Matthew (Matt) Recla is the Associate Director of University Foundations (General Education) at Boise State University. He holds a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Matt has published articles in the Journal for the American Academy of Religion, Critical Research on Religion, and Mortality, and contributed a chapter to the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Christian Martyrdom. He resides with his wife and son in beautiful Boise, Idaho.