Uncommontary

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Subscribe via Apple Podcasts • Subscribe via Spotify • Subscribe via Google Play Music • Subscribe via RSS • Subscribe via Stitcher • Subscribe via Overcast • Subscribe in Castbox • Subscribe via Android • Subscribe via PodBean • Subscribe via iHeartRadio Jeffrey A. Engel is founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. He has taught at Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, and before joining SMU’s faculty in 2012 taught history and public policy at Texas A&M University while serving as the Verlin and Howard Kruse ’52 Founders Professor and Director of Programming for the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs.  A frequent media contributor on historical and current events, his scholarly and popular articles have appeared in such journals as Diplomatic History; Diplomacy & Statecraft; Enterprise & Society; The International Journal; Air & Space Magazine. Engel is author or co-author of Impeachment: An American History, When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War, America in the World: A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror, The Four Freedoms: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Evolution of an American Idea (ed), and several others. Historian Jeffrey A. Engel joins host Marty Duren to talk about American presidential impeachments and the potential impeachment of Donald Trump.

Subscribe via Apple Podcasts • Subscribe via Spotify • Subscribe via Google Play Music • Subscribe via RSS • Subscribe via Stitcher • Subscribe via Overcast • Subscribe in Castbox • Subscribe via Android • Subscribe via PodBean • Subscribe via iHeartRadio Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist, a professor in the Department of Political Science, a director of the Climate Center, and an associate in the Public Health program of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Texas Tech University. She is also a principal investigator for the Department of Interior’s South-Central Climate Adaptation Science Center. Hayhoe’s masters research focused on understanding human and natural sources of methane, and quantifying the contribution of methane and other non-CO2 greenhouse gases to emission reduction targets. To date, her work has resulted in over 125 peer-reviewed papers, abstracts, and other publications and manykey reports including the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Second National Climate Assessment; the U.S. National Academy of Science report on Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia; and the 2014 Third National Climate Assessment. Climate scientist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe joins host Marty Duren in a conversation about the moral dilemma posed by a changing climate.

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Subscribe via Apple Podcasts • Subscribe via Spotify • Subscribe via Google Play Music • Subscribe via RSS • Subscribe via Stitcher • Subscribe via Overcast • Subscribe in Castbox • Subscribe via Android • Subscribe via PodBean • Subscribe via iHeartRadio Hidetaka Hirota is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, where he teaches North American Studies and Migration Studies. He earned his PhD from Boston College, where his doctoral dissertation won the university’s best humanities dissertation award. It also won the Cromwell Dissertation Prize. He is an historian of the United States with particular interests in immigration, race and ethnicity, law and policy, labor, and transnational/international history. He is the author of the award winning Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy (Oxford University Press, 2017). Hirota frequently contributes editorials on immigration policy and nativism to major newspapers, such as The Washington Post and The Irish Times, and have been interviewed on these topics by various venues, including C-SPAN, The Atlantic, and the Center for American Progress. From Tokyo, Dr. Hidetaka Hirota joins Uncommontary host Marty Duren to discuss the history of immigration in America.

Subscribe via Apple Podcasts • Subscribe via Spotify • Subscribe via Google Play Music • Subscribe via RSS • Subscribe via Stitcher • Subscribe via Overcast • Subscribe in Castbox • Subscribe via Android • Subscribe via PodBean • Subscribe via iHeartRadio Dr. Noah Toly is Director of the Center for Urban Engagement and Professor of Urban Studies and Politics & International Relations at Wheaton College. He also serves as Non-Resident Senior Fellow for Global Cities at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and teaches on cities and urbanism in the Free University of Berlin’s Center for Global Politics. In 2011, he was named an Emerging Leader by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.  Dr. Toly is a frequent speaker on cities, urban life, and the environment. His written work has appeared in Capital Commentary, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Comment, The Hedgehog Review, Quartz, and Sightings among other publications. In addition to the newly published The Gardeners’ Dirty Hands: Environmental Politics and Christian Ethics, he’s the author of Cities of Tomorrow and the City to Come: A Theology of Urban Life and What is Mercy Ministry? (co-authored with Philip Ryken). You can follow him on Twitter (@noahtoly). Noah Toly joins Uncommontary Host Marty Duren to examine what it means for people to engage the environment.

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Subscribe via Apple Podcasts • Subscribe via Spotify • Subscribe via Google Play Music • Subscribe via RSS • Subscribe via Stitcher • Subscribe via Overcast • Subscribe in Castbox • Subscribe via Android • Subscribe via PodBean • Subscribe via iHeartRadio Dana Hall McCain is a lifelong Alabamian, a graduate of Auburn University, and writes a weekly column about faith, politics and culture for Alabama Media Group. Her work appears on their digital platform, AL.com, as well as in the Birmingham News, the Huntsville Times, and the Mobile Press-Register. She was born and raised as a Southern Baptist, and has served as a Women’s Ministry Leader and as teacher in her local community Bible study class. Dana is a member of the 2019 Leadership Council for the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the SBC, and volunteers each week at her local faith-based pregnancy resource center as a mentor. She’s been married for 22 years to the most patient man on the planet, is the mother of two teenagers, and will fistfight you over Auburn football. Follower her on Twitter @dhmccain. Columnist Dana McCain joins Uncommontary host Marty Duren in a discussion about being a Christian write in today’s American media context.

