american-civil-war

BHoP#162 Border Wars Part 5

September 18, 2023 ·

Dr Adam Koontz and Rev Willie Grills continue discussing Bleeding Kansas, talking about the use of guerilla warfare, Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, General Order No. 11, and the potential consequences of a modern national divorce.

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Dr Koontz – Trinity Lutheran Church

Pr. Willie Grills – Zion Lutheran Church

BHoP#159 Border Wars Part 4

September 11, 2023 ·

Dr Adam Koontz and Rev Willie Grills talk about Bleeding Kansas: the sides involved and the people backing them, and John Brown’s involvement in the Pottawatomie Massacres and the attempted slave revolt, and his eventual arrest and trial.

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Dr Koontz – Trinity Lutheran Church

Pr. Willie Grills – Zion Lutheran Church

BHoP#158 Border Wars Part 3

August 31, 2023 ·

Dr Adam Koontz and Rev Willie Grills talk about the first and second waves of German immigration to Missouri, their social and political tendencies, and their place in the American Civil War.

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Dr Koontz – Trinity Lutheran Church

Pr. Willie Grills – Zion Lutheran Church

BHoP#156 Border Wars Part 1

August 17, 2023 ·

Dr Adam Koontz and Rev Willie Grills talk about nations and borders, the settling of Missouri and the state’s role in the American Civil War, and the effects of the German immigration in the 19th century.

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Dr Koontz – Trinity Lutheran Church
Rev Fisk – St Paul Rockford and Hebron Collegium

BHoP#118 Red Scare – Part 1

November 17, 2022 ·

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about why they do A Brief History of Power, why memory is necessary for all art, the foundation of worldview, the history of McCarthy’s investigations and the modern implications of the Left’s response to it, and the current level of vehement disagreement that parallels what existed before the civil war.

Many thanks to our sponsors, Blessed Sacrament Lutheran Church in Hayden, ID, Our Savior Lutheran Church and School in Pagosa Springs, CO, and Luther Classical College.

Dr Koontz – Trinity Lutheran Church
Rev Fisk – St Paul Rockford

BHoP#100 Halloween All the Time

July 7, 2022 ·

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk continue last week’s discussion about the overturning of Roe. They talk about the effects of the Left’s ideas on today’s children, the increased need to seek alliances with other Christians, America’s modern culture of death and its contrast with Mexico, why Satan hates children, and employing centuries-long thinking.

Many thanks to our sponsors, Blessed Sacrament Lutheran Church in Hayden, ID and Our Savior Lutheran Church and School in Pagosa Springs, CO

Dr Koontz – Trinity Lutheran Church
Rev Fisk – St Paul Rockford

BHoP#031 Reconstructive Terrorism and Domestic Wars

March 11, 2021 ·

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about the apparatus of counter-terrorism developed after 9-11 being turned to new uses, the defining of “domestic terrorist” by the government to its own advantage, history of terrorism in the civil war, the media telling you to be more worried about your reaction to an event that the event itself, and aiming for things which will be of true importance for the future.

Dr Koontz – Agrarian, Egghead – Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne
Rev Fisk – Author, Fanatic – St Paul Rockford