocates for justice,” by Mark Glanville (June 2022)

• “Why do we teach history?” by the CC editors (Nov 2021)

• “Take & Read: American religious history,” by Anne Blue Wills (Oct 2021)

• “Can offensive monuments from the past help hold us accountable today?” by Dorothy Sanders Wells (Aug 2020)

• “Is the destruction of monuments a rewriting of history?” by Peter W. Marty (July 2020)

• “American evangelicalism and the politics of whiteness,” by Seth Dowland (June 2018)

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