Subscribe via Apple Podcasts • Subscribe via Spotify • Subscribe via Google Play Music • Subscribe via RSS • Subscribe via Stitcher • Subscribe via Overcast • Subscribe in Castbox • Subscribe via Android • Subscribe via PodBean • Subscribe via iHeartRadio Dr. Heath W. Carter is an associate professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he teaches and writes about the intersection of Christianity and American public life. He earned a BA in English and Theology from Georgetown University in 2003, an MA from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2005, and a PhD in history from the University of Notre Dame in 2012. He came to Princeton from Valparaiso University, where he was on faculty from 2012 to 2019. He spent the 2016-2017 academic year as the William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellow at Vanderbilt University. Carter is the author of Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago, which was the runner up for the American Society of Church History’s 2015 Brewer Prize. He is also the co-editor of three books: The Pew and the Picket Line: Christianity and the American Working Class, Turning Points in the History of American Evangelicalism, and A Documentary History of Religion in America, 4th Ed. Along with Kathryn Gin Lum and Mark Noll, Carter is co-editor of the Library of Religious Biography series, published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.. Dr. Heath Carter joins Uncommontary host Marty Duren discussing evangelical origins in the American labor movement.

Subscribe via Apple Podcasts • Subscribe via Spotify • Subscribe via Google Play Music • Subscribe via RSS • Subscribe via Stitcher • Subscribe via Overcast • Subscribe in Castbox • Subscribe via Android • Subscribe via PodBean • Subscribe via iHeartRadio With a degree in journalism from the University of Warsaw, Pawel Sawicki began his career working as a Culture journalist for Radio Zet in 1999. In 2002, Sawicki began working for Polish Radio 2 where he was the author of programs about World War II, including topics in Photography in Auschwitz, grandchildren of Warsaw uprising fighters, and the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz.  Since 2007, Pawel Sawicki has been the Press and PR officer for Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, where he is responsible for the Museum’s website along with their social media. As PR officer, he was the editor-in-chief of the Museum’s magazine and is now the editor of a monthly magazine published by Auschwitz-Birkenau called “Memoria.” Pawel Sawicki of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum joins Uncommontary host Marty Duren to discuss the infamous death camp and the Holocaust.

Subscribe via Apple Podcasts • Subscribe via Spotify • Subscribe via Google Play Music • Subscribe via RSS • Subscribe via Stitcher • Subscribe via Overcast • Subscribe in Castbox • Subscribe via Android • Subscribe via PodBean • Subscribe via iHeartRadio Julian E. Zelizer, PhD has been one of the pioneers in the revival of American political history. He’s professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of several books including Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975; On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and its Consequences, 1948-2000; and The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society (2015). He is most recent book is Fault Lines: A History of the United States from 1974, co-authored with Princeton historian, Kevin Kruse. Zelizer has edited 10 books on American political history, is a frequent commentator in national and international media, and has published over seven hundred op-eds including his weekly column on CNN.Com.  Julian Zelizer joins Uncommontary host Marty Duren in a conversation about one of the most significant years in American history: 1968.

Subscribe via Apple Podcasts • Subscribe via Spotify • Subscribe via Google Play Music • Subscribe via RSS • Subscribe via Stitcher • Subscribe via Overcast • Subscribe in Castbox • Subscribe via Android • Subscribe via PodBean I was recently asked on Twitter to do an episode covering my five favorite movies. That wouldn’t make a very long episode, so I added books and albums to the list. I hope you enjoy this bridge between seasons 2 and 3. 5 Albums A Liturgy, A Legacy, and a Ragamuffin Band, Rich MullinsJoshua Tree, U2Jars of Clay, Jars of ClayA Charlie Brown Christmas, The Vince Guaraldi TrioStevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble Live at the El (As I speculate on the audio, this does not appear to have been released as an album.)*Honorable MentionsCountdown, Joey AlexanderWith Abandon, Chasing FuriesSigns of Light, The Head and the HeartThe Medicine, John Mark McMillian 5 Books The Devil’s Delusion, David BerlinskiChasing Francis, Ian Morgan CronThe Chamber, John GrishamThe Pursuit of God, A. W. TozerDispatches, Michael Herr *Honorable MentionPeace Child, Don Richardson 5 Movies Winter’s BoneChildren of MenFallenJawsRoad to Perdition *Honorable MentionsCasablancaWorld War ZThe Little Princes (’95)