Welcome to the premier episode of Give & Take, with Scott Jones. It's the podcast where Scott Jones practices the art of conversation with people that make the world a more interesting place to live. Our first guest is David Dark, whose most recent book is entitled Life's Too Short To Pretend You're Not Religious. David Dark (PhD, Vanderbilt University) teaches in the College of Theology at Belmont University and among the incarcerated communities of Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of The Sacredness of Questioning Everything, Everyday Apocalypse and The Gospel According to America. He also contributed to the book Radiohead and Philosophy and has published articles in Pitchfork, Paste, Oxford American, Books and Culture and Christian Century. A frequent speaker, David has appeared on C-SPAN's Book-TV and in the award-winning documentary Marketing the Message. He lives with his singer-songwriter wife, Sarah Masen, and their three children in Nashville.