host: you are also the author of this book, apostles of reason: the crisis of authority in american evangelicalism . what isval po has to contend with this tour ran some scholars haver tried to evangelicalism asset checklist of shared doctrine of of born-again conversion experience bohaiin view of the authority of the bible and that is helpful but i was trying to find a definition to allow me to crawl and to speak pentecost goals and to agree on a list of doctrines as the set of shared questions of. i found myself focusing on the questions rather than the answers. host: to have to bebi conservative to bet al evangelical? guest: not politically i use a loosely but to invest in the traditional orientation for the authority a of the up by paul. and wrestling with three major concerns or anxieties with the transition. the first is how you keep faith and reason joint as one way to unify the world. the second is to cultivate a relationship with the defined. and how you r
learned to read to trying to read that book highlight the pitchers and the maps and that foot tree on the civil war. host: you did not grow up in the south. guest: no. new york. host: what made you interested in the confederacy? guest: i always had an interest rate early books roland the union, sherman s are made them black soldiers with whites officers and i wrote to a book about partners in command about the relationships with civil war of eaters then went into the confederacy because i steadied the relationship and his relationship. that was the base easy transition. host: before we get into your most recent book. [applause] but professor how about some macro figures? how many people died or serve double sides? the union to point to 5 million service that confederacy around but the statistics are based on census records and it is a very dicey to rely on that evidence but the best bet to have you heard fatalities in to do that the evidence but they keep very cou
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