Dec 30, 2022
In a famous 1529 essay, the Protestant reformer Martin Luther described the Turks as the “rod of the wrath of the Lord our God” -- but Luther isn’t alone in playing up the violent tendencies of an entire nation. Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Bulgarians, Russians, Serbs, and Arabs all have sayings about the Turks,...
Dec 26, 2022
The last five years have been anything but easy for Armenia. After a 2020 war, a 2022 invasion, and most recently, a blockade of 120,000 Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenians today are desperately seeking allies to ensure their security and independence in their ancestral homeland. This week, Robert and Mariam sit...
Dec 19, 2022
“Armenia is not even a colony, it is not even worthy of being a servant.” That’s the president of Azerbaijan, Armenia’s Turkish Muslim neighbor, telling the world in 2015 how he really feels about the Christian nation on his western border. Today, as this episode goes live, Azerbaijan is besieging 120,000...
Dec 12, 2022
The oldest Christian nation in the world is about to celebrate the birth of Jesus amid growing tensions with its Muslim-majority neighbor, Azerbaijan. How Armenia – a tiny country of 3 million people sandwiched between Azerbaijan, Turkey, Georgia, Russia, and Iran – can survive the chaos of regional politics is...
Dec 5, 2022
Is the Israel we knew gone? In this bonus episode, Robert offers his thoughts on the question after a month-long investigation into Israel's recent elections. Along the way, he touches on Israel's religious and cultural evolution, the power of meta-narratives in politics, the two faces of the Jewish tradition, and...