the terms of faith with Mike Rusch (ep 3, 03).

About this episode

This episode defines five key terms related to faith and explores their differences and implications.

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 understood. Faith is interior, personal, not available for public examination. Religion is what a tradition carries across generations. Theology is the public reasoning that tradition does about the sacred. Church, or synagogue, or temple, or mosque, i...

People in this episode

Host: Mike Rusch

Topics covered

• faith
• religion
• theology
• church
• ideology

Keywords

• faith
• religion
• theology
• church
• ideology
• Northwest Arkansas

More episodes of the underview.

• the historic missionary baptist church with Pastor Jonathan F. Lowder, Sr. (ep 3, 12). · June 9, 2026 · 1h 32m
• the permission with Darrel Harvey (ep 3, 11). · June 2, 2026 · 1h 10m
• the united methodist church with Rev. Dr. Michelle Morris, part 2 (ep 3, 10). · May 26, 2026 · 1h 2m
• the united methodist church with Rev. Dr. Michelle Morris, part 1 (ep 3, 09). · May 26, 2026 · 58 min
• the episcopal church with Rev. Evan D. Garner. (ep 3, 08). · May 19, 2026 · 1h 30m
• the catholic church with Father Jason Tyler (ep 3, 07). · May 12, 2026 · 1h 18m