Guest: Reza Aslan is a religion scholar and a professor of creative writing at UC Riverside. His newest book is God: A Human History
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Guest: Karen Armstrong, a former Roman Catholic nun and British commentator and author known for her numerous books on comparative religion. Her latest is Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
Guest: Peter Stanford, a British writer, editor, journalist and presenter, known for his biographies and writings on religion and ethics. His most recent book is Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle.
Guest: Philip Jenkins, author of Crucible of Faith: The Ancient Revolution That Made Our Modern Religious World.
Guest: Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped From the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Guest: Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of many books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.
Guest: Catherine Nixey is a journalist and a classicist. She is the author of The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World. She is the winner of a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award.
Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the development of early Christianity. He is the author of The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World.
Guest: Violet Moller is a historian and writer who specializes in intellectual history. She is the author of the book The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found.
Guest: Kyle Harper is a historian of the classical world and the Senior Vice President and Provost at his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire.