Dinty W. Moore is author of The Accidental Buddhist and The Mindful Writer. He is a professor of nonfiction writing at Ohio University, the editor of Brevity Magazine, and lives in Athens, Ohio.

www.dintywmoore.com

Brandon used to be a member of a church called the "Church of God Preparing for The kingdom of God." The group holds an apocalyptic view of end times prophecy and the end of the world as we know it. Brandon left in 2013.

Kim 'Skipper' Corbin is the host of the New World Now podcast at New World Library, where she serves as a senior publicist/social media manager. She has also been a passionate promoter of the benefits of adult skipping since 1999 via her iskip.com website, which has been featured in Time, Newsweek, and People Magazines. Her website iskip.com offers an information source and gathering place for people all over the world who enjoy a good skip.

Gregg Deal is an artist, a husband, a father and a member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe.

Dr. Li Dan is professor of Chinese Literature in the College of Humanities and Communications at Shanghai Normal University, China. She was appointed the Chinese director of the Confucius Institute at the University of MIssouri from 2015-2017. She is the author of 44 academic articles and one book, Approaching to the Poetics. We spoke at the University of Missouri Confucius Institute on November 21, the anniversary of the death of Confucius.

Brad Warner is most recently the author of It Came from Beyond Zen! and numerous other titles including Don't Be a Jerk, Sit Down & Shut Up, Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate, There is No God and he is always with you, Sex, Sin, and Zen, Hardcore Zen, and Hardcore Zen Strikes Again. A Soto Zen priest, he is a punk bassist, filmmaker, Japanese-monster-movie marketer, and popular blogger based in Los Angeles. You can find him online at www.hardcorezen.info

Rev. Molly Housh Gordon started her tenure as the third settled minister of the Columbia, Missouri Unitarian Universalist congregation 2012. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Religion from Hendrix College in Conway, Ark. and a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass.

Rev. Housh Gordon Sermon Archive Link: https://uuchurch.net/sermon-archive

Dennis Kelley is an associate professor of Religious Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He received his Master's and Doctorate from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with emphases in American Indian Religious Traditions, Religion in American Culture, and Myth and Ritual Theory. His most recent book is Tradition, Performance, and Religion in Native America: Ancestral Ways, Modern Selves, and is currently working on a book tentatively titled Having Had a Spiritual (Re)Awakening: Religion and Alcohol Addiction Recovery in Indian Country.

Book Link: https://www.amazon.com/Tradition-Performance-Religion-Native-America/dp/0415823633/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1509903178&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=dennis+kelly+tradition+performance+religion

Rev. Josh Privitt was called as Associate Pastor at St. Peter's UCC in Ferguson, Missouri in August of 2014 after graduating from Eden Theological Seminary with a Masters of Divinity.

Baha'u'llah is the founder of the Baha'i Faith. 2017 marks the 200th anniversary of his birth. This discussion with Dr. Sahba Jalali and Kurt Saxton offers insight into the auspicious nature of 2017 for the world's Baha'i population.