For the final episode of season one, we tackle a topic close to many of our hearts. The civil rights movement and its connection to religion! With this one we are using two different sources, two recordings (because one of us forgot to record) (looking at you Tristan), as well as finishing off with final words for this season. Will Nick cry? Will Austin make fun of Christianity again? Will Tristan make fun of Christianity again? Find out this time, on Crossing the Streams!  Works Cited Chappell, David L. "Religious Revivalism in the Civil Rights Movement." African American Review 36, no ..read more

This episode of Crossing the Streams leads us into a very peculiar situation. Are we communist? Are we Christian folks (like Nick), Atheists (like Tristan), or Jewish (like Austin). The world seems to have a color scheme going and religion is all for it! References: Kirby, Dianne. 2017. The Cold War and American Religion. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Oxford Research. https://oxfordre.com/religion/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-398 (3 June, 2021 ..read more

This time on crossing the streams! The boys get together to discuss how American Christians reacted to the holocaust. Using resources from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum the boys tackle a somber topic that should be said. Thank you all for a little more somber and a little more respectful approach than the usual Crossing the Streams norm. Thank you! Works Cited: Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States. “American Christians, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2018. https://perspectives.ushmm.org/coll ..read more

This time on the Crossing the Streams podcast, the boys discuss the social gospel during the progressive era. What did it do, how did it do it, and Christians aren’t the bad guys this time? With the world slowly progressing to WW1 the boys are starting to see the good sides of Christianity. Does Austin finally understand the world? Does Nicholas get to be a good guy? And is Tristan finally relevant? Find out as they discuss the article The Social Gospel and the Progressive Era by Bradley W. Batemen. Works Cited: Bateman, Bradley W. “The Social Gospel and the Progressive Era.” Divining Americ ..read more

This time on the Crossing the Streams, the boys discuss Roman Catholicism coming to the United States from 1850-1906. Why do the Christians hate each other? Does Austin become self-aware about Judaism during a statistical point? Does Nick start to understand why Christianity is weird? Does Tristan realize that agnostics are a minority at this point? All the while they discuss the article Roman Catholics and Immigration in Nineteenth-Century America, The Nineteenth Century, Divining America: Religion in American History by Julie Byrne. Works Cited: Byrne, Julie. 2015. Roman Catholics and Immi ..read more

This week on Crossing the Streams, the boys come together to talk about how people used the bible to support their opinions on slavery. How far can you take Hebrew before Austin screams? How far can Christianity go before Nicholas Screams? How much religion does there need to be before Tristan screams? Well, here we are for number 3! Topic picked as a group; podcast edited by Nicholas; description written by Austin. Works Cited: Morrison, L., n.d. The Religious Defense of American Slavery Before 1830. Atlas, pp.16-29 ..read more

This episode, the boys come together to discuss the change in Judaism before and after the revolutionary war. The Jewish people who migrated to the Americas may start off like their European counterparts, but what happens next? Austin, Nicholas, and Tristan come together with the help of historical evidence to discuss their opinions and speculations. Sarna, Jonathan D. “THE IMPACT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ON AMERICAN JEWS,” 1981. https://www.brandeis.edu/hornstein/sarna/americanjewishcultureandscholarship/Archive4/TheImpactoftheAmericanRevolutiononAmericanJews.pdf ..read more

In this episode of “Crossing The Streams,” we tackle the Salem Witch Trials! With the help of Alia Stone's "An Invitation to Satan: Puritan Culture and the Salem Witch Trials,"  the three boys tackle the literal witch hunt that was all based around religion. At the start, Nicholas describes what this is all for and what this is all about. Then the boys will put their brains together to discuss if we agree or disagree with the thesis of the text. Does anyone defend the Puritans? Does anyone yell at Austin for making bad jokes? Come on and find out! References: Stone, Alia, "An Invitation ..read more

In this pilot episode, Nick, Tristan, and Austin introduce themselves and what this podcast is all about ..read more