• Jordan Miller

    Dr. Jordan E. Miller is the education and training coordinator for The Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association. Additionally, he is a community organizer, interdisciplinary teacher, and scholar who specializes in religion, social movements, and resistance studies. He has a Ph.D. in the interdisciplinary humanities from Salve Regina University in Rhode Island and an M.A. in philosophy of religion from Boston University. He is the co-chair of the Seminar on God and the Human Future and a Think Tank Analyst at The Westar Institute. Miller is the author of Resisting Theology, Furious Hope: Secular Political Theology and Social Movements (2019) and he is the co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Theology (2018).

  • Matthew Baker

    Matthew Baker formerly hosted and produced The Catacombic Machine and War Machine podcasts. By profession, Matt is a project manager, as well as a graphic, audio, and instructional designer fluent with adult learning, UX/UI, and multiple delivery models including blended learning, instructor-led training, WBT, OJT, job aides, and e-learning. In 2020 Matt started Entheos Designs which in 2021 will transition to a cooperative model supporting professional artists while offering a complete range of media services. He holds degrees in Instructional Design, Applied Physics, and Organizational Management. ——————————————————————————————————————————

Interrupted is the podcast of the Westar Institute and a project arising out of Westar’s Think Tank.

About Westar

Bridging the gap between scholarship of religion and popular culture.

  • Westar conducts collaborative, cumulative research seminars with scholars in the academic field of religion.

  • Westar communicates the results of its research in non-technical terms to equip the general public with critical thinking skills.

Westar Institute — home of the Jesus Seminar — is dedicated to fostering and communicating the results of cutting-edge scholarship on the history and evolution of the Christian tradition, thereby raising the level of public discourse about questions that matter in society and culture.

Westar Institute fosters collaborative, cumulative research in religious studies and communicates the results of the scholarship to a broad, non-specialist public.