Monica is the founder of Bridging Us, which provides strategic consulting services, and the Chief Operations Officer at Aiding Survivors of Human Trafficking & Child Abuse. She has led work at Engage NWA, Excellerate Foundation, and Downtown Bentonville Inc., and previously practiced human rights and immigration law in London. As co-host of this season of the underview, she brings curiosity and grounded care to questions of faith, belonging, and the bridges that have always been between us.
Ozark historian Dr. Jared Phillips brings the season home. How the faith of the Arkansas hills moved from resisting power to seeking it, what the 1970s newcomers & the corporate boom changed, why nostalgia is more dangerous than Christian nationalism, & who is allowed to ask what this place becomes.
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Sojourners president Rev. Adam Russell Taylor traces the beloved community from Loving v. Virginia to today, names Christian nationalism's local reach into Northwest Arkansas, and offers guardrails for faith in public life.
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Arkansas leads the nation in Christian nationalism. Sociologist Andrew Whitehead, author of Taking America Back for God and American Idolatry, defines the framework, traces its history, and names what to listen for in our pews, schools, and civic life.
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