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About Blair Hodges
I am host, producer, and editor of Fireside with Blair Hodges. I earned a bachelor’s degree in communications (journalism) at the University of Utah and a master’s degree in religious studies at Georgetown University. I'm former host of the Maxwell Institute Podcast at Brigham Young University. I currently serve as director of marketing and communications for Volunteers of America, Utah, a nonprofit focusing on homelessness, mental illness, and addiction. I enjoy reading, family time, weekend napping, the Utah Jazz, and living in Salt Lake City. My interests are very wide.
Blair Hodges hosted and produced the Maxwell Institute Podcast for eight years before going independent with his current show, Fireside with Blair Hodges. It features interviews with writers, scholars, social justice advocates, and artists talking about culture, faith, memory, and more.
NBN Episodes hosted by Blair:
January 25, 2024
Joseph Smith's Gold Plates
Renowned historian of Mormonism Richard Lyman Bushman's latest book presents a vibrant history of a sacred object that gave birth to a new religion: t…
May 21, 2023
Conspirituality
Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Public Health Threat (PublicAffairs, 2023) is a much-needed analysis of wellness, new age, a…
April 21, 2023
Works of Love in a World of Violence
Today I talked to Deidre Nicole Green about her book Works of Love in a World of Violence: Feminism, Kierkegaard, and the Limits of Self-Sacrifice (Mo…
April 20, 2023
Kingdom of Nauvoo
Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, treated as fringe cultists at best or marginalized as polygamists unworthy of serious …
April 19, 2023
Jacob
"What could I have done more for my vineyard?" In one of the Book of Mormon's most magisterial passages, the lord of a vineyard looks over his beloved…
April 18, 2023
American Nationalisms
America was born in an age of political revolution throughout the Atlantic world, a period when the very definition of 'nation' was transforming. Benj…
February 6, 2023
The Burning Book
The Burning Book (By Common Consent Press, 2022) is an unusual and intriguing memoir about Jason Olsen's conversion from Judaism to Mormonism. But it …