Podcast appearances and mentions of Nathan O Hatch

Strong leadership is born not from control, but from authentic community and the cultivation of people and teams. Nathan Hatch, former president of Wake Forest University and esteemed historian, joins Mark Labberton to reflect on the nature of transformative leadership. Drawing from his decades of experience at Notre Dame and Wake Forest—and from his new book, The Gift of Transformative Leaders—Hatch explores how leaders cultivate thriving institutions through humility, vision, and empowerment. Hatch shares his personal journey from growing up in a Presbyterian home to leading major universities, while reflecting on the comomunity, character, instincts, and freedom required for lasting institutional impact. Episode Highlights "Organizations aren't self-generating—you bet on people, not on strategy." "Organizations are best served when you have a team of like-minded people, each using their own strengths." "Leadership has to flow out of who you are authentically—you can't try to be someone else." "If you have exceptional people, it takes management of a different form—it's collaboration." "Leadership is not about control but about strength: hiring strong people is harder, but it's transformative." "People read your real meanings, not your words—authenticity is the heart of leadership." Helpful Links & Resources The Gift of Transformative Leaders, by Nathan Hatch University of Notre Dame Wake Forest University Jim Collins - Good to Great About Nathan Hatch Dr. Nathan O. Hatch is President Emeritus of Wake Forest University and one of America's leading scholars of religion and higher education. Prior to his presidency at Wake Forest (2005–2021), Hatch served as provost at the University of Notre Dame. His groundbreaking scholarship in American religious history includes The Democratization of American Christianity, and his latest book is The Gift of Transformative Leaders. Hatch is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and continues to speak and write on leadership, higher education, and culture. Show Notes Raised in a Christian home; son of a Presbyterian minister and teacher Influenced early by history teacher and work experiences in Cabrini Green, Chicago Studied at Wheaton College, Washington University in St. Louis, and Johns Hopkins University Became an unlikely but successful historian at the University of Notre Dame Leadership philosophy shaped by early experiences with supportive professional teams and deep community and friendship How did the past come to change and create the world we live in? Transitioned from historian to administrator, balancing scholarship and administration Provost at Notre Dame: emphasized empowering faculty through development and resources President at Wake Forest: built strong leadership teams, expanded institutional vision Reflections on Father Theodore Hesburgh's visionary leadership at Notre Dame “Organizations aren't self-generating. … [it takes] a vision and leader.” "Leadership must be authentic; it must come out of who you are." The transformative impact of great leadership teams over hierarchical control Importance of raising institutional aspirations and empowering individuals to flourish "Hiring strong people makes the leader stronger, not weaker." Nathan Hatch's book, The Gift of Transformative Leaders Profiles 13 leaders who exemplify commitment, character, and institution-building Focus on people-centric leadership: authenticity, humility, vision Leaders described as radiating positivity, cultivating others, and advancing institutional missions Catholic and Protestant institutional differences in faith expression Creating inclusive religious life in pluralistic academic communities Investing in character education through initiatives like Wake Forest's scholarship programs Building culture: "Noticing people, investing in them, seeing their potential." “How do we help young people live their life?” Identifying and empowering exceptional talent Embracing unconventional hiring practices Building thriving, collaborative, life-giving teams Cultivating environments where people pursue a common good Navigating faculty-administration relationships with authenticity and transparency Facing organizational financial challenges without losing people-first priorities Leadership in contexts with limited resources: raising people's potential Authenticity and empathy are foundational to leadership Humility and commitment to the common good are non-negotiable Leaders must genuinely invest in the flourishing of others Institutions are transformed not by structures alone but by transformative people Production Credits Conversing is produced and distributed in partnership with Comment Magazine and Fuller Seminary.

