1819 News: The Podcast

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

#Huntsville #MadisonCounty #Alabama #ChurchPlanting #Dechurching #Missiology #Paideia #ClassicalChristianEducation #Christendom #1819News

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

Promo Video: https://vimeo.com/1225717422?fl=pl&fe=sh

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

Schedule:

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#BusinessAsMission #TheLionsDen #FaithDrivenInvestor #KingdomBusiness #Birmingham #Alabama #ChristianBusiness #TradeNotAid #Entrepreneurship #1819News

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.

Topics Tackled

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.

Watch the full conversation with Bryan Dawson and U.S. Attorney Phil Williams.

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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   

#PhilWilliams #USAttorney #Alabama #NorthernDistrictOfAlabama #ArmyRanger #RuleOfLaw #Veterans #RightsideRadio #AlabamaPolitics #1819News

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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CONNECT WITH PASTOR RICH LUSK:

Watch the full conversation with Bryan Dawson and Pastor Rich Lusk.

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What does the future of the Alabama Republican Party look like?

On this episode of 1819 News: The Podcast, host Bryan Dawson sits down with Alabama Republican Party Chairman Scott Stadthagen for a wide-ranging conversation about the future of the GOP, engaging the next generation, voter turnout, election integrity, and the fight to close Alabama’s party primaries.

Stadthagen shares the story of his journey from House Majority Leader to ALGOP Chairman and explains why he believes conservatives must focus on creating a generational impact.

Dawson and Stadthagen discuss Project Future Generation, an initiative aimed at bringing young Alabamians into the Republican Party and developing the next generation of conservative voters and leaders.

They also tackle:

With a new generation becoming increasingly engaged in politics, Stadthagen believes the Alabama GOP has an opportunity to build something much bigger than the next election cycle.

Watch the full conversation with Bryan Dawson and ALGOP Chairman Scott Stadthagen.

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Who is actually guarding the institutions Americans are supposed to trust?

This week, Bryan Dawson takes on what he sees as an upside-down reality across the country—beginning with a bizarre TSA experience in Seattle and expanding into a much bigger conversation about airport security, public schools, immigration, cultural change, and the people entrusted with protecting the public.

Dawson also revisits stories reported by 1819 News involving Alabama educators, asks why warning signs are so often ignored by those in authority, and argues that fear of being labeled or criticized has made leaders unwilling to make common-sense decisions.

The episode ultimately turns to immigration, the “Great Replacement” debate, Western identity, and Dawson’s argument that Americans need to pay closer attention to the cultural and demographic changes happening around them.

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The battle for America's future isn't just political—it's cultural.

In this episode of 1819 News: The Podcast, Bryan Dawson explains why restoring the family is the key to restoring Christian civilization. Drawing from the latest edition of the 1819 News Magazine, Dawson outlines the vision behind the Fred and Rheta Skelton Center for Cultural Renewal, the biblical symbolism of the "sword and shovel," and why politics alone cannot save a nation.

The conversation explores the relationship between faith, family, culture, and government, arguing that lasting cultural renewal begins in the home. Dawson also discusses the mission of 1819 News, the importance of generational faithfulness, and why rebuilding strong families is essential to preserving Alabama and the American way of life.

If you care about faith, family, culture, and the future of America, this is a conversation you won't want to miss.

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"We're all Rhodesia now" is more than a provocative statement—it's a warning rooted in one of the 20th century's most misunderstood stories.

In this episode of 1819 News: The Podcast, Bryan Dawson sits down with Peter Hammond, who grew up in Rhodesia, to uncover the history of Rhodesia, the birth of Zimbabwe, and why its lessons are becoming increasingly relevant in America and across the Western world.

From Ian Smith and the Bush War to communism, Western civilization, South Africa, and the idea of "Global Zimbabwe," this conversation explores one of history's most controversial—and consequential—stories.

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