Robert Thuerck

No Character Limit

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No Character Limit is a podcast to thoughtfully explore interesting and diverse topics without the constraints of character limits or the need to always be right. In an age where nuance is lost, anger and outrage are monetized, and entertainment supersedes knowledge, No Character Limit embraces the lost art of research-based longform discussion. An escape from specialization, compartmentalization, and quantification, join host Robert Thuerck as he dares give voice to thoughts across a spectrum of interests, holistic perspectives, and qualitative measures - without sacrificing expert and profes...

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Robert Thuerck

Episodes

God in the Frontier (Episode 2) - New York: An Old Land, A New Frontier 01.04.2023 56:22

How did one of the most powerful Native American confederations of the Americas give way to European and US encroachment? And how did Christians feel about this shift of power? In this episode we are introduced to the New York frontier and how a little remembered campaign of total destruction - the Sullivan Expedition - led to the fall of Haudenosaunee land. Using local history books we discover h...

God in the Frontier (Episode 1) - Broad Strokes: Fractures in the Prism of Christianity 26.03.2023 1:05:16

What is religion? How are there so many faithful and yet at the same time so much disagreement over how to worship? In the first episode of my book God in the Frontier: The Impact of the 19th Century Burned-Over District and The Psychology of Faith I dive into a very brief history of Christianity from its inception to early 18th century America, setting the background for the rest of the book focu...

The Forging of Humanity 24.03.2023 1:11:18

Ever wonder why animals can live outside 24/7 in the middle of winter while we huddle indoors and turn up the heat? So have I! And so has Harvard Biological Anthropologist Professor Richard Wrangham whose book Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human is the main source of information for this episode. Did we outsmart the rest of the animal kingdom and conquer fire or did we make a Faustian pact wi...

Introduction to No Character Limit 21.03.2023 48:03

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