Podcasts by Humanize Me
A podcast about making the most of this life by reframing your story, building better relationships, and cultivating wonder and gratitude. Hosted by longtime counselor and community builder Bart Campolo, the show features warm, thoughtful conversations about generating love and meaning in a universe that doesn’t always provide it.
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819: _______giving! from 2023-11-20T22:37:32
Thanksgiving is here in the United States, set aside for the emotion of gratitude. We wonder what other emotions would be worth setting aside some time to express? Mentioned in the episode: Listen
818: 'My truth' v 'The truth' from 2023-10-31T21:01:31
A 'Q&R' episode where a listener question about truth leads to morality via Dan Dennett.
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817: We of Little Faith, with Kate Cohen from 2023-10-11T16:33:27
Kate Cohen is a contributing columnist at The Washington Post whose new book, We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (And Maybe You Should Too), is of obvious interest to us at ...
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816: A conversation across the faith divide, with Philip Yancey from 2023-09-06T15:40:26
Bart talks with prominent evangelical Christian author Philip Yancey, whose books have been instrumental in supporting the faith of many Christians and whose recent memoir, Where the Light Fell,...
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815: Revisiting anti-natalism... should people have children? from 2023-08-28T20:02:49
Is it right, or not, to have biological children? The last time Bart addressed this issue in the podcast (Episode 514), it generated lots of passionate replies, including one listener in particu...
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814: The Practice of Belonging, with Lisa Kentgen from 2023-08-08T19:10:14
Back from a summer vacation and into a wide-ranging conversation with Lisa Kentgen, a psychologist who's written a book called The Practice of Belonging: Six Lessons from Vibrant Communities...
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813: Criminal justice reform, with Robert Rooks from 2023-07-03T10:34
Robert Rooks is the CEO of REFORM Alliance, a criminal justice organization focused on transforming probation and parole systems. In this conversation with Bart Campolo, he talks about seeing th...
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812: Worship the creator, not the created? from 2023-06-18T10:32:22
A listener asks: "Hi Bart, I just want to encourage you by communicating how much your podcast has helped me and is sustaining me in my deconversion journey. In your conversation earlier th...
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811: Religious naturalism, with Ursula Goodenough from 2023-06-05T10:18:21
They say you should never meet your heroes, but this conversation with Ursula Goodenough proves definitively that it isn't always true! Bart first read Ursula's book, The Sacred Depths o...
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810: The implications of AI for humanists from 2023-05-15T15:50:09
It was only a matter of time before we got drawn into the burgeoning conversation about recent advances in artificial intelligence. A listener called Steve asks: "What do you think are the ...
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809: Morality for the rest of us, with Todd May from 2023-05-01T10:22:52
You’re probably never going to be a saint. Even so, let’s face it: you could be a better person. We all could. Todd May is a philosopher whose work brings high-minded philosophical concepts - li...
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808: Consciousness and liberal Christian friends from 2023-04-17T09:44:39
Two questions are posed to Bart, the first of which he declines to answer! Iain McGilchrist is one of several prominent thinkers who seem to suggest that consciousness is a fundamental of the un...
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807: Strange Customs, with Sasha Sagan from 2023-04-04T20:37:03
Sasha Sagan is an author and now a podcaster who is intensely curious about the rituals, traditions, norms and practices which help define communities of people. When we had her on the podcast i...
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806: How surprised would you be by an afterlife? from 2023-03-23T14:04:24
After Bart's deconversion from Christianity, he has been a 'naturalist', lacking belief in any of the proposed deities and supernatural ideas. But how satisfied is he that he's r...
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805: How God becomes real, with TM Luhrmann from 2023-03-15T22:11:47
We've recently been wondering about the movement in Kentucky that has become known as the 'Asbury revival', and the mass religious experiences that have been reported there in the last couple of...
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804: How to think about Effective Altruism from 2023-02-20T17:16:01
“Hey Bart, I came across an article on Vox talking about the movement known as Effective Altruism, and the fall of one of its star advocates, cryptocurrency exchange owner Sam Bankman-Fried. The...
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803: How the Bible shapes society, with Bart Ehrman from 2023-02-06T15:15:30
We're joined by leading bible scholar Bart Ehrman, who has written many New York Times best-selling books on the Bible and related topics. This conversation is, in Ehrman's own summation, a blen...
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802: Bart is sick, but here's a hopeful thought from 2023-01-19T19:41:02
In lieu of a full episode this time, here's a short, hopeful thought from a sick-sounding Bart Campolo.
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801: The ingredients of a good media diet, with Vanessa Otero from 2023-01-02T11:36:47
Awash in a sea of information and misinformation, most of us don't know how to navigate today's media landscape, especially when it comes to news. How do we know what sources we can trust? And a...
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Bonus Episode 6: Here's to 2023! from 2022-12-26T10:00:58
Every month we release a bonus episode to supporters of the podcast on Patreon. These episodes are more personal and relaxed, with 'meta' reflect...
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720: I wasn't with my grandfather at the end from 2022-12-16T11:05:52
Bart and John respond to a question from a listener who, despite knowing her grandfather was going to die, missed his final moments and feels deep regret about it. Bart suggests she look at it a...
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719: The re-conversion of The Voice winner Josh Kaufman from 2022-12-02T09:28:03
Josh Kaufman won NBC’s The Voice in 2014 after wowing the talent show’s judges and audience with his soulful vocals and charisma. After getting an email from him recently, Bart invited Josh on t...
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718: How do I deal with difficult holiday conversations? from 2022-11-18T10:30:55
Bart answers a question from a listener who is nervous going into a fraught holiday gathering. In the process we talk about some tools that may be prepared for use beforehand.
