The Will Spencer Podcast

A brief personal update from Will: our son Isaiah was born on Monday morning. Mom, baby, and big sister are all doing well. Praise God. New episodes will resume in a week or two. Thank you for your patience, and for your prayers. The Will Spencer Podcast was formerly known as "The Renaissance of Men." EXITING THE NEW AGE COURSE I spent twenty years in the New Age. This is what I learned on the way...

Hitler Hated Christ has spent the better part of a decade compiling primary historical sources documenting Adolf Hitler's hostility toward Christ and Christianity, and refuting the Holocaust denial and revisionism circulating in dissident-right and online hyper-nationalist Christian spaces. He runs the Substack Hitler Hated Christ, the YouTube channel @NotOurGuy, and engages daily on X under the s...

Something has been poisoning the conservative movement for thirty years. It's in the podcasts, the reels, and the content you consume every day. And there is a documented trail from a forged document designed to justify genocide straight to your Spotify subscriptions. Black Sun Session 7. In this episode, Will Spencer covers Chapter 14 of Black Sun — Conspiracy Beliefs and the New World Order — tr...

Christopher Kuehl has spent nearly two decades watching how Christians lose their bearings over the question of Israel and the Jewish people. Christopher has traveled to more than thirty countries, lived in Israel multiple times, worked as a photographer for Sony and Rolling Stone, and founded four technology companies. He is currently earning his master's degree in theology and serves as COO of R...

This isn't Reformed. It's a prison cell. A convicted murderer rewrote the Beatitudes with Thor's hammer, ran a publishing house from federal prison, and his ideas are now circulating in Reformed Christian spaces. Black Sun Session 6. In this episode, Will Spencer covers Chapter 13 of Black Sun by historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke — Nordic Racial Paganism — and traces the direct line from white su...

Dr. Brian J. Crawford is the Director of Digital Evangelism for Chosen People Ministries and the author of The Scandal of a Divine Messiah: A Response to Maimonidean and Kabbalistic Challenges to the Incarnation . This is part two of two. In part one, Brian shared his 20-year journey from a beach in Tel Aviv to the streets of Orthodox Brooklyn. In this episode, we get into his book — and the two p...

Dr. Brian J. Crawford is the Director of Digital Evangelism for Chosen People Ministries, which has been evangelizing Jewish people for more than 130 years. He is also the author of The Scandal of a Divine Messiah: A Response to Maimonidean and Kabbalistic Challenges to the Incarnation . In 2005, a Jewish man on a Tel Aviv beach told Brian he had no business explaining the Hebrew Bible to Jews. Th...

This isn't fringe. It's in your feed. White power music, Nazi Satanism, and a fake Christian theology are targeting young men — and most churches can't see it. Black Sun Session 5. In this episode, Will Spencer walks through three of the darkest chapters in Black Sun by historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke — and connects each one to what is spreading online right now. Chapter 10 documents how neo-Na...

Joel and Mary Beeke have spent decades studying, teaching, and living what the Bible says about marriage. In this conversation we explore the biblical foundation of a strong marriage, why many couples slowly drift apart, and how Scripture provides a model for love, respect, friendship, and lifelong commitment. Joel Beeke is a pastor, theologian, and author of more than 100 books. Mary Beeke is a t...

What looks like conspiracy theories or internet extremism often has deeper roots. In this episode, Will Spencer explores Nazi mysticism, Esoteric Hitlerism, and the occult mythology that emerged around Nazi UFOs after World War II. This session is part of his Book Club reading of Black Sun by historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, examining how Nazi ideology survived defeat by transforming itself int...

How do Christians remain faithful when suspicion, conspiracy narratives, and cultural pressure reshape how they see Israel, history, and their neighbors? In this episode, I speak with Luke Moon — pastor, activist, and one of our guides during a recent study trip to Israel — about the religious, historical, and cultural tensions shaping how Christians understand Israel, the Jewish people, and their...

Dr. J. Stephen Yuille joins Will Spencer for a conversation on one of the most misunderstood traditions in Christian history: the Puritans. Often caricatured as cold moralists, the Puritans were in fact pastors of the heart — “physicians of the soul” who endured suffering, cultivated the affections, and pursued holiness with seriousness that still challenges believers today. In this episode we exp...

