Uncommontary

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 Andy Gullahorn is an independent recording artist living in Nashville, TN. He was born and raised in the rich musical climate of Austin, TX and then went to College at Belmont University in Nashville to become a songwriter in the country music scene. After graduation, he spent a number of years as a staff writer for publishing companies while playing guitar on the road for singer/songwriter Jill Phillips (who he happened to be married to). In 2004, he and Jill come off of the road to meet the needs of their growing family. Andy is a mainstay in Andrew Peterson’s annual Behold the Lamb of God tour, and can be found doing his own shows at venues across America. A partial discography includes “Room to Breathe,” “Reinventing The Wheel”, “The Law of Gravity,” “Christmas,” “Beyond the Frame,” and “Everything as it Should Be.” If you’ve ever heard Andy Gullahorn play, you know humor is a big part of both his banter and his songs. If you’ve ever thought, “I’d like to hear Andy talk for a while without his guitar,” well, here’s your chance. Nashville-based recording artist Andy Gullahorn joins Uncommontary host Marty Duren to talk the music biz, stories, and deserted islands.

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 Alan Cross is a pastor, writer, immigrant advocate, and author of When Heaven and Earth Collide: Racism, Southern Evangelicals, and the Better Way of Jesus (New South, 2014). He serves as a consultant with the Evangelical Immigration Table and is also an OpEd contributor for the New York Times writing on the intersection of race, immigration, faith, and the South. Alan Cross joins Uncommontary host Marty Duren in a conversation about how the Bible informs Christians’ thinking on immigration.

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 Jacob Shatzer is assistant professor and associate dean in the School of Theology and Missions at Union University. He earned his PhD from Marquette University. He is the author of A Spreading Faith and Abiding Hope, editor of a volume of messages by A. J. Conyers, and assistant editor for Ethics and Medicine. His most recent book is Transhumanism and the Image of God: Today’s Technology and the Future of Christian Discipleship. What is transhumanism? Author/professor Jacob Shatzer explains it and its possible impact on Christian discipleship.

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 Yousef AlKhouri is a Christian Arab Palestinian. He was born in Gaza to a Christian family that has a long heritage of serving in priesthood in the Greek Orthodox Church. Yousef is married to Merna and both currently live in Bethlehem, the West Bank. He works as a lecturer of Biblical studies at Bethlehem Bible College, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in Biblical Studies. Yousef also holds a Master’s of Divinity from Alliance Theological Seminary (ATS) located in Nyack, NY. He has contributed to two books, Majority World Theologies and Refugee Diaspore. Yousef AlKhouri, a Palestinian Christian and Bible teacher, joins host Marty Duren to talk about an oft overlooked part of the global church.

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 Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Love Mercy Do Justice (LMDJ) initiative of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC). Gilliard also serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association and Evangelicals for Justice. In 2015, he was selected as one of the ECC’s “40 Under 40” leaders to watch, and the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” An ordained minister, Gilliard has served in pastoral ministry in Atlanta, Chicago, and Oakland. He was also a campus minister at North Park University and the racial righteousness director for ECC’s ministry initiatives in the Pacific Southwest Conference. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won the 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press. Dominique Gilliard joins Uncommontary host Marty Duren for a conversation about justice that restores and reconciles.

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 Hussein Ibish is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. He is a weekly columnist for Bloomberg and The National (UAE) and is also a regular contributor to many other U.S. and Middle Eastern publications. He has made thousands of radio and television appearances and was the Washington, DC correspondent for the Daily Star (Beirut). Ibish previously served as a senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine, and executive director of the Hala Salaam Maksoud Foundation for Arab-American Leadership from 2004-09. From 1998-2004, Ibish served as communications director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. He has a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of many books, most recently What’s Wrong with the One-State Agenda? Why Ending the Occupation and Peace with Israel is Still the Palestinian Goal. Hussein Ibish joins Uncommontary host Marty Duren for a conversation about today’s tumultuous Middle East.

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 Lori Anne Thompson calls herself a survivor, a storyteller, and a scholar. She’s a wife and mother from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada who has become, partly as a result of her own life experiences, a fierce advocate for those who have suffered sexual trauma. She says, “My specific goal is too first to study, then to educate and widely communicate on, the anatomy of childhood sexual abuse and the link to repeated revictimization. She, like Jim Collins, believes there are two ways to change the world, “the pen (the use of ideas) and the sword (the use of power). In the face of powerlessness – I have chosen the pen.” Lori Anne Thompson joins host Marty Duren in a conversation about the surviving and healing after sexual trauma.

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 Matt Lewis is a senior columnist for The Daily Beast. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, GQ, The Washington Post, The Week, Roll Call, Politico, The Telegraph, The Independent, and The Guardian. He previously served as senior contributor for The Daily Caller, and before that, as a columnist for AOL’s Politics Daily. Lewis dissects the day’s issues in conversation with other thinkers, authors, and newsmakers on his podcast Matt Lewis and the News, and co-hosts The DMZ Showwith liberal pundit Bill Scher. He is a political commentator for CNN, has appeared on C-SPAN, PBS NewsHour, ABC’s “Nightline,” HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and CBS News’ “Face The Nation,” and has contributed to radio outlets including NPR and the BBC. He’s the author of Too Dumb to Fail: How the GOP Went from the Party of Reagan to the Party of Trumpand The Quotable Rogue: The Ideals of Sarah Palin in Her Own Words.  Matt Lewis joins Uncommontary host Marty Duren to talk about Conservatism and the GOP.

