Hello there and welcome to the thinking fellows podcast.. My name is Caleb and today I'm joined by

Dr. Rod Rosenblatt, Scott Keith, Adam Francisco, and Dan VanVoris. We are doing episode three of Christianity

in America today. Dan has provided us with a pretty, I think a pretty comprehensive outline here.

We're going to get through this in about six episodes total.

So at the end of today, we'll be at the halfway mark.

And we're just jumping into different periods of American history, which is fun.

And we've also had just so many listeners sort of ask,

hey, why don't Lutherans have a lot of influence in American Christianity?

And I think partially this show will, you know, unfold that answer.

I'd be very happy to answer that at some point. There's a number of reasons why Lutherans don't have

much of a story. Not to say they don't, but one of the reasons is the fascination in American history with the

Northeast. And so much of American history is told a sort of northeastern history, and that

bothers people to no end in the South. It should bother people in the Midwest, except they're

too, you know, polite to say anything. But it's the same, that idea that we just tend to not tell the stories.

But when you look at the history of Lutheranism, you know, from the Mullenbergs who were very

active in the American Revolution, I mean, there are a number of stories. But I think a secondary

sort of line to that is also just the nature of Lutheranism and two kingdoms. And I think there's a reason why we look so quiet. And I think that's somewhat by design. Mark Knoll took that on one time in an article, I think, at first things.

Called Unremarkably Lutheran, I believe, was the name of that. Yeah, some article that was written with that.

That it's by design that we're not super involved.

But of course, as Americans, this story, even if it's not Lutheran, is still our story

because it's affected all of us and it's affected our parishes and everyone we know who goes to church.

So the main topic for today is the Great Awakening. But before we dive right in, I just wanted to promote some of the other things going on at 1517 right now. Generally, across a podcast network,

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