Life and Books and Everything The Most Influential Family in America with Obbie Tyler Todd
Before the Bushes or Clintons, before the Kennedy or Kardashians, there were the Beechers—a sprawling family of preachers, suffragists, abolitionists, and moral crusaders that defined (and exemplified) America as much as any single family in the nineteenth century. Join Kevin as he interviews Obbie Tyler Todd, a pastor and professor, about his new biography of the Beechers (LSU Press). From patriarch, Lyman Beecher, to the famous novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, to the most famous pastor of his age, Henry Ward Beecher, this episode explores the crazy and controversial life of Lyman Beecher, his three wives (not at the same time), and their thirteen children.
Chapters:
0:00 Sponsors
2:00 Introductions
5:37 The Beecher Family and Moral Influence
10:45 Three Themes of the Beecher Family
21:36 Beecherism and Controversy
28:07 The Fate of the Nation and Presbyterianism
36:49 Other Beeches
50:38 Harriet Beecher Stowe
54:43 Henry Ward Beecher
1:09:11 The Beecher Legacy
Books & Everything:
Be Thou My Vision: A Liturgy for Daily Worship
The Supremacy of God in Preaching