Uncommontary

Dominique Gilliard joins Uncommontary host Marty Duren for a conversation about justice that restores and reconciles.

Hussein Ibish joins Uncommontary host Marty Duren for a conversation about today's tumultuous Middle East.

Lori Anne Thompson joins host Marty Duren in a conversation about the surviving and healing after sexual trauma.

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Lori Anne Thompson calls herself a survivor, a storyteller, and a scholar. She’s a wife and mother from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada who has become, partly as a result of her own life experiences, a fierce advocate for those who have suffered sexual trauma. She says, “My specific goal is too first to study, then to educate and widely communicate on, the anatomy of childhood sexual abuse and the link to repeated revictimization. She, like Jim Collins, believes there are two ways to change the world, “the pen (the use of ideas) and the sword (the use of power). In the face of powerlessness – I have chosen the pen.”

Lori Anne Thompson joins host Marty Duren in a conversation about the surviving and healing after sexual trauma.

Matt Lewis joins Uncommontary host Marty Duren to talk about Conservatism and the GOP.

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Matt Lewis is a senior columnist for The Daily Beast. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, GQ, The Washington Post, The Week, Roll Call, Politico, The Telegraph, The Independent, and The Guardian. He previously served as senior contributor for The Daily Caller, and before that, as a columnist for AOL’s Politics Daily.

Lewis dissects the day’s issues in conversation with other thinkers, authors, and newsmakers on his podcast Matt Lewis and the News, and co-hosts The DMZ Showwith liberal pundit Bill Scher. He is a political commentator for CNN, has appeared on C-SPAN, PBS NewsHour, ABC’s “Nightline,” HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and CBS News’ “Face The Nation,” and has contributed to radio outlets including NPR and the BBC.

He’s the author of Too Dumb to Fail: How the GOP Went from the Party of Reagan to the Party of Trumpand The Quotable Rogue: The Ideals of Sarah Palin in Her Own Words. 

Matt Lewis joins Uncommontary host Marty Duren to talk about Conservatism and the GOP.

Kevin Gannon joins Uncommontary host Marty Duren to discuss racial issues outside the southern United States.

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Kevin Gannon, aka The Tattooed Prof, is Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Grand View University in Des Moines, IA. He earned a PhD in History from the University of South Carolina. 

He has authored several articles and chapters on the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction eras, and publishes regularly on U.S. history, pedagogy, and higher education. He contributed the chapter “A Case Study in Medieval History” for the book The Flipped College Classroom. Gannon is a nationally-recognized speaker on race and U.S. history; pedagogy and higher education; and justice and inclusion.

Kevin Gannon joins Uncommontary host Marty Duren to discuss racial issues outside the southern United States.

Michael Wear joins Marty Duren on this episode to discuss the current direction of the Democratic Party on abortion.

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Michael Wear is a leading expert and strategist at the intersection of faith, politics and American public life. He directed faith outreach for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. He served in the White House faith-based initiative during President Obama’s first term and was at that time one of the youngest White House staffers in modern American history.

Michael is the founder of Public Square Strategies LLC, a sought-after firm that helps religious organizations, political organizations, businesses and others effectively navigate the rapidly changing American religious and political landscape.

He is the author of Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America. Michael also writes for The Atlantic, Christianity Today, USA Today, Relevant Magazine and other publications on faith, politics and culture. 

Michael joins Marty Duren on this episode to discuss the current direction of the Democratic Party on abortion.