Embracing the F-Word: What is Feminism and how it can help us all be fully human Special guest Alison Buxton joins us again to discuss that OTHER dirty f-word: Feminism. She tells us what it is, what it isn't, and why it matters. The 2 dudes on this podcast learned a LOT from Alison, including how feminism is connected to everything in ways we didn't expect. Friends don't have to use shortened names Ms. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms.) Book Club Episode: (https://www.followingthefire.com/30) “The Making of Biblical Womanhood” by Beth Allison Barr Rush Limbaugh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh) “Feminazi” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminazi) Book: “The Poisonwood Bible” by Barbara Kingsolver (https://amzn.to/3fp6cSS) Jane Fonda Vietnam War protests (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Fonda#Opposition_to_the_Vietnam_War) bell hooks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks) Bra burning (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-45303069) Women's March 2017 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Women%27s_March) Black Lives Matter (https://blacklivesmatter.com) History of Feminism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_feminism) Intersectionality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality) Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberlé_Crenshaw) 19th Amendment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution) Jim Crow laws (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws) MeToo movement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeToo_movement) Tarana Burke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarana_Burke) From “The Handmaid's Tale” - Gilead (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale#Setting) Clarence Thomas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas#Supreme_Court_nomination_and_confirmation) Anita Hill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Hill#Allegations_of_sexual_harassment_against_Clarence_Thomas) Book: “The Democratization of American Christianity” by Nathan O. Hatch (https://amzn.to/3DPBYlA) The Bechdel Test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test) The Bechdel Test Movie List (https://bechdeltest.com) Nadia Boltz Weber (https://nadiabolzweber.com) Article: “The Crisis of Men and Boys” (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/opinion/crisis-men-masculinity.html)by David Brooks in the New York Times The Feeling Wheel (https://allthefeelz.app/feeling-wheel/) Kimberlé Crenshaw TED Talk (https://youtu.be/akOe5-UsQ2o) Book: “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir (https://amzn.to/3U40G7y) Book: “The Woman's Hour” by Elaine Weiss (https://amzn.to/3WnUxEz) Book: “The Krunk Feminist Collective” by Brittany Cooper (https://amzn.to/3U9IwRu) Book: “Feminism is For Everybody” by bell hooks (https://amzn.to/3SUKcNt) Book: “The Feminine Mystique” by Betty Friedan (https://amzn.to/3DRz9jL) Special Guest: Alison Buxton.

Preferring a narrowly defined gospel, why have so many American evangelicals in recent decades not invested more in intellectual pursuits? Mark A. Noll here in 'The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind' wants to know, and we should want to know along with him. As he opens, "The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind." Yet there are a few surprising gems here. For example, Noll confirms a suspicion I recently arrived at from reading other things, that German pietism has had a few hundred years at this point to emphasize the importance of feelings in the Christian life in a way that has gradually displaced the former preeminence which cultivating the life of the Christian mind enjoyed in the Church. This has left the Church in America especially vulnerable to a lot of nonsense, ignorance, and unreasonableness. Yet Noll seems not to connect sufficiently the link between the condescension of liberal theology having administratively dominated American higher education and K-12 over the past century to the evacuation of conservative evangelical Christians from this space, even though these are two sides of the same coin. The Democratization of American Christianity by Nathan O. Hatch is referenced helpfully. However, Noll as a Progressive Christian comes across as fussy and whiny at points in a way that is unbecoming and not selling the merit where it is to be found in many of his anecdotes and observations. Where he complains early and often about Creationism and fundamentalism, for instance, I cannot agree with him. Rather, I am offended because he is being rude and presumptuous - only all the more so because I myself am a Creationist. But there is more. Noll also seems to be not drawing the relationship correctly between presuming that science on the terms of the positivist has ascended even as conservative Christians have been pushed out of every kind of debate in secular and Statist institutions. But where respectable intellectuals are defined by their adherence to progressive presuppositions, the complaint that few to no conservative intellectuals qualify as such or are celebrated seems disingenuous. But where I appreciate most what Noll has to say is in his call for restoring a long, rich tradition in Christianity of scholarship, intellectual rigor, study of the natural world, and engagement in every sphere of science to the glory of God. This is well, and the American Church would do well to heed this. At the same time, Noll's prescription for how to do this is narrower-minded than Rod Dreher's Live Not By Lies, for instance. Where Dreher calls more recently for more Christian home education and adult education, Noll seems to have eyes only for higher education and the academy on the terms of secularists and liberals, with scant room if any left for conservative Christians whom Noll seems to lump into a kind of basket of deplorables for American Christendom with the moniker 'Fundamentalists.' Yet I would challenge Noll and those taken with his survey to consider situations like mine and my neighbor JP Chavez's - who read this book before I did, and recommended it to me - where we read and discuss all these important books like Noll's, and are endeavoring to cultivate the life of the mind to honor God, lead our families well, and serve our local church with an eye to the rich history of not just Christian life, but also thought. Where Noll at times comes across as a bit of an elitist, I think his facts and historical treatment of evangelical Christianity in America is generally helpful, yet could have been much more helpful without the condescension and self-aggrandizing of a particularly narrow vision of cultivating Christian intellect. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/garrett-ashley-mullet/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/garrett-ashley-mullet/support

