Triumph of Christianity - Letters & Politics

Professor Bart D. Ehrman is interviewed by Host/Producer Mitch Jeserich on FM 94.1 KPFA on program called "Letters & Politics" on December 25th, 2018 at 10:00am. During this program, Mitch discusses with Bart about his book "The Triumph of Christianity: How A Forbidden Religion Swept the World." We learn how Christianity spread throughout the Western world, and how the Roman Empire went from being a polytheistic pagan society, to a Christian society that persecuted non-Christians.

Program discussed on Bart Ehrman's Foundation Blog: http://ehrmanblog.org/?p=16153

Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He came to UNC in 1988, after four years of teaching at Rutgers University. At UNC he has served as both the Director of Graduate Studies and the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. A graduate of Wheaton College (Illinois), Professor Ehrman received both his Masters of Divinity and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary, where his 1985 doctoral dissertation was awarded magna cum laude.

Mitch Jeserich is a veteran broadcast journalist. He got his start as KPFA’s California State Political Reporter in Sacramento before going to Washington DC to cover the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court between 2003 and 2006. In 2009 Mitch launched a pilot program called Letters from Washington, chronicling the first 100 days of the Obama administration, that would become Letters & Politics.

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