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 Kevin Gannon, aka The Tattooed Prof, is Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Grand View University in Des Moines, IA. He earned a PhD in History from the University of South Carolina.  He has authored several articles and chapters on the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction eras, and publishes regularly on U.S. history, pedagogy, and higher education. He contributed the chapter “A Case Study in Medieval History” for the book The Flipped College Classroom. Gannon is a nationally-recognized speaker on race and U.S. history; pedagogy and higher education; and justice and inclusion. Kevin Gannon joins Uncommontary host Marty Duren to discuss racial issues outside the southern United States.

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 Michael Wear is a leading expert and strategist at the intersection of faith, politics and American public life. He directed faith outreach for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. He served in the White House faith-based initiative during President Obama’s first term and was at that time one of the youngest White House staffers in modern American history. Michael is the founder of Public Square Strategies LLC, a sought-after firm that helps religious organizations, political organizations, businesses and others effectively navigate the rapidly changing American religious and political landscape. He is the author of Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America. Michael also writes for The Atlantic, Christianity Today, USA Today, Relevant Magazine and other publications on faith, politics and culture.  Michael joins Marty Duren on this episode to discuss the current direction of the Democratic Party on abortion.

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 iHeart Radio (coming soon) Leadership expert Todd Adkins joins host Marty Duren to look at how the speed of change affects personal and organizational effectivness. Todd Adkins is the Director of Leadership at LifeWay Christian Resources, the host of 5 Leadership Questions podcast, and the manager of Ministry Grid. A former executive pastor and current dominator of leadership Twitter, Todd has the unique ability to tailor leadership principles for leaders in organizations of all kinds.  Your purchase of any Season 1 books at my Amazon Store helps support Uncommontary.

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  Journalist Sarah Smith joins host Marty Duren to discuss her exposé on sexual abuse in the Independent Fundamental Baptist church movement. Sarah Smith is a metro reporter at the Houston Chronicle covering housing & nonprofits. Before heading to Houston, she investigated sexual abuse in the independent fundamental Baptist movement for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She also spent two years as a fellow at ProPublica. Send her your food recommendations and story tips tosarah.smith@chron.com, or follow her on Twitter at @sarahesmith23

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 iHeart Radio (coming soon) Robert Downen of the Houston Chronicle joins host Marty Duren to peel back the layers on the Southern Baptist sexual abuse. Robert Downen covers City Hall for the Houston Chronicle’s metro desk. Prior to that, he worked as a business reporter in Albany, New York, and as the managing editor of a group of six newspapers in Illinois. He is a 2014 graduate of Eastern Illinois University. In February 2019, he and three other journalists wrote a series of articles detailing decades of sexual abuse in Southern Baptist churches. Read Abuse of Faith: 20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads as leaders resist reforms. Your purchase of any Season 1 books at my Amazon Store helps support Uncommontary.

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 iHeart Radio (coming soon) Dr. Bruce Ashford joins Uncommontary host Marty Duren to discuss how the news media makes disciples and Evangelicals in the public square. Bruce Ashford has been teaching at Southeastern since 2003 and became the provost in 2013.  His goal in teaching is to encourage his students to bear witness to the truth, goodness and beauty of the gospel and to work out its implications in all facets of their lives and in all dimensions of culture. Ashford is the co-author of One Nation under God: A Christian Hope for American Politics, the author Every Square Inch: An Introduction to Cultural Engagement for Christians, Letters to an American Christian and is the editor of Theology and Practice of Mission. He is married to Lauren, with whom he has two daughters (Riley Noelle, Anna Katherine) and a son (John Paul Kuyper). Your purchase of any Season 1 guest’s books at my Amazon Store helps support Uncommontary.

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 iHeart Radio (coming soon) Brooklyn, NY public defender, Scott Hechinger, joins host Marty Duren for a look into the justice system, the trouble with cash bail, and the poor. Scott Hechinger was born and raised in Washington, D.C. and attended Duke University where he received a B.A. magna cum laude in English, but has long called Brooklyn home.As Senior Staff Attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services, Scott has represented thousands of low-income individuals accused of crimes ranging from low-level misdemeanors to the most serious felonies, from arraignment to hearings and trial.Scott is co-founder of the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund, an independent 501(c)(3) charitable bail organization, which pays bail so that low-income individuals can defend their cases from a position of freedom while remaining productive, stable, and united with their families. Scott’s work and commentary has been featured in the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Huffington Post, Take Part, Politico, The Brian Lehrer Show, VICE, and most recently, SXSW Interactive 2016.Scott graduated cum laude from New York University School of Law, where he was named a Florence Allen Scholar, served as Articles Editor for the NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, and was awarded the Ann Petluck Poses Graduation Prize for outstanding clinical work requiring student practice. Your purchase of any Season 1 guest’s books at my Amazon Store helps support Uncommontary.