Dr. Alan Levinovitz is an Associate Professor of Religion at James Madison University. He works at the intersection of philosophy, religion, and science, focusing especially on how narratives and metaphors shape belief. He is the author of The Gluten Lie and, most recently, Natural, which explores the danger of turning Nature into God. In addition to scholarly journals, his writing has appeared in Aeon, the Atlantic, Slate, the Washington Post, Wired, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.