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406: Pro-semitism, with the hosts of Unorthodox from 2022-11-11T10:00:02
After a recent rise in talk of antisemitism, we couldn't help but think about this classic episode of Humanize Me featuring the hosts of the Unorthodox podcast, Mark Oppenheimer, Stephanie Butni...
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717: My Big Fat Recovery, with Molly Robbins from 2022-11-04T16:01:43
Our bodies are tied up with so much - beauty standards, phobias, obsessions and stigmas - and we think there are more and less humanizing ways to talk and think about them. Molly Robbins was the...
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716: My bad habits while alone make me feel bad about myself! from 2022-10-21T09:35:07
Bart answers a question from a listener whose habits while living alone make her feel bad about herself. Bart thinks he may have some solid humanist advice as a first step.
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715: A listener's abortion story from 2022-10-07T10:00:22
Cian is a listener of Humanize Me. He and his wife Krista got in touch to talk about the very tangible and personal way the U.S. Supreme Court’s strike-down of Roe v Wade hit them after they end...
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714: Five questions and a tree from 2022-09-16T10:00:59
What’s wrong with Rotary? Does religion comfort people in hard times? Is it wrong to want my wife to stop pleasuring herself? How do you find a good media diet? Should I support my friend as she...
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713: Childish Things, with Dave Warnock from 2022-09-09T10:00:24
Bart welcomes back Dave Warnock, who had a memorable first appearance in 2019 (Episode 419). They talk about his recently released memoir, his deconversion from Christianity and later diagnosis ...
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712: Thoughtful meandering with William Deresiewicz from 2022-09-02T10:00:19
Bart enjoys a wide-ranging conversation with Bill Deresiewicz that touches on solitude, moral goodness, the value of the arts, the interplay of power, rituals and practices, fundamentalisms and ...
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711: How to create meaning this weekend from 2022-08-19T10:00:45
Fine, a listener says, you've sold me on the concept that life can be meaningful even if there isn't a grand design involved. But how do we actually do it? Bart and John discuss.
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710: What can play teach us about our fellow humans? from 2022-08-05T10:00:11
Game designer Logan Dean talks with Bart about the nature of play, storytelling, community, competitiveness and how playing games can help us understand others.
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704: On open relationships from 2022-04-15T21:22:48
Bart muses an experience he's seen shared in therapy sessions recently: a former Christian who, in the process of re-evaluating their lives, begins to consider opening their relationship. Is it a g...
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703: Should I let news about the war stress me out? from 2022-03-26T00:59:55
After a podcast hiatus, Bart and John attempt to answer this listener question:
"When I read about the war in Ukraine, I find my stress level rising. I guess I could just avoid the news,...
702: Reflecting on the state of the evangelical movement from 2022-01-20T19:25:51
Bart reflects on the state of the evangelical movement he was once a part of, particularly by taking a moment to see it through his father Tony's lens.
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701: Talking to Crazy, with Dr. Mark Goulston from 2022-01-11T20:25:50
How should we deal with irrational or difficult people? And what are some good strategies for establishing healthy boundaries with such people in our lives?
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620: Some people are hard to feel empathy for from 2021-12-28T00:36:47
Let's be honest: some people just don't inspire our empathy! In this last episode of 2021, Bart responds to a post on the Humanize Me Facebook Group, in which a woman feels unempathetic about conse...
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619: We're creating meaning as we speak! from 2021-12-07T00:07:39
Bart with a solo episode on how we create meaning in our lives, and get access to meaning as we live in connection to the universe.
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618: Should we form friendships with people who don't share our values? with Chrissy Stroop from 2021-11-02T18:37:19
Chrissy Stroop is a writer and scholar who, despite being an 'exvangelical', remains interested in, and critical of, evangelical culture. When she recently mentioned Bart Campolo in an article, we ...
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617: Re-evaluating time in Christian urban ministry from 2021-10-18T23:58:17
Bart responds to a question from a listener who wants to know why he doesn't talk more about his time as a Christian minister in poor urban neighborhoods, and what his experiences make him think ab...
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616: Using emotional intelligence like a hostage negotiator, with Derek Gaunt from 2021-09-23T20:44:23
Derek Gaunt in an educator and author with 20 years of experience as a hostage negotiator for law enforcement agencies in the Washington DC metro area.
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615: Recorded live at the Wild Goose Festival from 2021-09-12T21:15:41
Bart tells his story at the progressive Christian Wild Goose Festival.
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614: Mental blocks from 2021-09-09T16:49:51
Bart talks about a 'combo platter' leading to a big mental block recently, and asks whether we can learn to overcome them more effectively when they happen.
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613: Mental Immunity, with Andy Norman from 2021-07-18T00:08:55
Does the mind have an immune system? It turns out it does, according to Andy Norman, who applies the emerging science of cognitive immunology to our divided, post-truth culture. In this conversatio...
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612: Life after lockdown from 2021-07-02T18:24:04
Bart and John talk about the current status of life in a waning pandemic, including: the psychology of lockdown, the permanency or otherwise of the changes, appetite for social life, impact on infa...
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611: Israel and Palestine, with Salwa Duaibis and Gerard Horton from 2021-06-01T02:04:19
Before recent events in Israel and Palestine, Bart Campolo had this conversation with Salwa and Gerard of an organization called Military Court Watch in Jerusalem. In it, we hear about Salwa's expe...
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610: Do you believe in miracles? from 2021-05-22T00:20:51
Bart and John discuss the a question from a listener called Paolo about believing in miracles. Even though he has many issues with the rational case for Christianity, Paolo's own experiences make h...
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609: Lost Connections, with Johann Hari from 2021-05-01T02:48:58
Johann Hari is an international best-selling author, journalist and thinker who has written two books we especially love: Chasing the Scream (about drugs and addiction) and Lost Connections (about ...
