Bibleproject Classroom

[Juliane Bari]

Afterwe were shown around the office space and had a sneak peek at a few other upcoming projects they had in the works, we were shown to the classroom where we would be spending the next three days exploring the Gospel of John.

The world of Christian theology is often one with seemingly huge barriers to entry. (I mean, have you tried reading a biblical commentary from front to back lately?) But here was a man who firmly believed that the Bible and its truth should not be shrouded in Christian jargon but made simple and bare for all to understand and grasp.

No fanfare. No great announcement. He came in and greeted us personally, by name, evidently having taken the time to read our profiles beforehand, asking us questions about ourselves and taking a genuine interest in who we were and what we did.

When it came time for him to address us all, Tim shared that he always felt that, in his 14 years of studying, what he had learnt should not only be for people who have the resources to go to a seminary, but should be available to all.

The next two days were spent listening to him dive very deep into the Gospel of John and it was clear that this was not just an intellectual exercise but something that impacted Tim personally, even causing him to tear up at one point as he spoke about the cross.

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For almost the past 25 years, August makes me immediately think of back to school. As soon as I turned the calendar page from July to August, I was starting to think about lesson plans, bulletin boards, open house, the list went on and on. Many trips were made to the store for crayons, colored pencils, markers, glue sticks, and construction paper helped to get my first grade classroom ready to welcome students. Yet, the most important thing that I could do to prepare for back to school was to be praying for each student that would be in my classroom.

You may be a teacher, have a child who will be starting preschool or even a child heading to college, or you may not have school-aged kids providing you with a great opportunity to pray for your neighbors, friends, and your local school districts. Or, you may be a teen or college student looking to prepare your own heart at your head back this fall.

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Jnan Blau is a better phan than even Trey is, and as a scholar works at the intersection of Communication, Performance Studies, and Critical Cultural Studies. He has published academically and non-academically on Phish, and is currently co-authoring a book on fandom with a Swiftie and a member of the BTS Army.

Amanda Cadran (PhDJ) is an education researcher, DJ, and certified music nerd. She is the host of the music podcast, All That Jam, which is focused on artists and industry professionals in the jambands community.

Dr. Jake Cohen is a musicologist and part of the planning committee for the Phish Studies conference. He has presented scholarship on Phish at the national meetings of the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music, and has published on Phish in several collections of essays devoted to the band.

Rob Collier is Associate Professor of Music Theory at Alverno College in Milwaukee, WI. He took a 19-year hiatus from Phish between 1999 and 2018 (a 506 show gap) and is happy to be back on the train.

Adelin Cooper is an assistant professor in the Department of Visual Arts and Media at the University of Mount Union. She teaches courses in narrative and documentary storytelling. Her first show was 6.20.95

Leo Costello is Associate Professor and Chair in the Art History Department at Rice University. He studies Romanticism and is the author of JMW Turner and the Subject of History and the forthcoming Early Turner: Seen and Unseen in London, 1795-1819.

Jason Del Gandio (PhD) is a faculty member in the Department of Communication & Social Influence at Temple University. His latest project is www.20minutevibe.com, offering vibe-related content for the intellectually curious.

John Michael DiResta is a theater director, dramaturg, adapter, playwright, and Assistant Professor at Skidmore College. His work focuses on new play dramaturgy, site-responsive theater, community engagement, and queer liberation.

Natalie Dollar, Oregon State University-Cascades, studies musical speech communities, communicating identity, and community dialogue. She has published articles on the pedagogy of community dialogue, dispersed identity modeling, ethnographic approaches to group interaction, and jam band community identity.

Blake Emidy is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Montana. His research looks at the organizational factors that contribute to employee motivation and well-being in the public sector.

Dr. Anna Atefeh Farzindar is a clinical professor at the Computer Science Department, Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles, California. Prior to her current position, she served as a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC) for approximately a decade. She made significant contributions to the fields of AI, Natural Language Processing, Social Media Analysis, Interdisciplinary Data Science and Healthcare Predictive Machine

Andyis an EMS and disaster medicine physician with a background in public health and a penchant for music that elevates the human spirit. Along with a long history of front-line disaster and emergency response, he is now a faculty member at The George Washington University where he runs their academic Emergency Health Services undergraduate program.

Ellis Godard is an Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University Northridge, where he primarily teaches Statistics, Research Methods, Sociology of Law, and Deviance. He is a founding board member and the volunteer Executive Director of the Mockingbird Foundation and has played various roles at Phish.net since c1992.

Denise Goldman is an adjunct professor of writing and research at Long Island University in Brookville, NY. Her research on online communities has informed her approach to teaching genre awareness. In addition to teaching, Denise also works as a college admissions coach while raising two kids and two dogs. Her first show was 10/30/92.

Rena Grosser is an Early Childhood Educator at Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School in Chicago. She has a background in art therapy and art education. She completed her undergraduate studies at Queens College and received her Masters in Creative Arts Therapy from Hofstra University. Rena is also an artist and believes in the creative process as a model and tool for self expression and exploration. She is a mother of 3 and lives with her family in Evanston, IL.

Kristin and Charles Harper founded the solestus artist collective in 2022 to create digital artwork for NFTs. Using a new style known as light painting, solestus explores the liminal spaces of our everyday lives through abstract impressionist and expressionist digital photography.

Paul Jakus is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at Utah State University. A Phish fan for more than three decades, he has published numerous studies focusing on public lands, water quality, and outdoor recreation.

Stephanie Jenkins is an associate professor of philosophy in the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion at Oregon State University and a volunteer director of the Mockingbird Foundation. In addition to publishing and editing in moral philosophy, she is co-editor of the Public Philosophy Journal special issue devoted to Phish and has taught a Phish and Philosophy course at OSU since 2014.

Magdalena Wanda Kazmierowski is a born helper and the least subtle Phish fan. She has spent most of her life as a supportive force behind the scenes in comedy and entertainment, and is thrilled to contribute her skills towards helping make the Phish community, and ultimately the world, a better, lovelier, more connected place.

Oren Kroll-Zeldin is the assistant director of the Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice where is also an assistant professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. He is the co-editor with Ariella Werden-Greenfield of This Is Your Song Too: Phish and Contemporary Jewish Identity.

Lizzy Layne is a Creative Director, Artist, and Lot Lizard, specializing in graphic design, painting, and printmaking. Lizzy has been making concert posters and fan art for over 15 years and is thrilled to share her art at the retrospective show during the 2024 Phish Studies Conference.

Dr. Radha Lewis is a board-certified family physician with a focus on preventative medicine and holistic solutions to health-related problems. She has been providing primary care services to Bay Area patients for over twenty years.

Matthew B. Lynch is an Instructor in the School of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at Oregon State University. His primary research is on religion and mysticism in medieval Muslim societies, with a particular interest in how communities are constructed through authority and scripture.

Dr. Chaone Mallory has taught and published widely in the field of Ecofeminist Philosophy, and is a Grateful Dead scholar and a Deadhead who is just beginning her foray into Phish scholarship, despite being a 1.0er. Chaone engages in the life of the polis by attending live music events as often as possible, joining in the antics of the Merry Pranksters, and playing music with others.

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