The Classical Ideas Podcast

Dr. Cristina Rosetti completed her Ph. D., in religious studies at the University of California Riverside. She writes about Mormon fundamentalism. Follow her work on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/CristinaMartaR  

Dalena Storm Is a writer and educator. Her undergraduate training at Williams College was in Asian Studies with a Religious Studies Concentration, and her experiences in the study and practice of various religious and spiritual traditions, as well as her travels throughout Asia and Europe, influence much of her writing. She earned her MFA in Fiction from Bennington College, where she participated...

Dr. Kelly J. Baker is the author of the award-winning Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930  (University Press of Kansas, 2011);  The Zombies Are Coming!: The Realities of the Zombie Apocalypse in American Culture  (Bondfire Books, 2013);  Grace Period: A Memoir in Pieces  (Blue Crow Books, 2017); the award-winning  Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in...

In this special dual-published episode, Oran Parker of Find the Good News Podcast interviews Classical Ideas host, Greg Soden.  Visit: findthegood.news Find the Good News on Twitter Oran Parker on Twitter  

Dr Tim Hutchings is a sociologist of digital religion. His PhD (Durham University, 2010) was an ethnographic study of five online Christian churches. Dr Hutchings is interested in the relationship between religion, media and culture, with particular attention to digital forms of Christianity. His research has included studies of online worship; digital evangelism and formation; online community; d...

DEBORAH EDEN TULL  is the founder of  Mindful Living Revolution . She is a Zen meditation and mindfulness teacher, public speaker, author, activist, and sustainability educator. She trained for seven years as a Buddhist monk at a silent Zen monastery in Northern California, and she has been traveling to, living in, or teaching about conscious, sustainable communities internationally for the last 2...

Robert Schaefer is a professional chef and lifelong Buddhist practitioner. He received the Jukai ceremony at the Korinji Rinzai Monastery in Wisconsin under the direction of Roshi Meido Moore.  You can find his Zen Facebook group here . You can follow Classical Ideas on Twitter here . 

Roshi Grace Schireson is a teacher in the Suzuki Roshi Lineage of Soto Zen, empowered by Sojun Mel Weitsman. She has also practiced in the Rinzai tradition and was encouraged to teach koans by Keido Fukushima Roshi. Grace is the author of  Zen Women  and co-editor of  Zen Bridge.  Grace is the head teacher of the Central Valley Zen Foundationi, president of Shogaku Zen Institute, and teaches medit...

Chris Murray is a social studies classroom teacher and religious literacy teacher education facilitator in Maryland.  You can find him on Twitter https://twitter.com/Mrmurraytweets Read about Chris Murray in the Washington Post here . 

Madison Tarleton is a Ph. D. candidate and scholar of Medieval Judaism in Christian Europe, antijudaism & antisemitism . Madison is studying at the University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology's joint PhD program. Read The Krampus Conundrum here: https://sacredmattersmagazine.com/the-devils-in-the-details-the-krampus-conundrum/ You can follow her work on Twitter https://twitter.com/madisontar...

Dr. Geoffrey Barstow is assistant professor of religious studies at Oregon State University. His research focuses on the history and theory of vegetarianism in Tibet. He is the editor and contributor to the new book " The Faults of Meat: Tibetan Buddhist Writings on Vegetarianism ," out now from Wisdom Publications. He is also the author of the academic monograph " Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Veg...

Dr. Jackson W. Crawford is Instructor of Nordic Studies and Coordinator of the Nordic Program at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Crawford is the author and translator of The Wanderer's Havamal and The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes. Both books are available from Hackett Publishing. Visit Crawford online at: https://www.jacksonwcrawford.com Visit Jackson Crawford on YouTube a...

Dr. Simran Jeet Singh is columnist for Religion News Service, Senior Fellow at the Sikh Coalition, Chaplain at New York University & Columbia University, and serves on the Governor's Interfaith Advisory Committee for the State of New York. Follow him on Twitter here. Visit his website here Read How colonialism still colors our ideas about who gets to teach religion here.

Dr. Samira Mehta a scholar of religion and the politics of the American Family and an assistant professor of Women and Gender Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has a degree in divinity from Harvard University, and a PhD from Emory University, Her book is Beyond Chrismukkah: Christian-Jewish Interfaith Families in the United States, from the University of North C...

Dr. Liz Bucar is a professor in the department of philosophy and religion and Dean's Leadership Fellow at Northeastern University in Boston. Dr. Bucar is the author of the award-winning Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women  Dress   which came out from Harvard University Press in 2017, and was issued in paperback in July 2019. Furthermore, Bucar writes and teaches about gender, sexuality, and politics i...

Dr. Liz Bucar is a religious ethicist who studies sexuality, gender, and moral transformation within Islamic and Christian traditions and communities. She is author of three books, including the award-winning Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress  (Harvard University Press, 2017). At Northeastern Bucar teaches courses on sexual ethics, Islam, the politics of the veil, and the popular comparative r...

Dr. Shari Rabin is a scholar of modern Judaism and American religions. Her first book, Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-century America (New York University Press, 2017), was the winner of the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies and a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Rabin is currently an assistant professor of Jewish studies  and ...

Ordained as a Soto Zen priest, Brad Warner is also a punk bassist, filmmaker, and blogger. He is the founder of Angel City Zen Center in Los Angeles and the author of  Hardcore Zen ,  Sit Down and Shut Up , and several other books about Zen Buddhism. His writing appears on SuicideGirls.com and in  Lion's Roar ,  Tricycle ,  Buddhadharma , and  Alternative Press . He lives in Los Angeles.  You can...

Jordan Baggs is a senior at The Ohio State University. She double-majors in International Religions and Religious Studies and minors in French. She is a member of The Ohio State Marching Band.   

Mike Dimkich is a guitarist in the band Bad Religion, a cyclist, and a runner.  Follow him on Instagram at:  https://www.instagram.com/miketheserb/

Dr. Stephanie Brehm, author of the brand new book, America's Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself): Stephen Colbert and American Religion in the 21st Century, out now from Fordham Press.  She received her PhD from Northwestern in Religious Studies Department. Her academic work uses ethnographic and media studies methods to explore the intersection of entertainment, mass media, and religion i...

Dr. Chris Babits is an Andrew W. Mellon Engaged Scholar Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Ph. D. in History from UT-Austin in May 2019. His work examines the intersections of religion, medicine, gender, and sexuality in the modern United States. His current in-progress book project, To Cure a Sinful Nation: A History of Conversion Therapy in the Uni...

Dr. Amy Artman teaches in the Department of Religious Studies at Missouri State University. Her research interests are in Pentecostalism and Charismatic Christianity, focusing on women in American religions, such as Aimee Semple McPherson and Kathryn Kuhlman. Her other research interests include world religions, and bodies and theories of American religion. Artman's newest book is " The Miracle La...

Mark Coleman has taught meditation retreats and trainings worldwide for twenty years. He is the founder of the Mindfulness Institute and Awake in the Wild Programs. A senior teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, he lives in Northern Calilfornia.  Visit him online at  https://www.markcoleman.org Buy "From Suffering to Peace"  here Visit Classical Ideas Podcast on Twitter at  https://www.twitter...

Dr. Maren Freudenberg is a research associate at the Center for Religious Studies at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, and the associate editor of the journal Entangled Religions. You can visit her online:  https://ceres.rub.de/en/people/maren-freudenberg/ Read the article "Dynamics and Stability in Globally Expanding Charismatic Religions: The Case of the Vineyard Movement in Germany, Austria,...