1819 News: The Podcast

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville sits down with Bryan Dawson to walk through "Back to Basics: The Golden Age Playbook," the policy document his campaign released ahead of the November election.

Tuberville says the playbook took a year and a half and drew on roughly 100 people from outside state government, chosen deliberately because they were experts in their fields rather than politicians. He describes his approach to the job the same way: hire good people, sell them the plan, and turn them loose.

The conversation runs through the substance. Workforce development and a push to start trade instruction as early as ninth grade, built around Alabama's community college system. Why manufacturing has to reach rural counties if rural hospitals are going to survive, and the three things a site needs: water, power, and workforce. The prison construction overrun, the federal lawsuit, and what he says went wrong. A proposed Secretary of Energy position overseeing the Public Service Commission, and his position on base rates. The Family Affordability Act, the grocery tax, and the income tax. DEI in schools and universities. And crime in Montgomery, where he says flatly, "Montgomery's dead."

He also talks about what he learned in Washington, his 11-month hold over Pentagon abortion travel policy, and why he describes what he sees coming as communism rather than socialism.

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Huntsville runs on brains. Redstone Arsenal, NASA, Research Park, the defense and aerospace contractors. Throw a rock and you hit an engineer. Whoever forms those minds shapes the future of the city, and through it the state.

Right now those minds are formed almost entirely in secular institutions. Jason Cherry wants to change that.

Cherry is the board chairman of New Trinity Foundation, which is working to establish New Trinity College in Huntsville: a Christian liberal arts college built around STEM rather than beside it. He sits down with Bryan Dawson to make the case.

His diagnosis is that American higher education has been cut in half. "The engineer has forgotten how to pray, and the poet has forgotten how to count." Two kinds of half-educated people, each needing what the other has. The word university comes from a Latin root meaning 'turned into one,' and by that standard, he argues, most universities are universities in name only. The physics department and the English department share a parking lot, a football team, and almost nothing else.

He also tells the story of how Trinity Reformed Church started in a backyard with fifty people in lawn chairs during the 2020 shutdowns and now has nearly 600 members across two sites.

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Bryan Dawson previewed this book last week. This week he has the author.

Michael Clary is the founding pastor of Christ the King Church in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, and the author of "Loser Theology: Why the Weak Will Not Inherit the Earth." His argument is that a generation of conservative Christians was trained to hold the right convictions and never assert them, based on the theory that asserting anything is a grab for power and the godliest use of power is to lay it down.

He names the three load-bearing pieces of it. Spectator spirituality, which shrinks the whole Christian life into the interior of the heart. The doormat doctrine, which treats suffering as the measure of faithfulness. And white flag Christianity, which "demands nothing, risks nothing, builds nothing, and protects nothing, convincing us this is the way God would have it."

Clary tells his own story first. He was trained to be careful, learned that careful was really just afraid, and found that the bolder he got the more his church grew.

Then the two of them work through what Christians are actually for: whether the outworking of the gospel is a ticket to heaven or the building of a civilization, why cowards are first on the list in Revelation 21, and why a man who refuses to use the authority God gave him has not avoided misusing it.

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Contacts

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Who

Where

Michael Clary

@dmichaelclary · dmichaelclary.com

Loser Theology

losertheology.com · Canon Press

His other writing       

American Reformer · Center for Baptist Leadership

Church

Christ the King Church, Fort Thomas, Kentucky

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819 News is launching the Make Alabama Healthy initiative, and this episode makes the case for why.

This initiative has two halves. One is investigative, covering reimbursement rates, hospital funding, and the staffing of Alabama's residency programs. Reporter Daniel Taylor is now dedicated to the beat full time, and the first numbers are already published, showing huge percentages of international medical graduates practicing at Baptist Health, Flowers Hospital in Dothan, UAB, and North Alabama Medical Center in Florence. These last ones are not rural hospitals, which makes this a pattern rather than just a shortage story.

The other half of this initiative is personal responsibility, and Bryan Dawson starts with himself. He was 205 pounds and running four miles a day during his prison years. He came home, discovered processed food, and reached 317 pounds. Today, he is 261 pounds and walks three miles a day starting at 4:30 a.m. Dawson also tells the story of his mother's heart attack, the ambulance that took 45 minutes because a dispatcher did not understand the word cardiovascular, and the ICU team he credits with saving her life.

Plus a preview of next week's guest, D. Michael Clary, author of "Loser Theology: Why the Weak Will Not Inherit the Earth."

