the underview.
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.
Episodes
109 episodes
the primitive baptist church with Tom Griffin and Paul Lindsey (ep 3, 18).
Drive the back roads between Rogers and Pea Ridge and you'll pass a small white church that gave its town a name. Little Flock Primitive Baptist Church was constituted in 1843, planted out of the older Shiloh congregation whose building ...
the assembly of god church with Gary Wheat (ep 3, 17).
In this episode of the underview, Pastor Gary Wheat of The Assembly in Siloam Springs opens the door to a tradition born on Arkansas soil. The Assemblies of God was founded in Hot Springs in 1914, and the Assembly itself tr...
the home region with Robert Burns, part 2 (ep 3, 16).
After the strategy conversation, co-host Monica Kumar led a different kind of exchange. Robert Burns, Director of the Walton Family Foundation's Home Region Program, shares the arc of his own faith journey: a rural North Ca...
the home region with Robert Burns, part 1 (ep 3, 15).
When the Walton Family Foundation released its Home Region Strategy 2030 in May 2026, the underview paused its season to ask what it means. Robert Burns, director of the Foundation's Home Region Program, sits down with Mike Rusch ...
the church of christ church with Minister Marshall Brown (ep 3, 14).
Flagstone Church of Christ in Bentonville was planted sixteen years ago with about a hundred people from an established Church of Christ congregation in Rogers. Its lead minister, Marshall Brown, grew up in Fort Smith, attended Ha...
the southern baptist church with Pastor Dustin Barton (ep 3, 13).
⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of historical violence and harm, and references to sexual and physical abuse within faith communities. Listener discretion is advised.Greenland, Arkansas is a town of about four...
the historic missionary baptist church with Pastor Jonathan F. Lowder, Sr. (ep 3, 12).
From hush harbors to becoming a cathedral of resistance, The Historic St. James Missionary Baptist Church has been asking the same question since 1865: what do we owe the people who don't yet have a place here? Founded by Squire Jehagen,...
the permission with Darrel Harvey (ep 3, 11).
Darrel Harvey is the Chief Formation Officer at Workmatters. Darrel spent more than forty years in ministry, raised in a small Holiness church an hour north of Detroit, ordained young, a planter of churches, a pastor of congregatio...
the united methodist church with Rev. Dr. Michelle Morris, part 2 (ep 3, 10).
⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains the tragedy of gun violence and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.In part two of this conversation, Rev. Dr. Michelle Morris gets into what First United Methodist Church Bentonville is doin...
the united methodist church with Rev. Dr. Michelle Morris, part 1 (ep 3, 09).
⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains the tragedy of gun violence and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.First United Methodist Church Bentonville has stood on the same corner since 1832 before Arkansas was a state, before the C...
the episcopal church with Rev. Evan D. Garner. (ep 3, 08).
Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in Fayetteville was organized on May 23, 1848, making it one of the oldest surviving church in the city. In this episode, Re...
the catholic church with Father Jason Tyler (ep 3, 07).
⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains references to the enslavement of Black communities and the impact of immigration enforcement on immigrant families. Listener discretion is advised.St. Joseph Catholic Church in Fa...
the history of faith with Rachel Whitaker, part 2 (ep 3, 06).
⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains references to Indigenous removal, the history of enslavement, and the dehumanization of Black communities in the Arkansas Ozarks. Listener discretion is advised.In the conclusion of a tw...
the history of faith with Rachel Whitaker, part 1 (ep 3, 05).
⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains references to Indigenous removal, the history of enslavement, and the dehumanization of Black communities in the Arkansas Ozarks. Listener discretion is advised.In the first part of a tw...
the faith of Northwest Arkansas with Monica Kumar (ep 3, 04).
In Season 3 of the underview, we begin where every honest conversation about faith has to begin with a starting point. Monica Kumar joins as co-host for "the faith of Northwest Arkansas," and this episode is the Monica's story, the work of nami...
the terms of faith with Mike Rusch (ep 3, 03).
Before Season 3 moves further into the faith of Northwest Arkansas, this interstitial pause defines the five words the season is built on faith, religion, theology, church, and ideology and asks what happens when their differences are not fully...
the faith of Northwest Arkansas with Mike Rusch (ep 3, 02).
In the opening episode of Season 3, the underview begins its most ambitious exploration yet: the faith of Northwest Arkansas. From the seat of a gravel bike on a quiet Sunday morning in Benton County, the episode traces the religious history of...
an introduction to the faith of Northwest Arkansas (ep 3, 01).
Season 3 of the underview traces the faith that built Northwest Arkansas, from frontier revivals to megachurches, from the invisible church of enslaved people to the Spanish-language masses reshaping our region today.This season asks har...
the moment with Mike Rusch (ep 2b, 49).
This bridge episode sits in the tension of the current moment. Across two seasons, the underview has traced power in Northwest Arkansas from indigenous removal through racial terror to the displacement happening right now, asking what our insti...
the journalist with Sam Hoisington (ep 2b, 48).
What happens to a community when no one is paying attention? Since 2005, America has lost more than 3,200 newspapers and the number of journalists per capita has dropped from 40 to just 8 per 100,000 people. The consequences are measurable: vot...
the faithful foundations with Scott Page (ep 2b, 47).
In Northwest Arkansas, where housing affordability was once the region's greatest draw, working families are increasingly being pushed to the edges. Women with children in their cars are showing up at church doorsteps asking a question congrega...
the faithful foundations with Candi Adams (ep 2b, 46).
In a region where home prices have jumped 70.9% in five years and median rent has increased by double digits across every major city, affordable housing solutions can feel elusive. But the Faithful Foundations program, created by the Urban L...
the Nuevo South with Dr. Perla M. Guerrero (ep 2b, 45).
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Perla Guerrero, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland and author of Nuevo South, to explore one of the most significant transformations in Northwest Arka...
the neighborhood with Solomon Burchfield (ep 2b, 44).
Solomon Burchfield, Executive Director of New Beginnings NWA, brings both lived experience and professional expertise to one of Northwest Arkansas's most urgent challenges. Growing up in a family that faced the real possibility of...
