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the membership with Dr. Jared M. Phillips (ep 3, 33).

2026-10-2701:18:49

The season comes home. After a reckoning with what the show found in its own region, a sociologist's definition of white Christian nationalism, and a national practitioner's answer to it, the underview returns to the ground with the one guest who has been with it since season two. Dr. Jared Phillips is a historian at the University of Arkansas, director of its new Ozark Studies program, and a sixth-generation Ozarker who farms above the Muddy Fork of the Illinois River with draft horses. He g...

the more perfect union with Rev. Adam Russell Taylor (ep 3, 32).

2026-10-2001:20:56

Rev. Adam Russell Taylor is president of Sojourners, the national Christian organization that has spent five decades insisting that biblical faith and social justice belong in the same sentence. His story starts with a wedding. His parents married in 1968, one year after the Supreme Court said a Black woman from segregated Louisville and a white man from outside Cleveland were allowed to marry each other, in a case that carried the name of a couple called Loving. Their son grew up convinced t...

the christian nationalism with Dr. Andrew Whitehead (ep 3, 31).

2026-10-1301:06:58

Arkansas ranks first in the nation in support for Christian nationalism. More than half the state qualifies as supporters or sympathizers in the Public Religion Research Institute's fifty-state study, and almost six in ten white Arkansans do. This episode sits down with the scholar whose research built the scale behind those numbers. Dr. Andrew Whitehead is a sociologist at Indiana University Indianapolis, co-director of the Association of Religion Data Archives, and author with Samuel Perry ...

the reckoning with Monica Kumar & Mike Rusch (ep 3, 30).

2026-10-0701:23:01

In the first week of Season 3, before a single faith leader had been interviewed, a post appeared in a local political group warning people to listen to this podcast with discernment. It quoted the opening episode four times and named co-host Monica Kumar's work in belonging and equity as the lens that would shape what followed. A few weeks later, listeners began sending the opposite message. That the show was platforming churches. That it never asked who those churches actually welcome. That...

the buddist community with Sư Cô Janna Panna (ep 3, 29).

2026-09-2901:03:11

Episode Webpage: https://www.theunderview.com/the-buddhist-community-with-su-co-janna-panna About the underview: The underview is an exploration of the development of our Communal Theology of Place viewed through the medium of bikes, land, and people to discover community wholeness. Send us a Voice Message at https://www.theunderview.com/ Website: ⁠⁠theunderview.com⁠⁠ Follow us on Instagram: ⁠⁠@underviewthe Host: @mikerusch

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