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Phyllis Tickle founded Publishers Weekly’s Religion Department and has written numerous books about modern American Christianity, including The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and…

Scott Douglas, III, is the Executive Director of Greater Birmingham Ministries, an interfaith organization in Birmingham, Alabama. GBM provides poverty relief, lobbies to reform Alabama’s…

Dr. Joseph Tainter is an anthropologist and historian who has studied collapse in numerous ancient civilizations and penned The Collapse of Complex Societies. This is…

Alexander Rose is the Executive Director of the Long Now Foundation, a San Francisco-based group dedicated to encouraging long-term thinking. He is also the foundation’s…