Topics Tackled

• Launching Make Alabama Healthy: one part investigative, one part personal responsibility

• Why Alabama has no sidewalks, and what a culture of health actually looks like

• 317 pounds to 261: prison fitness, processed food, and why only a caloric deficit worked

• A heart attack, a 45-minute ambulance, and a dispatcher who did not understand the word cardiovascular

• The residency numbers: what Daniel Taylor found at Baptist Health, UAB, Flowers, Mobile Infirmary, and more

• Whether hospital grant funding is tied to diversity metrics, and what it would take to prove it

• Reimbursement rates in Alabama versus Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee

• Preview: "Loser Theology" and the courage American churches are not producing

• The $250,000 year-end match, now through December 31

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THE REPORTING BEHIND THIS EPISODE:

Baptist Health Montgomery leans heavily on international graduates to fill residencies: https://1819news.com/news/item/baptist-health-montgomery-leans-heavily-on-international-graduates-to-fill-residencies

Foreign-trained physicians dominate many Alabama hospital residencies: https://1819news.com/news/item/foreign-trained-physicians-dominate-many-alabama-hospital-residencies

NEXT WEEK:

D. Michael Clary, "Loser Theology" (Canon Press): https://canonpress.com/products/loser-theology

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Huntsville is one of the fastest growing metro areas in the country. Over the last five years, roughly one in four people who moved there came from cities that missiologists classify as post-Christian.

Pastor Zach Carter has been modeling what that does to a county. His conclusion, delivered to rooms full of Madison and Limestone County pastors, is that the Huntsville area should now be treated less like Cullman and more like Colorado Springs.

Bryan Dawson, who was born in Colorado Springs and watched Colorado go from reliably red to deep blue, knows exactly what that comparison means. Colorado Springs had Fort Carson, Peterson Air Force Base, NORAD, the Air Force Academy, Focus on the Family, and New Life Church. Military money, federal jobs, and Christian institutions were on every side. It secularized anyway.

Carter's answer is not a political program. "The solution to dechurching is more churches. The solution to paganization is more churches."

"Politics is downstream from culture, and culture is downstream from religion."

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Personal site: https://zachariahcarter.com

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On October 1, HB 580 takes effect. It strips Alabama's faculty senates of the power they have spent decades accumulating and gives universities a process to review tenure and remove faculty with cause.

Auburn moved first and didn't wait. The University of Alabama, whose faculty senate Apryl Marie Fogel calls the most ideologically captured in the state, is keeping theirs.

Bryan Dawson sits down with Fogel, who directs the 1819 News Center for Education, for the full picture: what a faculty senate actually is, why presidents and trustees have spent years deferring to them, and what happens on the campuses if nobody uses the authority the legislature just handed them.

They also cover the property rights fight the whole state is watching. Finn Church, a Shelby County landowner, just won a temporary injunction against Alabama Power in an eminent domain case that drew John Rich and national attention. And a bill the legislature thought was routine now means a right of way across a man's driveway can be leased out to telecom companies he never agreed to.

"The things that tie your hands in one instance somehow don't exist in the second instance.

Topics Tackled

Finn Church wins a temporary injunction against Alabama Power in Shelby County

Data centers, NDAs and the secrecy problem: why the process is making people angrier than the projects

Why the legislature can move in days when it wants to and in years when it doesn't

The Homewood police staffing fight and what it says about municipal priorities

HB 580: what a faculty senate is, what it controlled, and what changes October 1

Why Auburn moved first, and why Alabama, Troy and others are keeping theirs

Post-tenure review, the three laws already being violated, and what happens when one professor actually gets fired

The UA School of Social Work, and a DEI advocate promoted to associate provost

Connect

Apryl Marie Fogel on X: https://x.com/aprylmarie

Her work at 1819 News: https://1819news.com/author/apryl.marie

#Alabama #AlPolitics #HigherEd #HB580 #FacultySenate #PropertyRights #EminentDomain #DataCenters #BackTheBlue #1819News

Billy Graham said one of the next great movements of God would be by believers in the marketplace. The men in this episode have spent twenty years proving he was right.

Bryan Dawson sits down with the team behind The Lions Den, a Birmingham event best described as a Christian "Shark Tank." Companies from Africa, Asia, South America and right here at home present their business case to a panel of successful Christian businessmen who grill them on profit, social impact, creation care, and the one most organizations skip: the spiritual bottom line.

