The Classical Ideas Podcast

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 in a number of workshops that combined the study of fiction and nonfiction. She teaches a Winter Study course at Williams College called "How to Write Auto-Fiction." She is the author of The Hungry Ghost" out from Black Spot Books, an imprint of Vesuvian Media Group. You can find her work on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/DalenaStorm or online at https://www.Dalenastorm.com.

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 Academia (Blue Crow Books, 2018); and Final Girl: And Other Essays on Grief, Trauma, and Mental Illness (Blue Crow Books, 2019).

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Read "It's the End and Nothing Feels Fine" here: https://killingthebuddha.com/mag/dispatch/its-the-end-and-nothing-feels-fine/

In this special dual-published episode, Oran Parker of Find the Good News Podcast interviews Classical Ideas host, Greg Soden.

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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; digital publishing and e-reading; apps and games; and death and dying. His research led to the publication of his book Creating Church Online: Ritual, Community and New Media (Routledge, 2017).

You can follow him on Twitter at https://www.twitter.com/tim_hutchings

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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 25 years. She is the author of two books, The Natural Kitchen, which came out in 2010, and Relational Mindfulness: A Handbook for Deepening our Connection with ourselves, each other and the planet, out in 2018 from Wisdom Publications. She lives in North Carolina and offers retreats, workshops, and consultations nationally.

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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.

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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 meditatioin at Stanford University. A clinical psychologist by profession, you can reach her at https://www.graceschireson.com.

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Chris Murray is a social studies classroom teacher and religious literacy teacher education facilitator in Maryland.

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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/

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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, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet," out in 2018 from Columbia University Press.

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