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Most news focuses on national stories. But we can’t directly affect what happens in Washington. We started 1819 News The Podcast to focus on news, politics, and public policy in the state of Alabama. 1819 News provides independent and unbiased journalism the way it should be. Tune in to hear important news stories that focus on Alabama.

  1. 1d ago

    Modern Evangelicalism Baptized Cowardice and Called It a Virtue | Michael Clary

    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.   TOPICS TACKLED: What "loser theology" is, and why it works on people who hold conservative convictions The three tent pegs: spectator spirituality, the doormat doctrine, white flag Christianity Clary's own turn, and why boldness grew his church instead of emptying it Nefarious money or honest misreading? Why the answer is both "If you're talking about conservative politics you're threatening the gospel. If you're talking about liberal politics you're expressing the gospel." The endorsement he lost because the book criticized a man the endorser owed Why abdicated authority is still authority misused, from the home to the statehouse Twelve disciplines of high agency Christianity, and where an ordinary person starts Whether eschatology is the real driver, and Clary's answer   Contacts CONNECT WITH MICHAEL CLARY: 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 SUPPORT THE WORK: Every gift through December 31 is matched, up to $250,000 total.  Give: https://1819news.com/give  Bryan Dawson: bryan.dawson@1819news.com  Ashley Carter, donor development: ashley.carter@1819news.com MORE FROM 1819 NEWS: Website: https://1819news.com Bryan Dawson on X: https://x.com/Bryan1819News   Hashtags #LoserTheology #MichaelClary #Christendom #Courage #Evangelicalism #HighAgency #BiblicalWorldview #Alabama #1819News #ChristianCivilization

  2. Oct 7

    DEI in Alabama Hospitals: What Do the Numbers Really Show?

    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   CONNECT 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   SUPPORT THE WORK: Every gift through December 31 is matched, up to $250,000 total. Give: https://1819news.com/give   Bryan Dawson: bryan.dawson@1819news.com Ashley Carter, donor development: ashley.carter@1819news.com Website: https://1819news.com Bryan Dawson on X: https://x.com/Bryan1819News   HASHTAGS #MakeAlabamaHealthy #Alabama #Healthcare #alpolitics #Montgomery #UAB #MedicalResidency #LoserTheology #Accountability #1819News

  3. Sep 30

    Huntsville Has More in Common With Colorado Springs Than Cullman | Pastor Zach Carter

    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." Connect Personal site: https://zachariahcarter.com Redeemer Church, Huntsville: https://redeemerhuntsville.org The Gospel Coalition: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/profile/zach-carter/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/zmcarter #Huntsville #MadisonCounty #Alabama #ChurchPlanting #Dechurching #Missiology #Paideia #ClassicalChristianEducation #Christendom #1819News

  4. Sep 23

    Fenn Church, Property Rights, and reigning in Universities | Apryl Marie Fogel

    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

  5. Sep 16

    Shark Tank for Christian Business | The Lions Den

    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." TOPICS TACKLED: Why the sacred and secular divide has convinced Christian businessmen they are second-class citizens The quadruple bottom line: profit, social, spiritual, and creation care "Trade, not aid," and why starting businesses beats shipping rice Sierra Leone, Moldova, South Africa, China: what happens when a job replaces a handout How to measure spiritual impact in a business without turning it into a sales pitch Why pursuing the spiritual bottom line tends to produce the social one, and not the reverse The Lions Den format, who should attend, and what happens at the Professional Summit   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: Wednesday, October 14: Professional Summit supper, 6:00 PM.  Thursday, October 15:  Professional Summit, approximately 8:00 to 4:00, with a luncheon featuring Peter Greer of HOPE International.  Main Lions Den event, 4:00 to 6:00.  Friday, October 16: accredited investor session, 8:00 to 12:00.   1819 NEWS Website: https://1819news.com  Support the mission: https://1819news.com/give  Bryan Dawson on X: https://x.com/Bryan1819News   #BusinessAsMission #TheLionsDen #FaithDrivenInvestor #KingdomBusiness #Birmingham #Alabama #ChristianBusiness #TradeNotAid #Entrepreneurship #1819News

  6. Sep 9

    We Sowed Bloodshed in the Womb. Now We're Reaping It in the Streets. | Seth Gruber

    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 Why the natural outworking of the gospel is the building of a civilization, not just individual conversions Tom Holland, "Dominion," and the agnostic historian's case that the West runs on borrowed Christian capital The Lindsay Clancy case, the mistrial, and what the reaction revealed on both the left and the right What the founders of modern feminism said out loud about destroying the family Simone de Beauvoir: "We cannot allow women to make that decision, because too many of them will choose it" Why the fiercest early opponents of women's suffrage were married American women JD Vance, family policy, and whether the right is willing to use power to rebuild the home The Last Stand: a documentary and book on Christian resistance, and how to host a screening   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

  7. Sep 2

    The Story of US Attorney Phil Williams: from Army Ranger to US Attorney

    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.   Subscribe to 1819 News, like the video, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear what God can do with a life.   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

  8. Aug 26

    Public Schools Are Discipling Your Kids | Pastor Rich Lusk

    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. TOPICS TACKLED: The myth of "neutral" education and secular humanism as an established state religion Who owns your children — God, the state, or Satan? Deuteronomy 6, Ephesians 6 & "paideia" — what God commands parents to do How American public schools went from Protestant common schools to gender ideology King Alfred the Great, English common law, and rebuilding Christian civilization CONNECT WITH PASTOR RICH LUSK: X / Twitter: https://x.com/Vicar1973 Substack: https://richlusk.substack.com Trinity Presbyterian Church (Birmingham, AL): https://www.trinity-pres.net Trinity Classical Academy (Birmingham, AL): https://trinityclassical.academy Writing at American Reformer, The Federalist & Theopolis Institute Watch the full conversation with Bryan Dawson and Pastor Rich Lusk. Subscribe to 1819 News, like the video, and share this episode with someone who cares about the future of Alabama.

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Most news focuses on national stories. But we can’t directly affect what happens in Washington. We started 1819 News The Podcast to focus on news, politics, and public policy in the state of Alabama. 1819 News provides independent and unbiased journalism the way it should be. Tune in to hear important news stories that focus on Alabama.

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