This is the "trade, not aid" argument in practice. A bakery in a South African township that opened doors no missionary could open. A cheese factory and dairy in Moldova that grew from three employees to thirty and kept fathers from leaving the country to find work. A fried chicken chain, a bank and an IT company in Sierra Leone, the eighth poorest country on earth. A factory owner in China who says his ministry runs from eight to five.

"There are ten to twenty times more business owners than there are pastors. What's going to change America and the world is business owners stewarding their companies in a way that has impact."

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THE LIONS DEN, OCTOBER 14-16, BIRMINGHAM:

Tickets and details: https://www.thelionsden.us/tickets

Event listing: https://businessasmission.com/resources/the-lions-den/ 

X / Twitter: https://x.com/bhmtld

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Venue: The Harbert Center, 2019 4th Avenue North, Birmingham, AL 35203.

Schedule:

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A mother in Massachusetts strangled her three children. Her trial ended in a mistrial. A fundraiser tied to the case has now passed $1.2 million, with the goal raised to $3 million.

Seth Gruber says none of this should surprise anyone. "All she's done is apply the pro-abortion ideology this side of the womb."

Bryan Dawson sits down with Gruber, founder of The White Rose Resistance and author of The Last Stand: Christ or Chaos, The War For The West, for a hard conversation about why the family is the engine of civilization, why the left has understood that better than most pastors do, and why a gospel that stops at personal salvation leaves a culture defenseless.

From Tom Holland's "Dominion" to Simone de Beauvoir's admission that women could not be trusted to choose motherhood freely, this is the argument that Christian civilization is not a bonus feature of the faith. It is the thing being fought over.

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CONNECT WITH SETH GRUBER:

The Last Stand film, host a screening: https://thelaststand.com/film/ 

The Last Stand book: https://thelaststand.com/book/

The White Rose Resistance: https://thewhiterose.life 

Seth Gruber: https://sethgruber.com X / Twitter: https://x.com/sgruber91

#SethGruber #TheLastStand #WhiteRoseResistance #Christendom #ChristianCivilization #ProLife #Family #CultureWar #Alabama #1819News

Army Ranger. Two combat tours. Youth pastor. State senator. Talk radio host. CNN contributor. And now the top federal prosecutor in Alabama’s largest federal district.

Bryan Dawson sits down with Phil Williams, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, for the full story: the troubled kid who got shipped overseas to live with his father and met Christ in a youth choir in London; the reserve officer who was among the first Alabamians on the ground in Afghanistan after 9/11; the law student who came home from war and had to sue the Alabama State Bar to sit for the bar exam; and the day a lieutenant changed the convoy route for no reason he could explain and a car bomb went off on the road they were supposed to be on.

Five years ago, Phil and Bryan were launching Rightside Radio and 1819 News out of the same building, betting that Alabama could become an outpost of freedom. This is the story of what God did with that bet.

“Personnel is policy.” When the nomination came, Phil said no. Here’s what happened next.

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Topics Tackled

• Fitting square pegs in round holes: an army kid, a broken home, and the structure that saved him

• Afghanistan and Baghdad including the route change that stopped a convoy from driving into a car bomb

• Ranger School and the lesson: “When you want to quit, that’s your mind, not your body”

• Suing the Alabama State Bar after a combat deployment cost him his ethics exam score

• The 2010 Senate class, 136 years of one-party rule, and voting to cut their own pay

• From Rightside Radio to CNN, making the conservative case in hostile rooms

• Turning down the U.S. Attorney nomination, and the phone call that changed his mind

Connect With Phil Williams

• U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Alabama: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal

• X / Twitter (personal, from his Rightside era): https://x.com/SenPhilWilliams

• Rightside Radio archive (Rumble): https://rumble.com/c/c-1625445

• His years of work at 1819 News: https://1819news.com/author/PhilWilliams   

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Is your child's education actually neutral? In this episode, 1819 News sits down with Pastor Rich Lusk (Trinity Presbyterian Church / Trinity Classical Academy) to argue that no classroom is neutral—every school disciples children into someone's kingdom.

Lusk makes the biblical and historical case that Christian children need a thoroughly Christian education and why this is the front line of the culture war. From Deuteronomy 6 and Ephesians 6 to the Greek concept of "paideia," and from Horace Mann and John Dewey to King Alfred the Great, this is a blueprint for rebuilding Christian civilization one child at a time.

"Progressives don't reproduce in the bedroom, they reproduce in the classroom." If you're a Christian parent, this one is for you.

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