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The underview is an exploration of the shaping of our place viewed through the medium of bikes, land, and people to discover community wholeness. The underview is a series of discussions within and about the community of Northwest Arkansas. The underview explores our collective understanding and beliefs about the place we live. These discussions will include topics that are foundational to the identity of our region, the history of our communities, the truth of conflict with the land and its people, and the current challenges and opportunities for our community.

Recent Episodes

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

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...

80 MIN

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

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 ...

66 MIN

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

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...

83 MIN

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

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

63 MIN

the freewill baptist church with Ben Gibson (ep 3, 28).

Pastor Ben Gibson did not grow up in a Christian home. His earliest memories are the police at the house, and then a kitchen in Colorado where his father, newly and radically saved, poured every ounce of alcohol down the drain. The whole family was baptized together in 1984. Fifteen years later, on the Saturday night before Easter, a patch of ice took his father's life, and a calling arrived that he can only describe as a compulsion. Since 2011 he has pastored Phillips Chapel Free Will Baptis...

106 MIN