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608: Transgender listener calls us out... from 2021-04-15T20:59
...in the nicest possible way. On a recent episode, Bart Campolo casually referred to a bar full of people you might like to strike up a conversation with, saying, "There's a woman, there's a man, ...
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607: Political Junkies, with Claire Potter from 2021-04-09T21:27:44
How do we recapture political nuance, thoughtfulness and open-mindedness at a time when alternative media has hooked us on politics and broke our democracy?
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606: Secular communities survey, with Joe Blankholm from 2021-03-19T15:42:55
Bart talks to Joe Blankholm, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who with his colleagues is conducting a survey of secular communities across the United States.
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605: Connection after deconstruction from 2021-03-03T19:41:15
From a listener:
"I left my faith about 14 years ago. It has been a lonely experience, especially since back then, there wasn't the same connections through the internet that there are n...
604: Constructive disagreements, with David C. Smalley from 2021-02-17T00:03:37
How can we learn to have our disagreements across ideological divides more constructively and respectfully? David C. Smalley may be something of an expert at this point, having conducted hundreds o...
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603: Thoughts on the Inauguration from 2021-01-22T02:19:17
Bart and John share thoughts about the Inauguration of President Biden, the emotions it raises, what is entailed in turning the page as a nation, how to begin to bring Trump's most fervent supporte...
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602: Coping with insecurity, with songwriter Ali Tamposi from 2021-01-14T22:35:47
What does it take to cope in a high-pressure, competitive environment... without falling into harmful behavior? Ali Tamposi is a grammy-nominated songwriter who has written for some of the biggest ...
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601: Progressive Christians ALWAYS become atheists, with Konrad Benjamin from 2021-01-07T16:35:09
Bart joins Konrad Benjamin, host of the Australian podcast Ideas Digest, to talk about why he isn't a progressive Christian but rather a secular humanist, and to assert that they ALWAYS become athe...
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601: Progressive Christians ALWAYS become atheists, with Konrad Benjamin from 2021-01-07T16:35:09
Bart joins Konrad Benjamin, host of the Australian podcast Ideas Digest, to talk about why he isn't a progressive Christian but rather a secular humanist, and to assert that they ALWAYS become athe...
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530: A very COVID Christmas from 2020-12-18T21:40:10
A coronavirus story, Bart’s contention that Christmas should be once every 4 years, and a reminder that life isn’t ‘supposed to’ be perfect.
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529: Better conversations II, with David Fleischer from 2020-12-07T18:51:30
The second of two classic installments of this podcast that we’re posting on the topic of better conversations. Last week, we heard about the method called 'street epistemology'. This time, we're h...
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528: Better conversations, with Anthony Magnabosco from 2020-12-01T01:53:09
In a reprise of this classic conversation with Anthony Magnabosco, we talk about a conversational tool which can change the course - and productivity - of those most difficult exchanges, the ones b...
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527: Stream of consciousness from 2020-11-17T18:04:06
Bart gives a stream-of-consciousness update from under his rock, including stark thoughts about the recent attempted suicide of a close friend, an unexpected gift from another, and an attempt to re...
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526: Re-Enchantment, with Daniel Shkolnik from 2020-10-21T23:57:53
This week we air Bart's interview on the podcast Re-Enchantment with host Daniel Shkolnik. We don't do this often, but we liked this interview a lot, and Daniel is a guy committed to the ideas we s...
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526: Re-Enchantment, with Daniel Shkolnik from 2020-10-21T23:57:53
This week we air Bart's interview on the podcast Re-Enchantment with host Daniel Shkolnik. We don't do this often, but we liked this interview a lot, and Daniel is a guy committed to the ideas we s...
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525: Similar values, but contentious under the hood from 2020-10-05T16:35:23
Bart and John attempt to answer a listener question whose family, despite practically compatible values, insists on framing everything with respect to their religious beliefs. This is causing conte...
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524: Lessons from Haiti, with John Engle from 2020-09-28T21:20:34
John Engle, known for his work with Haiti Partners, joins Bart to answer the question, "What have you learned from your work in Haiti that may be relevant to the tough times we're going through her...
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523: The Death of the Artist, with Bill Deresiewicz from 2020-09-10T00:23:31
Bill Deresiewicz is an award-winning essayist and critic who has written a new book. The book warns that the art we all love - music, books, films and much more - is in jeopardy. Based on his own d...
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523: The Death of the Artist, with Bill Deresiewicz from 2020-09-10T00:23:31
Bill Deresiewicz is an award-winning essayist and critic who has written a new book. The book warns that the art we all love - music, books, films and much more - is in jeopardy. Based on his own d...
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522: How should a humanist respond to the Falwell scandal? from 2020-08-31T21:40:40
A scandal for the ages has emerged about of one of the most prominent evangelical Christian leaders of the Trump era. In this episode, Bart and John attempt to answer the question, "What would make...
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521: Christian culture, authenticity and Mega, with Holly Laurent and Greg Hess from 2020-08-26T15:19:13
Mega is an improvised satire from the staff of a fictional mega church, hosted by Holly Laurent and Greg Hess.
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520: Speech, tolerance and open debates, with Mark Oppenheimer (Part 2) from 2020-08-11T19:57:30
In this Part 2 with Mark Oppenheimer, recorded later after both had listened back to their first conversation, Mark and Bart return to take the earlier convo in a practical direction.
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519: 'Tragic optimism' by Esther Perel, unauthorized edit by Bart Campolo from 2020-08-05T23:04:04
A recent blog post by Esther Perel caught Bart Campolo's eye. In this brief, bonus episode, Bart reads his unauthorized edit of Perel's piece, which is about what we've lost in the pandemic, and ho...
