Graceful Atheist Podcast Creators & Guests

David Ames is trying to be the Graceful Atheist.After twenty some odd years of being a Christian his faith broke down in 2015. He could no longer sustain belief. Having had faith he still respects and cares for those who remain in their faith. Having lost it he is interested in finding evidence based truth. He wants to discover and communicate the subtleties of why some believe, some do not and some change their minds.David lives his life based on Secular Grace after Deconversion.

Jonathan Steingard (born 1983) is a Canadian musician who was the lead vocalist and lead guitarist for the Christian pop-punk band Hawk Nelson which he joined in October 2004, replacing the former guitarist David Clark. He took over vocal duties upon Jason Dunn's departure in March 2012.

Alice Greczyn is an actress, author, and founder of Dare to Doubt, a resource site for people detaching from belief systems they come to find harmful. She is Midwest-raised and LA-based.

Co-host of the ReasonPress podcasts Still Unbelievable! and Proscenium.

Michael is interested in pretty much anything having to do with truth and meaning, and in most things related to spirituality (by which he mainly means our human relationships to anything conceptually larger than what we can comprehend--which ends up being almost everything).He thinks fundamentalism and extremism are the antitheses of these ideas and are two of the most dangerous creations of humanity.If we are to survive the future we're creating for ourselves, we will need to understand ourselves better.

He/him, queer, poly, atheist, leftist minister of The Gospel. Confused? Good.#BLM #exvangelical #dearchurch

Derek Webb is a singer-songwriter who first entered the music industry as a member of the band Caedmon's Call, and later embarked on a successful solo career.

Thinker into how we experience things, ourselves, life, existence, God. Background in Torah, philosophy, linguistics, math, science, music.

Brian Blais is a Scientist, Skeptic, and Professor at Bryant University and research scientist at Brown University. His work spans areas in statistical inference, paleoclimate, computational neuroscience, and dynamical simulation.

Jennifer Michael Hecht is a teacher, author, poet, historian, and philosopher.

Sasha Sagan is a writer who has also worked as a television producer, filmmaker, editor, and speaker. Her writing has appeared in New York Magazine, O Magazine, Literary Hub, and others.

She is an artist and a mystic working in photography, written word, soft pastels, and watercolor.