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The Blue Collar Scholar

This podcast will cover the topics covered by the history lectures, sermons, and Bible/theology studies of Will Reitz.

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00:59:09

Ambassador Academy, episode 2: A Jet-Propelled...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/09/21

This episode is a quick overview of the entire Bible, placing the major characters and the 66 books of the Bible in their appropriate place in a mostly chronological survey of the Holy Bible.

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00:50:01

Ambassador Academy, episode 1: Introduction to Theology

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/09/19

In the Fall of 2017 & Spring of 2018, Fellowship Baptist Church of Neosho, Missouri, and its then-pastor Buddy Funk entrusted to me the Sunday nigh worship service, an honor that I still cherish almost a decade later. What I crafted was something I called "Ambassador Academy." 2 Corinthians 5:20 in the English Standard Version reads, "Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God." So, as ambassadors, we should be

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01:31:36

MOVIE ROYAL RUMBLE!!! crossover episode with Trying...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/09/17

The last episode with my friend Aaron was a serious discussion of immigration policy, but this episode is silly pop culture fun! First, we discuss the things we like, the things we're trying to like, and the things we can't like no matter how hard we try. But then, the main event! From the IMDB Top 250 Movies, I took the highest ranking films that (1) we both have watched, & (2) only one film per franchise. 25 MOVIES ENTER!!! ONLY ONE MOVIE WILL PREVAIL!!! Which movie will survive?

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00:32:25

Discussing Immigration with Aaron Carmichael of...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/09/15

This is the third interaction between Southeast Kansas' own The Blue Collar Scholar podcast and Southwest Missouri's own Trying to Like It podcast. In episode 66 (which is episode 84 of Trying to Like It), we talked about music festivals and classic rock. In episode 102 I respond to Trying to Like It episode 109 which talked about conspiracy theories. In this episode, my friend Aaron Carmichael and I had a long discussion that we recorded. I will split the discussion in two. In this episode, we

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01:42:52

What Is Religion?

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/09/04

The plan was to teach a "Comparing World Religions" class this fall. Unfortunately, too few students signed up for the class. Nevertheless, the first lecture was given and recorded, and here it is. In this episode, we ask the question "What is religion?" Each religion answers ten different questions, and each religion answers those questions quite differently. This lecture analyzes how different religions might answer these questions: (1) What is the nature of reality? (2) Does God exist & what is

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01:51:34

World War I

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/29

The plan was to teach a World War II class this fall. Unfortunately, too few students signed up for the class. Nevertheless, the first lecture was given and recorded, and here it is. In this episode, we take a look at the history leading up to "The Great War," and do an ever-so-brief survey of World War I (as the Great War came to be known).

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00:54:35

Panel Discussion about the Fall of Ravi Zacharias...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/17

In 2021, I was invited onto an atheist podcast five times to represent an evangelical perspective. The podcast is known as "Analyzed" and can be found in your podcast distributor. This episode was originally called "Episode #29 Celebrity Moral Failings and Societal Retributivism." This episode has been edited by the Blue Collar Scholar podcast in order to ensure that we would not need an "E" rating, but the views of all panelists have been left unchanged. Therefore, the views expressed in this

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01:11:34

A Pre-Overturn-of-Roe-v.-Wade Panel Discussion on...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/16

In 2021, I was invited onto an atheist podcast five times to represent an evangelical perspective. The podcast is known as "Analyzed" and can be found in your podcast distributor. This episode was originally called "Episode #26 Abortion and Personhood Debate." This episode has been edited by the Blue Collar Scholar podcast in order to ensure that we would not need an "E" rating, but the views of all panelists have been left unchanged. Therefore, the views expressed in this episode do not necessarily

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01:08:34

Panel Discussion on Evangelicalism on the Analyzed...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/15

In 2021, I was invited onto an atheist podcast five times to represent an evangelical perspective. The podcast is known as "Analyzed" and can be found in your podcast distributor. This episode was originally called "Episode #24 Convo with Will About the Atlanta Shooter and Evangelicalism." This episode has been edited by the Blue Collar Scholar podcast in order to ensure that we would not need an "E" rating, but the views of all panelists have been left unchanged. Therefore, the views expressed in

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01:10:29

Panel Discussion on Deconversion from Christianity on...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/14

*** NOTE: This episode features a panelist talking frankly about his history of drug use. This episode may not be suitable for younger viewers. *** In 2021, I was invited onto an atheist podcast five times to represent an evangelical perspective. The podcast is known as "Analyzed" and can be found in your podcast distributor. This episode was originally called "Episode #21 Our Deconversion Stories." This episode has been edited by the Blue Collar Scholar podcast in order to ensure that we would