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518: Speech, tolerance and open debates, with Mark Oppenheimer (Part 1) from 2020-08-03T22:39:04
Mark Oppenheimer is a friend of this podcast who is a signatory to a recent open letter published by Harper's Magazine, in praise of open debate and tolerance for differing opinions, and against so...
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517: Is intimacy possible between people who have different worldviews? from 2020-07-20T19:38:59
"Hi Bart, I know in your podcast you talk a lot about people in 'suddenly interfaith' marriages, where one is a believer and the other has since left, and obviously there are obstacles, but what I ...
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516: Should we deconvert people on the brink? with Leah Helbling from 2020-07-01T03:32:47
Leah Helbling is a close friend of Humanize Me and a member of the team at the humanist community Cincinnati Caravan with Bart Campolo.
In this episode, the two chat about Leah's instinc...
515: Facing up to collective trauma from 2020-06-15T21:20:23
In this solo episode, Bart talks about seeing the current wave of protest and uprising - the most significant moment ever for the Black Lives Matter movement - in the context of collective trauma.<...
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514: What are we to make of anti-natalism? from 2020-05-23T23:10:37
After talking a bit about insomnia, shaking hands with a local dog owner and dating in the pandemic, we turn to a voicemail asking Bart's opinion of anti-natalism, the philosophical position that a...
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513: Heaven and hell, with Bart Ehrman from 2020-05-13T19:27:53
Where did our popular ideas of heaven and hell come from? Did Jesus teach a doctrine of eternal torture? How did our ideas of the afterlife evolve?
Bart Ehrman is the author of over 30 b...
512: Missing Jesus in the pandemic from 2020-05-04T20:21:30
"Hey Bart. As I grew up, prayer was touted as the answer to everything. Now with the shutdowns and loss associated with COVID-19, I still miss the feeling I had when I could 'give it all to Jesus.'...
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511: Aftermath of Roman, and relationships in lockdown from 2020-04-20T15:20:48
Bart reflects on two recent episodes that have generated the most mail ever for this podcast, and offers some thoughts on how to improve relationships during this extended lockdown.
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510: "You're out to ******* lunch, dad," with Roman Campolo from 2020-04-09T22:56:22
It's been a hard week for Bart! Episode 509 of this podcast featured his conversation with Michael Dowd, a fellow 'apocalyoptimist' who shares Bart's belief that a great societal collapse is inevit...
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509: Post doom, with Michael Dowd from 2020-04-04T23:08:59
Three years ago to the week, Michael Dowd talked with Bart on this podcast about our modern way of life, sustainability and the future of civilization. When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Bart could...
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508: Connecting from afar from 2020-03-26T23:42:15
Bart and John are socially distancing, like most of America. What does that mean for our all-important human connections? In this episode, Bart talks about his humanist community, Caravan in Cincin...
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507: Initial thoughts on an emerging global crisis from 2020-03-18T00:31:13
It was a bad week to be away. But while Bart Campolo was gone on a family trip, the world changed. After coming back, Bart shares his thoughts about the emerging global crisis being caused by COVID...
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506: When to tell people you've deconverted, and 2 other questions from 2020-03-03T21:08:53
On this Q&A episode of the podcast, we take 3 questions in a row!
Question 1 is about why Bart decided to tell his parents he wasn't a Christian anymore at the time he did, and how the c...
505: A journey in human rights, with Greg Asbed from 2020-02-24T00:17:17
Greg Asbed is a human rights strategist developing a new model—worker-driven social responsibility (WSR) for improving conditions for low-wage workers within the twenty-first-century labor market.<...
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504: In the pew but questioning from 2020-02-10T20:19:46
Bart takes a call from a questioning Christian looking for advice on who and what to listen to. It's a reminder that our listeners aren't all in the same place on their religious journey, and Bart ...
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503: Rituals and our nature, with Sasha Sagan from 2020-02-03T03:22:37
In previous episodes of this podcast, we've established that rituals are important. But why? And how is it connected to our own nature, and the nature around us? Sasha Sagan has written a book all ...
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502: On answering your questions from 2020-01-22T18:47:20
Bart Campolo has been a counselor in one context or another for many decades. As listeners to this podcast, we invite you to submit your questions! Are you looking for advice about a relationship i...
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501: 'A Cripple's Dance', with Gabriel "Freaque" Rodreick from 2020-01-14T06:04:55
'How are you not freaking out?' is the question Gabe asks in one of the two songs we play in this inaugural episode of 2020. Gabe is an artist, musician, poet and more. His C5 spinal injury, incurr...
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439: Faith and the post-believer from 2019-12-30T16:37:58
It's an end-of-the-year podcast from Bart Campolo, who answers a question from a listener called John.
John wants to know whether faith (of a sort) can still be useful for a post-Christi...
438: Christian climate skeptics and why rhetoric matters, with Emma Bloomfield from 2019-12-23T22:12:46
Emma Bloomfield researches the intersection of science and religious rhetoric, particularly around issues of climate change, human origins and the body.
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437: Three questions about navigating the holidays after faith from 2019-12-06T22:22:38
Thanksgiving has been and gone, and now we're into a whole month of Christmas in America. How does one navigate a time that can be very tricky for those who have deconverted from faith? As one list...
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436: A Christian with 'Zero Theology', with John Tucker from 2019-11-13T21:55:32
John Tucker used to be a literalist Christian, but says he has now rejected the 'belief paradigm' to move beyond either accepting or rejecting the claims of religion.
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435:Thought-provoking science fiction from 2019-11-05T19:47:04
It's a Q&A episode! And this week, the question is:
"Hey Bart, you humanists seem to really love science, so I’m wondering... do you love science fiction too? If so, what do you love and...
