land, people, and movement shaping belonging in the unsettled Arkansas Ozarks.
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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A Fayetteville faith leader on what it cost to open one door. John Ray of Vine & Branch Church on losing 90% of his congregation over women in ministry and LGBTQ inclusion, naming White Christian Nationalism in Northwest Arkansas, grief, and why he would do it again.
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Inside Bentonville's Hindu temple with chief priest Swamiji Venugopala Swami Gattu. Vedic teaching, the word Hindu, Om, Holi and Deepavali, belonging in the Bible Belt, and a definition of wholeness that begins with the soul. Northwest Arkansas faith, season three.
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