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02:10:58

Panel Discussion on Sex and Relationships on the...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/13

This is my very first podcast of all time, back in 2021 when I was invited onto an atheist podcast to discuss sex and relationships. The podcast is known as "Analyzed" and can be found in your podcast distributor. This episode was originally called "Episode #19 Challenging a Pastor on Monogamy and Sexuality." This episode has been edited by the Blue Collar Scholar podcast in order to ensure that we would not need an "E" rating, but the views of all panelists have been left unchanged. Therefore, the

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00:36:02

Sermon: The Life of Christ - Resurrection (11-10-2013)

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/10

The final episode in the Life of Christ series is also the last extant recording of any of the sermons I gave at First Baptist Church of Goodman, at least any recordings I am aware of. In this sermon, I explore the resurrection of Christ and why it is such an important event.

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00:35:31

Sermon: The Life of Christ - Death (11-3-2013)

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/09

The death of Jesus Christ is perhaps the most important moment in all history, according to a Christian theological interpretation of history. The death gives the resurrection obvious meaning, it represented (once again) prophecy fulfilled by Jesus, and mostly it was the moment of atonement, went Christ's blood served as the penal substitutionary atonement that makes salvation possible.

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00:31:32

Sermon: The Life of Christ - The Triumphal Entry...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/08

One week before Easter each year, most churches celebrate what is called "Palm Sunday." This commemorates the moment when Jesus enters into Jerusalem to begin his final week of ministry before His death, burial, and Resurrection. As Jesus is entering the city, his followers wave palm branches and lay down their cloaks on the ground to hail His arrival. That is why we call it Palm Sunday; but that is not a term that the Bible uses. Scripture refers to it as a triumphal entry. This event teaches us a

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00:32:25

Sermon: The Life of Christ - Jesus Calls His...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/07

Jesus chose His closest disciples from amongst the working class, the poor, the outcasts, & the unwanted. And Jesus took those men - men that society saw as losers - and the Lord changed the world with these men. Each person who belongs to the family of God with the name Christian applied to our name is a disciple, and it is our duty to worship the Lord and to love the least of these, a.k.a. those that society discards.

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00:39:47

Sermon: The Life of Christ - Birth to Baptism...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/06

At the risk of stating the obvious, Jesus Christ is the most important person in Christian teaching and theology. The Old Testament points to Him, the New Testament documents His ministry and the birth of the Church that exists to worship Him, and of all human history since the First Century has been affected by His life. This sermon is the first in an 8 part series on the Life of Christ. Unfortunately, only 5 of those messages were recorded. This sermon is based off of Matthew chapters 1-4.

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00:39:37

Sermon: The End Times Series: The Tribulation...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/05

This was not the conclusion to the End Times Series, but the last couple of messages were not recorded. So this sermon about the Tribulation is the last teaching about the End Times that we will have on this podcast for a very long time, since I have already covered this topic thoroughly in Sunday School format and in lectures from a Revelation class for senior citizen learners. In this message, I do not attempt to go into every detail about the Tribulation, but rather to hit a few highlights and

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00:37:18

Sermon: End Times Series, part 3: Rapture! (10-14-2012)

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/04

I am always careful when dealing with the topic of the rapture, acknowledging that many (perhaps most) Biblical scholars scoff at this piece of dispensational theology, and I remain extremely non-dogmatic about it. Nevertheless, this episode of the pod makes a Scriptural case for the rapture, but also gives a more expansive set of lessons that we can learn from this bit of doctrine.

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00:44:35

Sermon: End Times Series: Future History 102 - Other...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/03

This episode explores the differences between premillennial dispensationalism, historic premillennialism, and amillennialism. (Unfortunately, the recording got cut off before discussing postmillennialism or preterism.) In short, there are many different interpretations of eschatology. Scripture is not as crystal clear about eschatology as we would like, and therefore, Christians should be very tolerant of other Christians with different interpretations about End Times verses.

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00:38:43

Sermon: End Times Series: Future History 101 - A...

The Blue Collar Scholar ·

2025/08/02

If your exposure to my teaching is mostly limited to the content of this podcast feed, then you might have concluded by now that I am one of the those End Times preachers. After all, I have already done a Bite-Sized Theology series on the End Times, a pandemic-era Sunday School series on the End Times, and a Lifetime Learning college class on eschatology. I ask you to believe that I actually do not fixate on these teachings; I just happen to have recordings of most of my End Times teaching

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