Podcast Archive

From 2013-2016, I conducted several interviews with the Marginalia Review of Books. These are now available at Archive.org. Below is a list of these interview, alphabetized by author. 

• Steve Almond, Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto 

• Patricia Appelbaum, St. Francis of America: How a Thirteenth-Century Friar Became America’s Most Popular Saint 

• Randall Balmer, Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter

• Samantha Baskind, Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America

• Diana Butler Bass, Grounded: Finding God in the World-A Spiritual Revolution

• Chris Beneke and Christopher Grenda (eds.), The Lively Experiment: Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present

• Michael Birkel, Qur’an in Conversation

•  Jason Bivins, Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion

• Annie Blazer, Playing for God: Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry

• Douglas Boin, Coming Out Christian in the Roman World: How the Followers of Jesus Made a Place in Caesar’s Empire

• Heath Carter, Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago

• Brian Catlos, Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors: Faith, Power, and Violence in the Age of Crusade and Jihad

• Robert Darden, Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement

• Amy DeRogatis, Saving Sex: Sexuality and Salvation in American Evangelicalism

• Seth Dowland, Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right

• Carolyn Dupont, Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975

• John Fea, The Bible Cause: A History of the American Bible Society

• Peter Gardella, American Civil Religion: What Americans Hold Sacred

• Brantley Gasaway, Progressive Evangelicals and the Pursuit of Social Justice

• W. Clark Gilpin, Religion Around Emily Dickinson

• Craig Harline, Way Below the Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled but Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live Mormon Missionary

• Stephen Haynes, The Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation

• Felipe Hinojosa, Latino Mennonites: Civil Rights, Faith and Evangelical Culture

• Robert Hoyland, In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire

• Elizabeth Johnson, Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love

• Paula Kane, Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America

• David M. Krueger, Myths of the Rune Stone: Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America

• Luís León, The Political Spirituality of Cesar Chavez: Crossing Religious Borders

• George Marsden, The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief

• Father James Martin, The Abbey: A Story of Discovery

• Father James Martin, Seven Last Words: An Invitation to a Deeper Friendship with Jesus

• Michael McVicar, Christian Reconstruction: R.J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism

• S. Brent Plate, A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses

• Joseph Reiff, Born of Conviction: White Methodists and Mississippi’s Closed Society

• Alexander Riley, Angel Patriots: The Crash of United Flight 93 and the Myth of America

• Scott Rohrer, Jacob Green’s Revolution: Radical Religion and Reform in a Revolutionary Age

• E.M. Rose, The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe

• Anthony Santoro, Exile and Embrace: Contemporary Religious Discourse on the Death Penalty

• Chad Seales, The Secular Spectacle: Performing Religion in a Southern Town

• Leslie Dorrough Smith, Righteous Rhetoric: Sex, Speech, and the Politics of the Concerned Women for America

• John Shelby Spong, Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy

• Matthew Stewart, Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic

• Karine Walther, Sacred Interests: The United States and the Islamic World, 1821-1921

• Isaac Weiner, Religion Out Loud: Religious Sound, Public Space, and American Pluralism

• Reggie Williams, Bonhoeffer's Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance

• John Wilsey, American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion: Reassessing the History of an Idea

• Lauren Winner, Wearing God: Clothing, Laughter, Fire, and Other Overlooked Ways of Meeting God

• Molly Worthen, Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism

• Neil J. Young, We Gather Together: The Religious Right and the Problem of Interfaith Politics

• Victoria M. Young, Saint John's Abbey Church: Marcel Breuer and the Creation of a Modern Sacred Space