land, people, and movement shaping belonging in the unsettled Arkansas Ozarks.
Monica Kumar's closing reflection on season three of the underview. A non-Christian co-host on what a year at the faith tables of Northwest Arkansas changed. Whiteness as the water, power without villains, silence as politics, charity versus justice, and faith at the ballot box.
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Musician Brian Hirschy, the creative mind behind the season three theme of the underview, on Go Tell It on the Mountain, the static, and Johnny Cash. Faith, doubt, and certainty in Northwest Arkansas, why tension cannot be sung over, prisoners of hope, and a state of grace.
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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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