434: Unveiled, with Yasmine Mohammed from 2019-10-25T22:09:59
Yasmine Mohammed wore the hijab from the age of 9, but never felt comfortable as a Muslim. Now, having been out of the faith for many years, she's able to reflect on her remarkable life, on the Isl...
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433: Should it worry me that the government is demonizing secular people? from 2019-10-17T07:23:20
The question being asked this week:
"Hey Bart, I listened to a speech by Attorney General William Barr at Notre Dame University, in which he denounced ‘militant secularists’ and said the...
432: The meaning of cartoons, with Josh "Phantom" Strider from 2019-10-08T18:30:03
Josh "Phantom" Strider is an Australian YouTuber known for his commentary on cartoons. He's also an avid listener of the Humanize Me podcast and one of our supporters on Patreon!
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431: SALMAGUNDI! from 2019-09-24T18:49:48
A solo podcast by Bart Campolo with poetry, songs and nepotism.
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430: What It Means to Be Moral, with Phil Zuckerman from 2019-09-09T20:39:39
How do we decide whether it's good or bad to intervene in global warming or growing inequality? Or how to treat our dog? Phil Zuckerman has written a new book giving a foundational framework for se...
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429: Changing Minds Part II, with David Fleischer from 2019-08-27T20:27:13
In Episode 423 of this podcast, David Fleischer talked with Bart Campolo about changing minds with the methodology of 'deep canvassing.'
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428: High profile deconversions and secular 'churches' from 2019-08-19T19:30:18
In this episode of Humanize Me, Bart Campolo and John Wright talk about two recent deconversions from Christianity and a recent article by Faith Hill in The Atlantic which looks at the trajectory o...
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427: Recovering from Religion, with Gayle Jordan from 2019-08-06T22:50:07
Gayle Jordan is the Executive Director of the nonprofit organization Recovering from Religion, which connects people with support on their journeys out of religious faith.
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426: Most meaningful episodes of other podcasts from 2019-08-01T20:01:31
In this episode, Bart Campolo talks about the most meaningful or humanizing episodes of other podcasts. It's 20 minutes of thoughtful recommendations! Here are the individual episodes we recommend ...
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425: Fathers and their sons, with Roman Campolo from 2019-07-26T19:56:28
Not every family allows you to listen in on their personal conversations. But in this episode, Bart Campolo sits down with his son Roman where they talk about fathers and sons, Bart's relationship ...
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424: Making the most of life, with Hemant Mehta from 2019-07-15T18:33:16
This classic conversation with The Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta, is one of the most shared episodes we've ever done. Hemant talks with Bart Campolo about squeezing more life out of our awareness ...
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423: How to change someone's mind, with David Fleischer from 2019-07-05T16:27:03
Want to change someone's mind? David Fleischer, of the Los Angeles LGBT Center, has discovered more reliably than perhaps anybody else how to do it. As he puts it:
"We’re the first to r...
422: What if I find other people boring? from 2019-06-26T16:09:16
On Episode 420, we answered a question from a listener about gaining confidence in social situations. Bart Campolo's advice centered around showing curiosity in others, and making the interactions ...
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421: 'Leaving the Witness', with Amber Scorah from 2019-06-18T20:43:46
Amber Scorah was raised as a Jehovah's Witness. She tells the story of her 'deconversion' in her book, 'Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life', available on Amazon here: Listen
420: How to be confident in social situations from 2019-06-12T00:13:59
This question is one about confidence:
"I love the stuff you guys are doing about friendship, but I think it assumes a level of confidence in social situations that I don’t feel. How do ...
419: Restoration after tragedy, with Dr. Kate Wiebe from 2019-06-05T20:17:17
When a tragedy happens, people tend to run from the pain. Dr. Kate Wiebe runs toward it. Kate is the founder and director of the Institute for Trauma and Growth, which started with a focus on faith...
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418: How to grow your inner circle from 2019-05-30T19:33:01
On this week's episode of Humanize Me, Bart Campolo answers this question:
"I just read an article saying that, like me, the average American has just one close friend, and 1 in 4 of us ...
417: Dave Warnock is dying out loud from 2019-05-24T18:26:43
“I’m in no hurry to exit this world. I love this world, I love life, I love people, I love community, I love humanity, I love conversations, I love sex, I love all the things that make life good. I...
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416: Why do we hurt those we love? from 2019-05-08T00:46:01
Why are we meanest to those we're closest to? 'Facebook Bob' asks whether we're monsters for this tendency, or whether we simply don't think there'll be any significant consequences for lashing out...
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415: The social impact of the internet, with Hank Green from 2019-05-01T20:59:33
Way back in April 2017, Hank Green joined us on the podcast. But chances are, many of you who listen in 2019 have never heard it! On this week's episode, Bart Campolo introduces that conversation, ...
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414: Where was Bart last week? Grief and the Platinum Rule from 2019-04-24T03:15:23
Where was Bart last week, why didn't he answer anyone's emails or calls, and why didn't we release a new episode of the podcast? That's what producer John Wright demands to know at the start of thi...
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413: Help! My daughter is interested in a boy! from 2019-04-10T22:29:50
A listener question prompts Bart Campolo to give some advice about how to open up good conversations with your children about sex and relationships.
Our listener is the mother of a 12 ye...
412: Don't panic about porn! with Dr. Marty Klein from 2019-04-05T01:50:58
Sex expert and therapist Dr. Marty Klein has a lot to say about pornography. In this conversation with Bart Campolo, Marty talks about porn and relationships, how people are ultimately responsible ...
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411: Why don't you become a Unitarian Universalist? from 2019-03-27T00:39:11
A listener named Benjamin calls to ask why Bart feels the need to 'reinvent the wheel' with secular community-building, rather than simply join a Unitarian Universalist congregation. Benjamin says ...
