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) What is “biblical justice”? Pastor/theologian Thabiti Anyabwile joins Marty Duren to discuss this timely, crucial concept. Thabiti AnyabwileThabiti Anyabwile(MS, North Carolina State University) is a pastor atAnacostia River Churchin southeast Washington, DC, and a Council member of The Gospel Coalition. He’s the author of several books, including What Is a Healthy Church Member?, Finding Faithful Elders and Deacons, Reviving the Black Church, and others. He and his wife, Kristie, have three children. Your purchase of any Season 1 guest’s books at my Amazon Store helps support 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 iHeart Radio (coming soon) Kaitlin Curtice, Native American poet and author, joins host Marty Duren to talk about Christian missions vs colonization. Kaitlin Curtice is an enrolled citizen of the Potawatomi Citizen Band Nation. She’s a writer, speaker, mama, partner, and avid coffee drinker. She’s the author of Glory Happening: Finding the Divine in Everyday Places from Paraclete Press, a collection of fifty essays and prayers that focus on the idea of glory. She has contributed pieces to OnBeing, Decaturish, Ruminate Magazine, The Mudroom,  Relevant Magazine Online, Sojourners,CBE International  and Red Rising Magazine.

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 iHeart Radio (coming soon) • Subscribe via PodBean (coming soon) National Review Senior Writer, David French, joins host Marty Duren in a conversation covering Trump-infused conservatism, the challenges of being in the press, and what happens when a family member is threatened over online commentary. David French is a senior writer for National Review, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom (where he was awarded the Bronze Star), and an attorney whose practice is concentrated on constitutional law and the law of armed conflict. French is the author or co-author of several books including the No. 1 New York Times bestselling Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can’t Ignore. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, the past president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), and a former lecturer at Cornell Law School. He has served as a senior counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice and the Alliance Defending Freedom. David is a former major in the United States Army Reserve (IRR).  In 2007, he deployed to Iraq, serving in Diyala Province as Squadron Judge Advocate for the 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, where he was awarded the Bronze Star. He lives and works in Columbia, Tennessee, with his wife, Nancy (who is also a New York Times bestselling author), and three children.

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 iHeart Radio (coming soon) • Subscribe via PodBean (coming soon) On this episode of Uncommontary, English professor Karen Swallow Prior talks about the importance of reading books. Karen Swallow Prior, PhD, is an award-winning Professor of English at Liberty University. She is the author of Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me (T. S. Poetry Press, 2012), Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist (Thomas Nelson, 2014), and On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Literature (Brazos, 2018). Prior’s writing has appeared at Christianity Today, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, First Things, Vox, Think Christian, The Gospel Coalition, Books and Culture and other places. She is a Research Fellow with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, a Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum, a Senior Fellow with Liberty University’s Center for Apologetics and Cultural Engagement, and a member of the Faith Advisory Council of the Humane Society of the 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 iHeart Radio (coming soon) • Subscribe via PodBean (coming soon) Attorney Qasim Rashid joins host Marty Duren to discuss Islam, whether Sharia Law is a threat to Americans, and extremism. Qasim Rashid is a best-selling  and critically acclaimed author, practicing attorney, former visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Prince AlWaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies program, and Executive Director of AMI APS, a human rights NGO dedicated to advancing international peace and security. Rashid’s latest book Talk To Me: Changing the Narrative on Race, Religion, & Education launched in 2016. #TalkToMe is a non-fiction memoir on how the power of dialogue can overcome racism, xenophobia, intolerance, and violence. Previously, Qasim published EXTREMIST: A Response to Geert Wilders & Terrorists Everywhere (2014), which became an Amazon #1 Best Seller on Islam. His first solo-authored work is the critically acclaimed book, The Wrong Kind of Muslim: An Untold Story of Persecution & Perseverance (2013). In addition, Qasim has contributed to Towards a Greater Jihad: Using the Pen in Islam’s Defense (2008) and By the Dawn’s Early Light: Short Stories by American Converts to Islam (2009). Qasim regularly publishes in outlets such as TIME, The Independent, and Washington Post. His work has appeared in USA Today, The Daily Beast, National Public Radio, Virginia Pilot, among various other national and international outlets.

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 iHeart Radio (coming soon) • Subscribe via PodBean (coming soon) On this inaugural edition of Uncommontary, Princeton historian and Twitter’s Historian in Residence, Kevin Kruse, talks about race and politics in the South and his new book Fault Lines, co-authored with Julian Zelizer. Kevin Kruse is a professor of history at Princeton University. He studies the political, social, and urban/suburban history of 20th-century America. Focused on conflicts over race, rights, and religion, he has particular interests in segregation and the civil rights movement, the rise of religious nationalism and the making of modern conservatism. Kruse is the author of White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2005), One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (2015), and Fault Lines: A History of America Since 1974 (with Julian Zelizer, 2019). He has also edited three collections and is currently working on The Division: John Doar, the Justice Department, and the Civil Rights Movement. Follow Kevin Kruse (@kevinmkruse), Julian Zelizer (@julianzelizer ), Marty Duren (@martyduren), and Uncommontary Podcast (@UncommontaryPod).

Welcome to Uncommontary! Conversations. Clarity. This trailer features the Season 1 lineup and clips from episodes 1–3. 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 iHeart Radio (coming soon) • Subscribe via PodBean (coming soon) Here’s the Season 1 lineup:Episode 1–Kevin Kruse, Princeton University and Twitter’s Historian-in-Residence. Twitter: @KevinMKruseEpisode 2–Qasim Rashid, attorney/author/Islamic teacher: @MuslimIQEpisode 3–Karen Swallow Prior, professor of English/author: @KSPriorEpisode 4–David French, Senior Writer, National Review: @DavidAFrenchEpisode 5-Kaitlin Curtice, Native American author/poet, @KaitlinCurticeEpisode 6–Thabiti Anyabwile, pastor/theologian, @thabitianyabwilEpisode 7–Scott Hechinger, Brooklyn public defender, @ScottHechEpisode 8–Bruce Ashford, public theologian/Provost SEBTS, @bruceashfordEpisode 9–Sarah Smith, journalist, Houston Chronicle, @sarahesmith23Episode 10–Todd Adkins, leadership development guru, @ToddAdkins