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 out. 13 chapters, study guide, practices inventory, 30+ book bibliography. A new section on Christi...
May 09, 2026•1 min•Season 9Ep. 282
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 same name. He works under a pseudonym for reasons that should be obvious after listening. In this con...
May 01, 2026•2 hr 45 min•Season 9Ep. 281
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 — tracing the line from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion through Bill Cooper and David Icke into the ...
Apr 24, 2026•2 hr 36 min•Season 9Ep. 280
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 Restore7 and founder of Present Witness, a ministry addressing modern theological questions around Is...
Apr 17, 2026•2 hr 3 min•Season 9Ep. 279
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 supremacist ideology into the modern Reformed world. Three figures anchor the chapter. Wyatt Kaldenber...
Apr 10, 2026•2 hr 33 min•Season 9Ep. 278
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 philosophical traditions that have walled Jewish people off from considering Jesus as Messiah for cen...
Apr 03, 2026•1 hr 53 min•Season 9Ep. 277
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. That challenge sent a structural engineer from Southern California on a 20-year journey into the heart...
Mar 27, 2026•2 hr 33 min•Season 9Ep. 276
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-Nazis deliberately infiltrated youth music culture to radicalize alienated young men — through concert...
Mar 20, 2026•2 hr 57 min•Season 9Ep. 275
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 teacher, writer, and longtime pastor’s wife who has helped generations of women and families cultivat...
Mar 13, 2026•59 min•Season 9Ep. 274
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 into a mystical religious system. The discussion traces the development of post-war Nazi mythology — fr...
Mar 06, 2026•2 hr 28 min•Season 9Ep. 273
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 own faith. Our conversation moves beyond headlines and memes to examine the deeper spiritual and in...
Feb 27, 2026•3 hr 31 min•Season 9Ep. 272
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 explore Puritan spirituality, the role of suffering in spiritual formation, mentorship across generatio...
Feb 20, 2026•58 min•Season 9Ep. 271
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, mysticism, and occult spirituality —rejecting Christianity while absorbing pagan mythology, cyclical ...
Feb 13, 2026•1 hr 45 min•Season 9Ep. 270
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, or sinful? If therapy cannot judge goals, what kind of formation is actually taking place? From the...
Feb 06, 2026•48 min•Season 9Ep. 269
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 movement, but as a religious system, complete with ritual, myth, demonology, and a vision of racial salvat...
Jan 30, 2026•2 hr 47 min•Season 9Ep. 268
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 diagnosis. Will explains how figures like Andrew Tate vacuumed attention and monetized grievance, h...
Jan 23, 2026•1 hr 51 min•Season 9Ep. 267
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 increasingly became substitutes for real-world formation and authority. From the influence of figures like Jo...
Jan 16, 2026•2 hr•Season 9Ep. 266
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 its current crisis — and why sincere believers are often caught between bad leadership and bad poli...
Jan 09, 2026•2 hr 12 min•Season 9Ep. 265
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, Philip Rieff, and Augustine , Will and Eddie explore why Gen Z men are drawn toward radical politi...
Jan 02, 2026•1 hr 19 min•Season 9Ep. 264
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, explain why I’m investing more deeply in Substack, and share what led me to begin mentoring men directl...
Dec 28, 2025•16 min•Season 9Ep. 263
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 modern education system, discuss social-emotional learning, AI, homeschooling, and classical education, a...
Dec 19, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 9Ep. 262
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 counterfeit gospel — one that dissolves responsibility, cannot handle guilt or shame, and increasing...
Dec 12, 2025•1 hr 53 min•Season 9Ep. 261
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 workplace neutrality, the $800,000 difference between A-level and B-level engineers, and why young men ...
Dec 05, 2025•58 min•Season 9Ep. 260
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 conservative McDonald's Christianity, arguing that neither understands God's design for human flourishing th...
Nov 28, 2025•1 hr 57 min•Season 9Ep. 259
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 first-generation Christian parents to his fifth great-grandchild, and offers practical advice to youn...
Nov 21, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 9Ep. 258
Legendary pastors Joel Beeke, Geoffrey Thomas, Rick Phillips, and Paul Smalley unite to discuss their groundbreaking collaborative work "The Redeemed Man" - a comprehensive guide addressing biblical masculinity across every domain of life. The conversation features powerful testimonies spanning seven decades of faithful ministry, from Thomas's 1950 conversion to Phillips's dramatic transformation at age 30. These four distinguished Reformed pastors reveal the vision behind creating a book that e...
Nov 14, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Season 9Ep. 257
Adam Coleman is a husband, father and author of The Children We Left Behind who speaks openly about fatherlessness, marriage and masculinity. In this conversation, Coleman exposes the growing problem of Christians In Name Only (CINOs), where people weaponize Christian rhetoric without living out the faith, driving seekers away from Christ. The discussion challenges victim ideologies in both feminism and the Manosphere, reveals why online dating creates resentment toward the opposite sex, and dem...
Nov 07, 2025•1 hr 32 min•Season 9Ep. 256
Rob Ager is a film analyst who reveals Hollywood's deliberate destruction of classic cinema culture. In this conversation he exposes how modern filmmakers no longer care about making good movies but instead seek to destroy traditional storytelling and values. The episode explores how scientists in the 1960s sought God through AI and alien contact, paralleling themes in Kubrick's 2001. Ager also discusses how Hollywood accepts negative spirituality like demons while rejecting positive religious t...
Oct 31, 2025•3 hr 12 min•Season 9Ep. 255
Melissa Dougherty is a Christian apologist with nearly 400,000 YouTube subscribers and over 18 million video views. In this conversation, she unpacks her groundbreaking book "Happy Lies" which exposes the New Thought movement—a spiritual philosophy most Christians have never heard of yet encounter constantly. Melissa reveals how this century-old movement has infiltrated American evangelicalism, progressive Christianity, and secular self-help culture while masquerading as biblical truth. Her pers...
Oct 24, 2025•1 hr 38 min•Season 9Ep. 254
Nathan Spearing is a 13-year U.S. Army Special Operations veteran and founder of a tactical training facility in North Carolina. In this conversation he breaks down Pete Hegseth's explosive speech to military generals, shares his analysis of the Charlie Kirk assassination using construction modeling software, discusses the crisis of emotional masculinity in conspiracy theories, and calls for young Christian men to step up while older leaders step back. The episode tackles military standards, chu...
Oct 17, 2025•1 hr 58 min•Season 9Ep. 253