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410: Insights of an openly atheist minister, with Gretta Vosper from 2019-03-19T21:25:02
Gretta Vosper is an ordained minister of the United Church of Canada who, as a self-professed atheist, has survived an official review from her denomination and continues to serve as the pastor of ...
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409: Climate change - a redo! from 2019-03-12T18:14:21
In episode 407, Bart and John attempted to answer the question of a 15 year-old listener who wondered aloud why people aren't freaking out more, and doing more, about climate change.
In ...
408: Is the paranormal proof of transcendent consciousness? with Mark Gober from 2019-03-07T19:02:12
Bart Campolo is a materialist, which means that he thinks that the physical universe and its movements are the basis of all reality, and that human consciousness, morality, meaning and everything e...
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407: How to cope with coming apocalypse from 2019-02-19T16:10:32
The earth is in trouble and nobody seems to care. That's the observation of Josie, 15, who called the podcast after hearing more and more about humanity's biggest challenges during science class:
406: Is pro-semitism a thing? with the hosts of Unorthodox from 2019-02-14T16:48:46
Is it even a word? Bart Campolo’s reaction to the anti-semitic shooting in Pittsburg was to reach out to his Jewish friends and ask how they were doing. It made him wonder if there is a way to be a...
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405: Bart has a new community idea from 2019-02-06T17:55:28
A letter this week from a listener who says he's hungry for community with like-minded secular people is just the latest one like it. But this one couldn't have come at a better time, or landed on ...
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404: A deep dive into pyrotheology, with Peter Rollins from 2019-01-29T22:33:41
You can be forgiven for not being familiar with 'pyrotheology', the lifelong philosophy project of Peter Rollins.
In this episode of Humanize Me, Bart Campolo attempts a philosophical de...
403: Can insignificance be liberating? from 2019-01-22T19:25:05
One of our listeners read an interview with Conan O'Brien in the New York Times last week. He sent us this excerpt:
NYT: Is this how you want to go out, with a show that gets smaller and...
402: A humanist congregation, local issues, with James Croft from 2019-01-17T05:53:01
James Croft is the Outreach Director of the Ethical Society of St. Louis, a longstanding humanist congregation, and one of the largest in the world.
In this conversation with Bart Campol...
401: Reflections from a new grandfather from 2019-01-08T18:27:02
It's a new year! A time for fresh ideas and new beginnings, and so much has been happening in Bart Campolo's life that this episode serves as an update and a reflection on various themes, including...
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338: Ho ho ho! from 2018-12-22T16:13:22
A quick Christmas greeting from Bart Campolo, urging secular folks like himself to embrace the holiday for what it is, and be their best humanist selves during the season.
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337: An old friend and a worldview challenged, with Matthew Rodreick from 2018-12-12T02:44:52
Bart Campolo's oldest and closest friend, Matthew Rodreick, is this week's guest on the podcast. Matthew's life has been shaped by his son Gabe's spinal cord injury, sustained around a decade ago w...
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336: Is there a truly selfless act? from 2018-12-04T06:58:01
Today's caller was in line at a drive-through coffee place, and decided to pay for the people behind her in line. But she realized that, in the course of doing so, the rewarding feeling she got fro...
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335: Is spiritual language disappearing? with Jonathan Merritt from 2018-11-28T00:20:55
Language really shapes how we think about things. After Jonathan Merritt moved from the South to New York City, he discovered that the words he had always used to describe spiritual life didn’t res...
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334: Should we avoid talking politics over Thanksgiving? from 2018-11-21T02:14:54
Let's be honest: Spending time cooped up with family and friends on holidays like Thanksgiving can present some interesting conversational challenges for many of us. With that in mind, podcast prod...
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333: When I Spoke in Tongues, with Jessica Wilbanks from 2018-11-13T20:55:12
Jessica Wilbanks grew up in a fundamentalist Pentecostal church on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, and then, at 16, walked away from the church. Ever since, she's been haunted by the world...
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332: Can't pray... now what? from 2018-11-06T16:09:44
Sometimes, in the face of big problems in the world, doing everything we can reasonably do stills feels inadequate.
Consider the question this week, asked by Lexi in the Humanize Me Face...
331: Rethinking psychedelics, with Ashley Booth from 2018-11-02T21:45:41
Just say no! That's the mantra most of us have picked up from authority figures in our lives about drugs of all sorts, no matter their category.
But for our guest Ashley Booth and a grow...
330: What makes a good ritual? with Keith Page from 2018-10-22T21:35:33
Some of the things people abandon when they leave the church are rituals. But this week's Q&A features a voicemail by listener Morris Bird, who asks:
"The word ritual is used to describ...
329: Becoming an 'Evidist', with Jeff Haley&Dale McGowan from 2018-10-17T16:34:41
Don't worry; if you've never heard of 'evidism', you're not alone. This is a term coined by the guests in this episode, inventor Jeff Haley and author Dale McGowan, to describe people committed to ...
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328: Cultivating friendship - who to choose? from 2018-10-10T02:00:05
How does one decide who to pick to be friends with? Bart Campolo and John Wright look at this question as a sort of 'Part 2' to the last Q&A about cultivating good friendships:
"I really...
327: Alternatives to monogamy, with Dedeker Winston from 2018-09-25T21:41:05
No defaults. That's how Dedeker Winston, and her romantic partners Jase and Alex, see the foundation of their relationship structure: conscious, intentional choice around a lifestyle that works for...
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326: How do I cultivate loving relationships? from 2018-09-18T17:54:47
It's a line Bart Campolo uses a lot in this podcast and elsewhere, that the essence of life is cultivating loving relationships with other people. Today's question asks how to begin the process of ...
