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Medieval Christian History

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The Medieval Christian History walked out of the cities of the Roman Empire and into the emptiest places on earth, trading everything for silence. What they found in the desert, and what followed them there, became one of history's strangest and most influential experiments. This show tells the true stories of the Desert Fathers.

Each episode reconstructs one life in full, cinematic detail: the world abandoned, the cave or cell in the wilderness, the visitors who arrived seeking miracles, and the battles fought entirely within one man's mind. No host chatting between clips, no panel debating theology. Just one complete story, narrated start to finish, built from the sayings, letters, and early accounts that preserved the desert fathers for seventeen centuries.

You will meet desert fathers who lived atop pillars for decades, hermits who advised emperors from mud huts, and monks whose discipline shaped monastic life from Egypt to Ireland. Some episodes follow a single father's journey from wealth to wilderness; others trace how the desert communities grew, fractured, and endured. All of them treat the desert fathers as what they were: radicals who tested the outer limits of the human spirit.

If you are drawn to stories of extreme devotion told with rigor, this is built for you. New episodes drop regularly, each one a self-contained life from the desert. Subscribe now so the next of the Medieval Christian History lands the moment it goes live.Copyright OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT Catechesi ed evangelismo Cristianesimo Spiritualità
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  • The Sentinel Post That Cost John Bunyan a Life

    The Sentinel Post That Cost John Bunyan a Life
    Sep 30 2026
    A tinker faces twelve years in prison for preaching without a license, leaving his blind child without a provider. This is the cost of his faith.

    The Sentinel Post That Cost John Bunyan a Life

    This episode explores the early life of John Bunyan, from his humble beginnings in Bedfordshire to his service in the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War. We delve into the choices that shaped his path and the profound impact they had on his family and future.

    Person: John Bunyan
    Date: 1628 (baptism)
    Location: Elstow, Bedfordshire
    Event: English Civil War
    Status: Tinker, Parliamentary soldier

    - John Bunyan was baptized on November 30, 1628, in Elstow, Bedfordshire.
    - His family, though described by Bunyan as "low," owned land and property in Elstow.
    - In the summer of 1644, Bunyan's mother and sister died, and his father quickly remarried.
    - At approximately sixteen, Bunyan enlisted in the Parliamentary army and served at Newport Pagnell garrison.
    - During his military service, Bunyan recounted an incident where another soldier took his sentinel post and was subsequently shot dead.

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    15 min
  • He Sold a Slave, Raised a Nation's Clergy, Then Outlived Everything

    He Sold a Slave, Raised a Nation's Clergy, Then Outlived Everything
    Sep 29 2026
    An Episcopal bishop knocks on British doors with one letter to raise funds for frontier clergy - what did it cost him?

    He Sold a Slave, Raised a Nation's Clergy, Then Outlived Everything

    In this episode, we follow Philander Chase from a New Hampshire farmhouse to frontier pulpits and back across the Atlantic, tracking how he built churches and seminaries and the personal losses that shadowed each triumph. What choices did he make on the road to founding clergy for the American frontier?

    Person: Philander Chase
    Date: December 14, 1775 (birth)
    Location: Cornish, New Hampshire; Liverpool; Ohio; New Orleans; Hartford
    Event: 1823 fundraising trip to England with one letter of introduction

    - Born the youngest of fourteen, Chase left his Congregational family after discovering the Book of Common Prayer at Dartmouth.
    - Ordained deacon May 10, 1798, Chase served a frontier circuit across New York State from 1798-1804.
    - In 1805 he moved to New Orleans, founded a church, ran a school, bought a nineteen-year-old enslaved man named Jack for $500, and three months later Jack escaped to Liverpool.
    - After relocating to Hartford (calling it his "Sunshine Years"), Chase later moved west, preaching in Ohio in 1817 and chairing the first Ohio Episcopal convention in 1818.
    - In October 1823, with no institutional mandate and only a senator’s letter of introduction, Chase sailed to England and raised $30,000 from British donors for a college in Ohio.

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    17 min
  • The Foreign Office's "no" cost George Bell everything

    The Foreign Office's "no" cost George Bell everything
    Sep 28 2026
    A bishop carries a plot to kill Adolf Hitler to the British Foreign Office, which waits 30 days before saying no. This decision costs him everything.

    The Foreign Office's "no" cost George Bell everything

    This episode explores the life of George Bell, a bishop who became deeply involved in a plot against Adolf Hitler. It examines the consequences of the British Foreign Office's decision and the impact it had on Bell's career and legacy.

    Person: George Bell
    Date: 1942
    Location: Sweden, British Foreign Office
    Event: Plot to kill Adolf Hitler

    - Bishop George Bell met a theologian in neutral Sweden in 1942 to discuss a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
    - Bell carried the details of this plot to the British Foreign Office, which delayed its response for 30 days.
    - Bell was a prominent candidate for Archbishop of Canterbury in 1944, having sheltered Jewish refugees and opposed the firebombing of German cities.
    - He was ordained in 1907 and assigned to industrial parishes in Leeds, learning to engage with workers and institutional authority.
    - Bell became personal chaplain to Archbishop Randall Davidson in 1914, participating in critical wartime operations like refugee crises and prisoner exchanges.

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    19 min
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