Modern extremism did not survive by remaining political. It survived by becoming mystical. In this episode, Will Spencer examines how post-war extremist movements transformed themselves into a religious worldview built on myth, mysticism, and occult hierarchy. Rather than remaining tied to historical regimes or discredited ideologies, these movements deliberately rebuilt themselves through myth, m...

What happens when therapy has no way to say a goal is wrong? In this episode, Will Spencer is joined by Dr. Greg Gifford to examine a foundational assumption of modern therapy: that counseling exists to help clients achieve their chosen goals, but without a shared account of moral truth. The conversation begins with a simple but unsettling question: What if a client’s goal is immoral, destructive,...

What looks like online extremism, grievance politics, or internet trolling is something much older, and much darker. In this episode, Will Spencer shares audio from the first two sessions of his Book Club reading Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity by historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. The discussion explores how Nazism functioned not merely as a political moveme...

What happens after you leave the Manosphere? And why did the movement collapse in the first place? In this episode, Bob the Baptist continues his conversation with Will Spencer about what followed his departure from the Manosphere, and how the online masculinity ecosystem began to fracture and mutate in the years that followed. The discussion moves beyond personal story into cultural and spiritual...

What is the Manosphere, and why are so many men drawn to it? In this episode, Bob the Baptist interviews Will Spencer about his journey into — and ultimately out of — the Manosphere, the sprawling online ecosystem of male self-improvement, dating advice, and cultural commentary. The conversation traces how online communities offering guidance on confidence, fitness, success, and identity increasin...

Former pastor Caleb Bobrycki aka "Bob the Baptist" joins Will Spencer to unpack how theology, politics, and culture collided inside modern evangelicalism — and why so many faithful Christians feel stuck in the middle. Description: Former pastor and YouTube creator Bob the Baptist (Caleb Bobrycki) joins Will Spencer for a wide-ranging conversation about how modern Reformed evangelicalism arrived at...

Eddie LaRow joins Will Spencer for a wide-ranging conversation about masculinity, rootlessness, and the collapse of moral authority in modern life. Rather than reacting to headlines or personalities, this episode examines a recurring historical pattern: when men lose roots in family, church, and community, power rushes in to replace authority . Drawing on thinkers such as Max Picard, Robert Nisbet...

In this episode, I share why I’m changing how The Will Spencer Podcast works—and where it’s headed next. After five years of interviews, something has shifted. I talk about moving from a posture of learning into a season of teaching, why interviews will become less frequent, and what kind of original content I’ll be creating going forward. I also introduce a new book club launching in January, exp...

Public school did not fail by accident. It did exactly what it was designed to do. Robert Bortins—CEO of Classical Conversations and co-author of Woke and Weaponized —joins me to explain why education is never neutral, how parental authority was displaced by the state, and why efforts to reform public schooling consistently miss the point. We trace the historical and ideological roots of the moder...

Pastor Matthew Statler is an Army veteran with four Iraq deployments, a former cavalry scout, and a biblical counselor who knows the trauma system from the inside. After years of PTSD diagnoses, alcoholism, and failed therapeutic models, Matthew encountered a biblical theology of suffering that radically transformed his life. In this conversation, we confront the rise of the “Trauma Mindset” as a...

Andrew Crapuchettes is a pioneer in labor market analytics and the visionary founder of Red Balloon, a job platform connecting freedom-loving employers with employees who won't compromise their values. In this conversation, he shares how he transformed from a Silicon Valley entrepreneur to building a company that rejects woke ideology in the workplace. The episode explores the false promise of wor...

Andy Felton is a former nuclear submarine officer and author of "Nourished by Design," exploring faith, food and health from a Christian worldview. His journey from personal health struggles to writing a comprehensive theology of nutrition reveals how the secular wellness space has captured territory the church abandoned. The conversation challenges both progressive food co-op culture and conserva...

Doug Wilson is a Reformed pastor in Moscow, Idaho, and author of over 100 books on theology, culture, and family. In this conversation, he discusses his recent whirlwind of mainstream media appearances including CNN, The New York Times, and his conversation with Sam Harris. Wilson explains why the media's panic reveals a shifted Overton window, shares wisdom on generational faithfulness from his f...