The Book Club: The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan with Allie Stuckey

The Book Club

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🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Christians have been mocked, humiliated, and persecuted for their faith for hundreds of years. The Pilgrim’s Progress, written by Puritan preacher John Bunyan while he was in prison for holding religious services, is an encouraging reminder that difficulties and hardships are part and parcel with a life of faith. Allie Stuckey joins Michael Knowles to discuss how this seminal 17th-century work can embolden and strengthen Christians to endure the hardships of today. Donate today to help keep PragerU podcasts and videos free! PragerU.com/donate

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Book Club. I'm Michael Knowles. This month we will be reading one of the most popular books
0:18.0	ever in the history of the English language. This is one of the
0:25.0	history English language. This is one of the best-selling
0:27.0	Christian book in English,
0:29.0	the Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan.
0:32.0	I will be joined by my friend Ali Stucky, host of the Relatable
0:36.9	Podcast. Allie, thank you for being here. Yes, thanks for having me. I am not flattering
0:40.7	you because flattery is a terrible temptation as we will learn in the
0:44.2	book but this book the pilgrim's progress is not only one of the most popular
0:48.8	Christian books ever not only one of the most popular books ever, but it is specifically a very Protestant book.
0:55.9	And not just any kind of Protestant, it is a Puritan book.
0:58.9	A book written by a Baptist preacher named John Bunyan, a man who was persecuted, not by the Catholics,
1:06.3	but by the Anglicans in England.
1:08.0	He was imprisoned.
1:09.0	He wrote this book, in prison.
1:11.0	And I thought, listen, I'm a papist I'm a Catholic
1:14.1	how am I supposed to lead a discussion of the pilgrim's progress I said I need to bring on
1:18.6	a Protestant and true I said truly one of the smartest most articulate.
1:25.0	Oh, thank you.
1:26.0	Best, most coherent Protestants I know,
1:28.0	my friend Jones Ducky, is going to come on.
1:30.0	So before we get into the theology of it all,
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