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JB Shreve & the End of History

JB Shreve & the End of History

J.B. Shreve 103 Episodes Oct 14, 2026

JB Shreve & the End of History is a Christian current-events and commentary podcast hosted by J.B. Shreve. Each episode examines world news, geopolitics and cultural trends through what the show calls a Kingdom worldview. Shreve connects global developments to broader historical and biblical themes, offering a faith-based lens on otherwise confusing headlines. The program aims to help listeners find spiritual perspective and hope amid political and social chaos.

Episodes

The Empire - The End of the World As They Knew It
The Empire - The End of the World As They Knew It Oct 14, 2026 00:32:26 What happens when the world you thought you understood suddenly stops making sense?Between 1914 and 1920, Americans watched an extraordinary series of events unfold with almost unimaginable speed. World War I transformed Europe into an industrial killing field. Ancient empires collapsed. Revolution swept through Russia. Jerusalem changed hands. A devastating influenza pandemic circled the globe. A
The Empire - The Road for America to World War I
The Empire - The Road for America to World War I Oct 7, 2026 00:49:57 World War I is often remembered as the prelude to an even greater catastrophe two decades later. But the Great War was far more than an opening chapter to World War II. It was a dividing line in modern history—a moment when an old world began to collapse and a new one struggled to emerge.In this episode of The Empire: A 250 Year American Story, we step back into the years before America became a d
The Empire - American Progress
The Empire - American Progress Sep 30, 2026 00:41:01 What happens when a nation begins to believe that the future can be better than the past—and that it has the power to make it so?At the dawn of the twentieth century, America was being transformed at breathtaking speed. Railroads, factories, enormous corporations, new technologies, and rapidly growing cities were creating wealth and opportunity on a scale previous generations could scarcely have i
The Empire - An Imperial Power
The Empire - An Imperial Power Sep 23, 2026 00:52:15 America has rarely thought of itself as an empire. Empires were something other nations built—European powers that conquered distant peoples, seized territory, and imposed their will on weaker societies. Americans preferred a different story about their own rise: one of expansion, opportunity, liberation, and exceptionalism.But what happens when we look at American history through a different lens
The Empire - The Huddled Masses
The Empire - The Huddled Masses Sep 15, 2026 00:30:48 Between 1850 and 1900, the United States changed at breathtaking speed. Railroads crossed the continent, factories transformed cities, and new industries demanded an enormous workforce. Millions of people, recently freed Americans and immigrants arriving from across Europe and Asia, became essential to that transformation. Yet the opportunities drawing them forward were shadowed by poverty, exhaus
The Empire - The Gilded Age
The Empire - The Gilded Age Sep 10, 2026 00:43:23 After the Civil War, the United States entered an era of breathtaking change. Railroads stitched distant regions together, steel reshaped city skylines, oil transformed daily life, and vast corporations amassed influence on a scale the nation had never seen. Yet beneath the glittering surface of prosperity lay dangerous workplaces, crowded cities, political corruption, economic instability, and a
The Empire - Reconstruction
The Empire - Reconstruction Sep 8, 2026 00:41:11 In the spring of 1865, the Civil War was over, slavery had been abolished, and the United States faced a question as difficult as the conflict itself: what would freedom actually mean? Four million formerly enslaved people entered a society that had denied them education, property, political power, and legal protection. At the same time, a devastated South had to be rebuilt and brought back into t
The Empire - Is America A Christian Nation (Part 2)
The Empire - Is America A Christian Nation (Part 2) Sep 2, 2026 00:41:38 What does it actually mean to call America a “Christian nation”? Is that identity measured by the religious language of its leaders, the beliefs of its citizens, or by something far more demanding? In this episode of The Empire: A 250 Year American Story, we return to one of the central questions running through our exploration of American history: Is America a Christian nation? As the founding ge
The Empire - The Lost Cause
The Empire - The Lost Cause Aug 25, 2026 00:21:27 What happens when a defeated cause survives by reshaping the way generations remember the past? In this episode of our series The Empire: A 250 Year American Story, JB Shreve explores the origins and enduring power of the Lost Cause, the mythology that transformed the Confederacy’s defeat into a story of honor, sacrifice, and regional identity. Drawing on his own experience growing up in the South
The Empire - The Civil War Ends (Sort of)
The Empire - The Civil War Ends (Sort of) Aug 20, 2026 00:28:07 The American Civil War has reached its decisive stage, but victory, peace, and reunion remain far from certain. In this episode of The Empire: A 250 Year American Story, JB Shreve follows the conflict beyond Gettysburg and Vicksburg, as the Union seeks to turn battlefield momentum into a coordinated campaign capable of breaking Confederate resistance. At the center of the story are three commander
The Empire - Emancipation
The Empire - Emancipation Aug 18, 2026 00:32:41 In this episode of The Empire: A 250 Year American Story, JB Shreve explores one of the most pivotal turning points in American history—the Emancipation Proclamation—and the profound questions that surrounded it. Rather than settling for familiar narratives or modern assumptions, this episode takes listeners into the political, moral, and spiritual tensions that defined the Civil War and forever c
The Empire - The Turning Point at Gettysburg
The Empire - The Turning Point at Gettysburg Aug 13, 2026 00:39:47 The Battle of Gettysburg sits at the hinge point of the American story—a moment when the nation’s identity, its moral compass, and even its future seemed to hang in the balance. In this episode, JB Shreve continues The Empire: A 250‑Year American Story by tracing how Gettysburg became far more than a clash of armies. It was a national reckoning. As the episode explains, this was the place where id

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