This is the Baymont podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host Brent Billings. Today we journey from the crusades and head toward the Protestant Reformation.

But on the way, it is good to recognize some names that are often underappreciated. They truly paved the way for some of the formative changes coming to Christendom.

It's right, we got our typical timeline down in the show notes for you. If you would like a visual aid to help you along your journey, we got one there. It's getting a little bit busier now. Brent, the last few timelines have been. I've wanted to point it out, but they've been...

They've... they've illumined my lack of knowledge. Well, yes. And, you know, a general, as we get closer to the modern age, we're going to have more information.

That's correct. We're going to start covering smaller periods of time. Absolutely. And I don't mean us. I mean, globally. We have... We just have so much more history written history recorded. Absolutely.

Speaking of globally, it's worth noting here because we have listeners now kind of like all over the globe. On our journey through session five, I'm not going to try to be comprehensive. And I'm... This was just designed years ago. My audience wasn't a global audience. And I need you to know how just inadequate my international awareness, my...

my prowess, my willing to engage. I am quite a prude when it comes to being comfortable. And I lead these trips to Israel and Turkey. And it gives people the impression that I'm this real adventurer.

This real biblical crocodile Dundee character. Yes. But just not the case for me. There's so much I don't know. And I am speaking about and I am speaking from.

And I am largely speaking to my Western American evangelical mostly context. And I just want to say that upfront. And I'll probably say it again as we get closer to the end here.

Because at some point all these different streams of history are going to start to diverge. They're going to go different places.

Even at our East West schism in the last couple episodes, we've lost some of our listeners. And they would have their own history to tell. And I just want to apologize for that. I would not even begin to know how to speak about other periods of history.

So I'm hoping that maybe there will be some similarities and some things that God is still going to do and teach us through this discussion.

But we're largely going to follow a stream of history that brings us to where I sit today.

And when when you need another discussion, please create your own podcast and your own discussion and add it to this journey so that you have something that's more applicable and appropriate to who you are and where you are from.

All right. Good disclaimer there. We'll do that again.

But Chris and dumb emerges from the period of the crusades and horrible shape. And we do mean that. Chris and dumb is completely beaten up. It is completely broken.

Having spent everything they had on war and like literally they spent like every last dollar on war and conquest. They now turn their sights toward needing to rebuild.

And Brent, you pointing this out, the crusades were largely what? Not so successful. Yeah. Do not accomplish what they sought to do.

Yeah. And even what they sought to do would be up for debate. Like what were the objectives of the crusades? And I suggested that there was a whole lot more behind the scenes.

However intentional that was or unintentional. But you know, if the objectives were to spread, you know, to spread Christian dumb to spread faith to make more believers.

To own certain plots of ground like the crusade were not effective by any measuring stick. So so having been ineffective and slaughtering people for three or four centuries.

Very effective and successful in killing people. Right. Right. So successful in basically anything else. Yeah. Right. Very successful in all the ways you wouldn't want to be and not much success in the ways that God would call us to be.

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