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325: AA Beyond Belief, with Joe C from 2018-09-12T00:04:23
It's often noted that Alcoholics Anonymous sounds like a religious movement, with its appeal to a 'Higher Power'. But Joe C. is the founder of a group called AA Beyond Belief, which he says exists ...
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324: Is it really okay to favor our own groups? from 2018-08-29T03:42:16
Bart Campolo thinks his kids are the best in the world. Well, not objectively speaking, right? Well, sort of! I mean, he really prefers his kids to your kids. But he hopes you do too. Is that right...
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323: Street Epistemology with Anthony Magnabosco from 2018-08-22T02:38:41
It's not a term most people use every day, but street epistemology is a thing. Anthony Magnabosco is one of its more prominent ambassadors, largely because he routinely captures his efforts on vide...
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322: How to be alone without freaking out from 2018-08-15T01:50
This week's question comes from a listener who finds it hard to spend time alone without having a really difficult time over it:
"Hey Bart. Okay, so when my girlfriend goes away on busin...
321: Secrets with Frank Warren from 2018-08-06T21:43:18
Curating peoples' secrets. It's a decidedly odd vocation, but Frank Warren has been doing it for a long time now through his ever-popular online art project, PostSecret.com. People anonymously send...
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320: Where do you get your morality? from 2018-08-01T22:03:22
In this episode Bart takes a question that, he joked upon hearing it, may easily have come from his Christian father:
"What is the basis for your morality? I am not asking what your mora...
319: The Art of Community with Charles Vogl from 2018-07-24T20:12:06
Charles Vogl helps leaders transform loneliness and separation into connection and belonging. His book, The Art of Community, is the book Bart Campolo says he always wished he had to recommend to p...
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318: How to do a platonic coffee date from 2018-07-19T18:08:34
Bart answers a question from a listener called Erin, who called our ‘Q Line’ to ask how to start to make new connections with people:
“How do I talk to people at the beginning of somethi...
317: Human-centered design with Kate and Ramsey from 2018-07-13T21:43:47
Human centered design (HCD), and its closely-related sibling, impact design, is about understanding challenges facing people or society, and working with others to design solutions to those challen...
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316: He told my 5 year-old son he's going to Hell! from 2018-06-26T03:50:58
On this week’s Q&A episode, Bart answers a question from a listener called Matt (who called our new ‘Q Line’ to leave his question for Bart directly). Matt’s question concerned his 5 year-old son, ...
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315: Sexy, but not an object with Glenda Jordan from 2018-06-21T21:11:24
Glenda Jordan makes money by being sexy, and dancing on stages in a form of adult entertainment. But that doesn't mean that she is merely a sex object, or that she gives up her humanity to do it. S...
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314: Why, Anthony Bourdain? from 2018-06-12T22:28:28
Suicide is on the minds of the many after some prominent ones in the past week or two. So today, we get to a question close to the hearts of the rest of us:
"How should we think about hi...
313: Former megachurch pastor Kent Dobson thinks differently from 2018-06-04T23:07:31
Like Bart Campolo, Kent Dobson had a prominent Christian father, and, like Bart, Kent finds himself a post-evangelical. But, although their journeys share some similarities, these two have not ende...
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312: Why do we still cry out in times of crisis? from 2018-05-25T16:48:46
Bart Campolo doesn’t believe in God anymore. But recently, while attempting to ride a new tandem bicycle for the first time, he fell, damaging his wrist, and immediately cried out: “Why? Why me!”
311: Women Who Explore with Lindsay MacNevin from 2018-05-18T16:00:41
Have you ever wanted to get into the outdoors more but been a little intimidated by other groups who do? Or do you find it hard finding groups where everybody is open to new friendships?
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310: How should we respond to the homeless? from 2018-05-07T22:10:35
When you're asked for money by a homeless person, or pass someone who appears to be homeless standing in a doorway or on a street corner, how should you respond?
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309: Are we really free to make our own choices? with Dan Barker from 2018-05-03T06:14:36
Well, are we? It’s a weird thought that the experience we all share – of making our own decisions, freely choosing our next move – is nothing more than an illusion. But the science leans that way, ...
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308: Science Mike (Mike McHargue) from 2018-04-03T20:06:16
In this episode Bart talks (a lot) with new pal Mike McHargue, aka Science Mike, whose two podcasts, Ask Science Mike and The Liturgists (with Michael Gungor) are HUGE among the still-kinda-Christi...
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307: A chat with my dad about the film, with Tony Campolo from 2018-03-21T06:34:04
It's here! For all of you who have been waiting patiently to see the documentary film Leaving My Father's Faith – capturing Bart's conversation with his dad Tony Campolo on the subject of his leavi...
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306: A Conversation With Rabbi Daniel Bogard from 2018-03-14T04:05:31
Daniel Bogard is a Jewish rabbi who’s passionate about building bridges across faith and cultural borders. He’s also a deep thinking, warm feeling, easy talking person with whom Bart has a terrifi...
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305: What Everyday People Can Do To Prevent Suicide with Jennifer Wright-Berryman from 2018-02-28T19:00:58
Jennifer Wright-Berryman is a suicidologist in the School of Social Work at the University of Cincinnati and is currently the lead researcher for a peer-to-peer, school-based program called Hope Sq...
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304: Ryan Bell – The New Humanist Chaplain at USC from 2018-02-16T04:13:50
Ryan Bell is a former pastor who became an atheist after spending a year without God as an experiment. He started and hosts the popular blog and podcast Life After God and is now both the National ...
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303: The Art Of An Apology from 2018-01-29T05:01:53
What does a real apology look like? What is the difference between remorse and regret? Between saying sorry and asking for forgiveness? In this episode, Bart talks about how to make an authentic ap...
