Whittaker Chambers
145Faith and Despair
21 Nov 2022
25:59¶ 98
“Whittaker Chambers was a man who in the 1950s got pulled into the Communist conspiracy. He was an educated man, a writer, but he…”
26:26¶ 99
“It wasn’t that communism looked good, it just looked like the only answer on the table, and he joined the Communist party. In the…”
26:53¶ 102
“As you say, he saw communism as the answer to the great crisis that he saw. He’d call it a crisis of history, where…”
135Conspiracy Theory
12 Sep 2022
39:30¶ 128
“He had been an active agent for Russia and came to Christ, and then blew the whistle on all of his friends, who the…”
40:08¶ 129
“As I remember the story, it all began for him when he was sitting at the breakfast table with his little girl and she…”
38:35¶ 126
“We can think of Whittaker Chambers, having been part of an actual Communist conspiracy, who converts to Christianity and what does he do? He…”
48Social Vision and the Ten Commandments (Part 1)
29 Nov 2020
38:11¶ 110
“I mentioned offline that I’ve been reading Whittaker Chambers’ book Witness. This was a key theme for him, because for him, when he was…”
38:42¶ 111
“But what he gradually came to realize was Communism, what was brought him into the communist fold was this commitment that this vision of…”
39:30¶ 113
“Right, which is why Whittaker Chambers says it’s a crisis of faith.”
15The Babylon Project
12 Apr 2020
57:28¶ 187
“Well, he was an American spy working for Russia. He was an American, is my point, not a Russian, but he worked for the…”
57:44¶ 188
“I have not read the book, unfortunately. I’ve heard about it since I was a kid. I’m told that at one point his little…”
58:08¶ 189
“He played a key role in stopping Marxist influence, although he bore the heat for it for a long time and is largely forgotten…”