land, people, and movement shaping belonging in the unsettled Arkansas Ozarks.
Ozark historian Dr. Jared Phillips brings the season home. How the faith of the Arkansas hills moved from resisting power to seeking it, what the 1970s newcomers & the corporate boom changed, why nostalgia is more dangerous than Christian nationalism, & who is allowed to ask what this place becomes.
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Sojourners president Rev. Adam Russell Taylor traces the beloved community from Loving v. Virginia to today, names Christian nationalism's local reach into Northwest Arkansas, and offers guardrails for faith in public life.
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Arkansas leads the nation in Christian nationalism. Sociologist Andrew Whitehead, author of Taking America Back for God and American Idolatry, defines the framework, traces its history, and names what to listen for in our pews, schools, and civic life.
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the underview co-hosts answer a season of critique from both directions, explain the method behind twenty five faith conversations, play five unnamed Northwest Arkansas pulpits they would not interview, and name what they kept running into. White Christian nationalism, and what comes next.
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Every tradition this season put faith at the center. A Vietnamese Buddhist nun in Fayetteville does not. Sư Cô Janna Panna on why faith ends in wisdom, the debt of gratitude she owes strangers, the hand-built statue of compassion on Crossover Road, and why compassion is a verb.
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A Springdale pastor who is working for a Christian nation from his own pulpit lays out the vision with rare candor. Ben Gibson of Phillips Chapel Free Will Baptist on free grace, family discipleship, and what a nation brought back to Christ would ask of Northwest Arkansas.
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