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About Gregory Soden
Greg Soden (M.Ed) teaches World Religions, Debate, Speech, World History, and Humanities at Mizzou Academy in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Missouri. He received his M.Ed from the University of Saskatchewan and his B.Sci at the University of Missouri. He hosts Classical Ideas Podcast and Unscripted Moments: A Podcast About Propagandhi. He lives in Buffalo, New York and cheers for the Bills.
NBN Episodes hosted by Gregory:
November 17, 2024
Naked City: A Graphic Novel
Born and raised on Manhattan Island, Eric Drooker began to slap his art on the streets at night as a teenager. Since then, his drawings and posters ha…
November 2, 2024
Sigh, Gone
For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In (Flatiron Books,…
August 28, 2024
The Devil’s Music
I was immediately drawn to the book The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock n’ Roll (Harvard University Press, 2018) …
August 6, 2024
Band People
A close look at the lives of working musicians who aren't the center of their stage. Secret (and not-so-secret) weapons, side-of-the-stagers, rhythm …
July 5, 2024
The Racism of People Who Love You
The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging (Beacon Press, 2023) is an unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings …
May 5, 2024
Working It
Fiercely intelligent, fantastically transgressive, Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex (PM Press, 2023) is an intimate portrait of the lives of…
April 11, 2024
A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics
In A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive (T&T Clark, 2024), Elyse Ambrose looks to an archive of blackqueerness as a…
March 28, 2024
Mutations
How can so many people pledge allegiance to punk, something with no fixed identity? Depending on who and where you are, punk can be an outlet, excuse,…
March 11, 2024
Multiracial Cosmotheandrism: A Practical Theology of Multiracial Experiences
In Multiracial Cosmotheandrism: A Practical Theology of Multiracial Experiences (Orbis, 2023), Aizaiah G. Yong critically considers how the lives and …
February 29, 2024
Gone to the Wolves
Kip, Leslie, and Kira are outliers—even in the metal scene they love. In arch-conservative Gulf Coast Florida in the late 1980s, just listening to met…
February 13, 2024
The Hands That Crafted the Bomb
Today I talked to Josh Fernandez about his new memoir The Hands That Crafted the Bomb: The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist (PM Press, 2024). Josh Fe…
February 4, 2024
Bones & Honey
Bones & Honey: A Heathen Prayer Book (New World Library, 2023)l is a collection of nature-inspired prayers, mythic incantations, stories, and pagan po…
January 23, 2024
Teaching Women's and Gender Studies (Grades 9-12)
Incorporate Women’s and Gender Studies into your middle school classroom using the powerful lesson plans in this book. In Kathryn Fishman-Weaver and J…
January 21, 2024
In Defense of Ska
The era of ska shame is officially over, and ska fans no longer need to hide in the basement, skanking alone. The creator of the popular podcast In …
January 20, 2024
Teaching Women's and Gender Studies
Incorporate Women’s and Gender Studies into your middle school classroom using the powerful lesson plans in this book. In Kathryn Fishman-Weaver and …
January 16, 2024
Moon of the Turning Leaves
It’s been over a decade since a mysterious cataclysm caused a permanent blackout that toppled infrastructure and thrust the world into anarchy. Evan W…
January 11, 2024
Beyond Christianity
Darnise C. Martin's Beyond Christianity: African Americans in a New Thought Church (NYU Press, 2005) draws on rich ethnographic work in a Religious Sc…
December 13, 2023
Where the Pavement Turns to Sand
Where the Pavement Turns to Sand (Malarkey Books, 2023) is a collection of working class, everyday heartbreaks and bad decisions. In a refreshing rura…
December 12, 2023
60 Songs That Explain The 90s
A companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, this book takes listeners through the greatest hits that define a weirdly undefinable decade. The …
October 28, 2023
NoMeansNo
They were unlike any other band in the punk scene they called home. NoMeansNo started in the basement of the family home of brothers Rob and John Wr…
October 27, 2023
Down in the Flood
Sheldon Birnie's novel Down in the Flood (BookBaby, 2012) is the story of a man who is rapidly becoming lost in a sea of women, whisky, and bad weathe…
October 8, 2023
The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye
Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein's book The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: Ecumenism, Feminism, and Communal Practice (U Notre Dame Press, 2023) explore…
October 4, 2023
Missing Like Teeth
From 1990 to 2001, while the popular radio waves were consumed with the buzz of grunge and alternative rock, Winnipeg managed to craft a unique underg…
July 15, 2023
Virgin Nation
First taking hold of the American cultural imagination in the 1990s, the sexual purity movement of contemporary evangelicalism has since received cons…