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David Dault

Host and Executive Producer

 

David got his start in journalism when he was sixteen years old, writing articles for his hometown newspaper.  He's been asking folks questions ever since.  David holds advanced degrees in religious studies from Columbia Theological Seminary and Vanderbilt University.  He currently teaches in the religion department of a small college in Memphis, where he lives with his family.

 


 

Katy Scrogin

Senior Producer - Book and Music Reviews

 

Katy Scrogin is a translator and writer, and holds advanced degrees in religious studies from Vanderbilt University and Claremont Graduate University. Her interest in media has led her to work with Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic in Austin, Texas, and with The Peoples Channel in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She lives in Texas.

 


 

David J Dunn

Producer - Political Commentary

 

David J. Dunn holds multiple degrees in religion, as well as a masters in education.  With an expertise in political theology and theology of economy, David writes on intersections of church and culture from an Orthodox theological perspective. He has published several essays on topics including women’s ordination, re-thinking eucharistic discipline, and church-state relations.  Read his blog at www.davidjdunn.com, and follow him on Twitter @DrDavidJDunn.  He lives in Nashville.

 


 

Alec Badenoch

Producer - Cultural Affairs

 

Alec Badenoch is a historian of media, culture, and technology, with an interest in the meanings of everyday life.  He is the author of Voices in Ruins: West German Radio Across the 1945 Divide, which explores the role of radio broadcasting in reconstructing senses of normal everyday life in post-war Germany, and co-author, with Sarah Moss, of Chocolate: A Global History.  He lives in Leiden, the Netherlands.

 


 

David Merrill

Producer - Film Reviews

 

David Merrill is head of Ronin Production Services and co-founder of FuelFilm Memphis, which sponsors IndieFilm Memphis and the 48-Hour Film Festival.  In his work he provides location management for films, television shows and commercials, along with photographers doing advertising and other magazine shoots. He's lived in Los Angeles. and worked in New York City, but has chosen to call Memphis his home.

 


 

Travis Ables

Producer - Television Reviews

 

Travis Ables had the good fortune to be doing his graduate theological studies while television was entering its post-Sopranos golden age, and he's been following TV culture ever since. As a scholar, he has a particular fascination with mysticism; as a TV viewer and blogger, with science fiction. He suspects those two things might have something to do with each other. Travis teaches theology and history at Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis, where he lives with his family.