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Jul 19, 2026 27 min

The Park With the Conqueror's Name

from Between Bread and Stone Hosted by Stephen R. Brewer, PsyD

Balboa Park has been sanctuary, civic icon, Pride gathering place, and a garden carrying the name of a conqueror who never set foot in California. This week on Between Bread and Stone, I trace the story behind that name, cross-examine the Spanish account of violence attributed to Vasco Núñez de Balboa, and ask what happens when empire turns slaughter into divine judgment. The deeper question reaches beyond one park: how do we love places shaped by beauty and blood without allowing either truth to erase the other? You are welcome here. Protected Speech | Views My Own Between Bread and Stone © 2026 Stephen Brewer. All rights reserved. Podcast audio and full text may be quoted for noncommercial purposes with attribution. Gospel text from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Get full access to Drawing the Line at percival84.substack.com/subscribe

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