I just finished this book by Nathan O. Hatch - 'The Democratization of American Christianity.' So let's talk about it, shall we? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/garrett-ashley-mullet/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/garrett-ashley-mullet/support

In this prize-winning book Nathan O. Hatch offers a provocative reassessment of religion and culture in the early days of the American republic, arguing that during this period American Christianity was democratized and common people became powerful actors on the religious scene. Hatch examines five distinct traditions or mass movements that emerged early in the nineteenth century—the Christian movement, Methodism, the Baptist movement, the black churches, and the Mormons—showing how all offered compelling visions of individual potential and collective aspiration to the unschooled and unsophisticated.Nathan O. Hatch grew up in Columbia, S.C., where his father was a Presbyterian minister. A graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois, he received his master's and doctoral degrees from Washington University in St. Louis and held post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard and Johns Hopkins universities. He joined the faculty at the University of Notre Dame in 1975. He was named provost, the university's second highest-ranking position, in 1996; a Presbyterian, he was the first Protestant to ever serve in that position at Notre Dame. Dr. Hatch became Wake Forest University's 13th president on July 1, 2005. He is the author of The Sacred Cause of Liberty: Republican Thought and the Millennium in Revolutionary New England and The Democratization of American Christianity, and co-edited The Search for Christian America, Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience, and The Bible in America: Essays in Cultural History.-Michael J. Altman received his Ph.D. in American Religious Cultures from Emory University. His areas of interest are American religious history, colonialism, theory and method in the study of religion, and Asian religions in American culture. Trained in the field of American religious cultures, he is interested in the ways religion is constructed through difference, conflict, and contact. Dr. Altman is the author of Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu: American Representations of India, 1721-1893. For his next book-length project, Dr. Altman is researching the use of American history in the formation of evangelical Protestant identities and communities.---Support for the Age of Jackson Podcast was provided by Isabelle Laskari, Jared Riddick, John Muller, Julianne Johnson, Laura Lochner, Mark Etherton, Marshall Steinbaum, Martha S. Jones, Michael Gorodiloff, Mitchell Oxford, Richard D. Brown, Rod, Rosa, Stephen Campbell, and Victoria Johnson, Alice Burton, as well as Andrew Jackson's Hermitage​ in Nashville, TN.

This week, Gillespie and Riley discuss a sermon by George Whitefield, who defends his theology against the attacks of an “old light.” Our Text: George Whitefield, "The Folly and Danger of Being Not Righteous Enough” Show Notes:  George Whitefield Biography Aspergillum Capon - Entrepreneurial model episodes Hammer of God - Bo Giertz The Democratization of American Christianity – by Nathan O. Hatch  Moralistic Therapeutic Deism - Christian Smith — Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at BannedBooks@1517legacy.com. Please subscribe, rate, and review the show in Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/banned-books-podcast/id1370993639?mt=2. We’re proud to be part of 1517 Podcasts, a network of shows dedicated to delivering Christ-centered content through weekly, monthly, and seasonal audio platforms. Our podcasts cover a multitude of content, from Christian doctrine, apologetics, cultural engagement, and powerful preaching. Find out more at 1517. And as always, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffeinated needs and especially the 1517 Reformation Roast

Dr. Nathan O. Hatch became Wake Forest’s 13th president on July 1, 2005. In his eighth year at the helm, U.S. News and World Report named Wake Forest 23rd among 281 national universities – the highest ever ranking for the University.