Chronology, Community, and Freedom

If you've ever read the books of Chronicles in the Old Testament, you may have wondered, "Are these nine chapters of genealogy really necessary?" The short answer is, yes, they are. God put the boring bits in the Bible on purpose. He cares about keeping track of the years and dates; chronology, the precise ordering of events, is necessary to history--necessary to finding meaning in a sequence of events. In today's episode we take a look at the French Revolution and the Cambodian Genocide as attempts at human autonomy over history.

This Episode Features: The French Revolution, The Cambodian Genocide, And The Most Boring Book In The Bible; That's What Gods Do; The Year Five Million; People Are Indeed That Picky; Shakespeare Throws A Wrench; Fencing, Fighting, Torture, Revenge...; Square Roots Are Like The Berlin Wall; and Bakersfield Country.

Transcript: https://bit.ly/39X1Hb3-htz-31

Links:

1984 - George Orwell: https://amzn.to/3fZ58Qr

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley: https://amzn.to/2BFaHET

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien: https://amzn.to/3bDwNUO

The Mandalorian (2019-): https://bit.ly/2PqJfhG

Galaxy Quest (1999): https://amzn.to/33trIh0

A Theological Interpretation of American History - Gregg Singer: https://amzn.to/3gvk6hw

1066 And All That - W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman: https://amzn.to/3gxchIc

The Wheel on the School - Meindert DeJong: https://amzn.to/31h4b0c

Narrative Trauma and Civil War History Painting, or Why Are These Pictures so Terrible? - Steven Conn: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3590666?seq=1

Recos:

Paul Revere: Boston Patriot - Augusta Stevenson: https://amzn.to/31jHfx5

Annie Oakley: Young Markswoman - Ellen Wilson: https://amzn.to/3kezFMP

Anything Can Happen - George Papashvily and Helen Waite Papashvily: https://amzn.to/39Yz50Y