Soapbox Redemption

This episode is another very personal one. My son eight year old son William was diagnosed with medulloblastoma nearly a year ago. He’s since on embarked on an incredible journey of brain surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy – and recently rang the bell completing his treatment right before Thanksgiving. His response to this adversity has been nothing short of amazing and awe-inspiring. His smile...

This episode is a deeply personal one. The Soapbox Redemption podcast has always been aimed at the big questions- and of course, served with swagger. Since my last podcast, I’ve come across the biggest question yet in my life with my seven year old son William’s brain and spine cancer diagnosis called medulloblastoma. Words fail to relay the horror that this reality is for a family. Everything imm...

This episode features a conversation with Daniele Bolelli . Daniele is a writer, martial artist, university professor, and podcaster. He was born in Italy and currently lives in Los Angeles. After graduating from UCLA with a B.A. in Anthropology and earning graduate degrees in American Indian Studies and History at UCLA and Cal State Long Beach, he began teaching at several colleges in Southern Ca...

This episode features a conversation with Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor of History of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.  A former Peace Corps volunteer and high school social studies teacher, he holds a Ph. D. in history from the Johns Hopkins University. His scholarship has focused broadly on the ways that different peoples have imagined and debated education across time and...

This episode features a conversation with Dr. Hanni Stoklosa. Hanni is the Executive Director of HEAL Trafficking , an emergency physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) with appointments at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Dr. Stoklosa is an internationally-recognized expert, advocate, researcher, and speaker on the wellbeing of trafficking survivors in the U...

This episode features a conversation with Vance Morgan.  Vance is a Professor of Philosophy at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, where he has taught for the past twenty-seven years. He is an award-winning teacher and the author of five books, most recently Freelance Christianity: Philosophy, Faith, and the Real World (Cascade Books, 2017) and Prayer for People Who Don't Believe...

This episode features a conversation with Massimo Pigliucci and may very well be my favorite podcast to date. Besides Massimo being a prominent philosopher and writer on many of the big questions, his writing and speaking on Stoicism has had a profound influence on me personally. With that, he was also gracious enough to moderate a discussion between myself and my co-author Adam Lee . Outside all...

This episode features a conversation with James Franklin .  Dr. James Franklin is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of New South Wales in Australia and founder of the “Sydney School” in the philosophy of mathematics. He completed his PhD in 1981 at the University of Warwick, on algebraic groups. Since 1981 he has taught in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University...

This episode features a conversation with William Jaworski . Dr. William Jaworski is an author, consultant, and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University in New York. His research focuses mainly on consciousness and its relation to the brain, as well as artificial intelligence and its implications for human well-being. He’s authored a number of books on philosophy of mind from the va...

This episode features a conversation with Randal Rauser .  Randal is a systematic and analytic theologian, Associate Professor of Historical Theology at Taylor Seminary in Edmonton, and author of several books including An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar , which was definitely source of inspiration for my and Adam’s book Meta . Besides giving our book a nice blurb, Randal hosted Adam...

The first episode of Soapbox Redemption features my friend and coauthor Adam Lee. Adam and I initiated a blog exchange on Patheos where we are neighbors ( myself on Progressive Christian ; Adam on Nonreligious ) which culminated into our book ( Meta: On God, the Big Questions, and the Just City ) and live events where we celebrate our exchange and  shared cause of ending human trafficking . I...