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302: What Happens When An Evangelical Megachurch Becomes LGBTQ+ Inclusive with Ryan Meeks from 2018-01-16T04:56:35
Ryan Meeks is the founding pastor of EastLake Community Church outside of Seattle, Washington. A couple of years ago, EastLake became one of the first evangelical megachurches in America to support...
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301: Sammy Rangel's turnaround from violent extremism from 2018-01-04T22:34:41
Sammy Rangel is a transformed man: a former far-right extremist who had a powerful change in his life and is now the Executive Director of Life After Hate, a nonprofit that works with ‘radicalized'...
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Humanize Me 224: On men, masculinity, and their nature from 2017-12-05T15:37:56
How do men take the natural thoughts and urges they have and channel them appropriately? How do men grapple with their nature, while remaining safe and steadfast for the women in their lives?
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Humanize Me 223: Storytime from 2017-11-13T15:28:21
Bart tells a story from his days as a Christian evangelist after having been to a storytelling workshop. In this episode he talks about storytelling as one of the most powerful tools that we have, ...
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Humanize Me 222: Catching Up, The Cincinnati Edition from 2017-10-16T17:33:03
Bart checks in from Cincinnati, his old neighborhood made new again. Catch up on current happenings, future plans and more.
Bart can be contacted HERE. Join the ‘secret' Facebook group HERE. A...
Humanize Me 221: On Meditation, with Jennifer Howd from 2017-10-05T21:57:09
Jennifer Howd is an author, a developmental editor, and a UCLA-certified mindfulness facilitator. In this episode, Bart and Jennifer talk about her book, her work and how the principles she's devel...
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Humanize Me 220: Death Salon with Megan Rosenbloom from 2017-09-11T21:34:50
Megan begins by telling Bart about Death Salon, a knowledge and art project she directs and curates in an attempt to open up conversations and engagement with the subject of death. What is death de...
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Humanize Me 219: "Theology" after faith? with Kester Brewin from 2017-08-30T23:02:57
Kester Brewin is no longer a believer in a God, but holds some "theology" and "Christianity" even so. Bart and Kester have a transatlantic chat about life after belief and how they've both ended up...
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Humanize Me 218: True secular care with Jason Callahan from 2017-08-10T17:17:43
How can secular people care for each other when the chips are down? Jason Callahan is the chaplain for the Thomas Palliative Care Unit at VCU Massey Cancer Center in Virginia and instructor for the...
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Humanize Me 217: Mea culpa from 2017-07-24T15:26:04
Bart eats some humble pie with an apology he felt compelled to make after the realization that he hasn't always come across the way he intended.
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Humanize Me 216: Ask Bart Anything! from 2017-07-19T17:33:53
Listener questions abound on this episode, posed in real time by Humanize Me producer John Wright, featuring topics raised on the podcast's top-secret Facebook group (which is totally easy to find ...
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Humanize Me 215: The Pro-Truth Pledge, with Gleb Tsipursky from 2017-07-11T17:21:34
Gleb was involved in starting it. Bart signed up to it. Now, they're both committed to it. What is the Pro-Truth Pledge? How do we separate fact from fiction? And why did a group of scientists come...
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Humanize Me 214: Harry Potter as a sacred text, with Vanessa Zoltan from 2017-07-06T21:35:16
Bart chats with Vanessa Zoltan, a research assistant at Harvard Divinity School where she graduated who has been involved with the Humanist Hub at Harvard University and is well-known for her appro...
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Humanize Me 213: What makes a good father? with Roman Campolo from 2017-06-21T02:39:28
Bart's son Roman joins him for this chat, recorded on Father's Day, in which they contemplate the nature of 'fathering' and the attributes of an ideal father figure in someone's life. What are the ...
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Humanize Me 212: When clergy stop believing, with Drew Bekius from 2017-06-08T01:35:10
Like Bart, Drew Bekius is a former Christian minister who stopped believing and left the faith he held for so long. In this episode, Bart and Drew talk about their journey, the view on the other si...
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Humanize Me 211: The ‘Interfaithless' meet on the beach from 2017-06-02T18:22:07
Ex-Mormons. Ex-Scientologists. Ex-Jehovah Witnesses. Ex-Evangelicals. They were all there at sunset at Morris Bird's bi-annual gathering on the beach, cooking ribs and meeting each other. Some had ...
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Humanize Me 210: American sex with Lisa Wade from 2017-05-17T18:33:04
What kind of sex are Americans having? Will the Americans of the future have different sexual values than Americans of the past? What should our sexual values be, anyhow?
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Humanize Me 209: Humanizing the internet with Hank Green from 2017-04-28T21:08:39
Hank Green is a digital creator and content producer with popular YouTube channels such as Vlogbrothers and Crash Course. He reached out to Bart with some interesting thoughts about the digital age...
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Humanize Me 208: Wanna start a community? No manifesto from 2017-04-14T16:04:45
In the second podcast intended to help those who want to start their own local secular community, Bart warns against manifestos, vision statements, lists of values and other formalized statements o...
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Humanize Me 207: The future of society with Michael Dowd from 2017-04-07T22:06:53
Is society going to suffer a collapse from unsustainability worse than the Great Depression sometime in the not-too-distant future? Both Bart and his guest for this episode, self-described ‘apocalo...
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Humanize Me 206: In quest of of better conversations with Jared Seide from 2017-03-28T00:33:32
Bart talks with former Hollywood jack-of-all-trades turned super-cool master facilitator Jared Seide about Council, an age-old practice that involves bringing people together in a circle for candid...
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Humanize Me 205: Wanna start a community? Start talking! from 2017-03-18T20:17:10
In this episode, Bart talks about taking the first steps to starting your own secular community wherever you are. Consider it a practical guide to the first moves Bart recommends making, and how to...
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Humanize Me 204: Just another liberal do-gooder from 2017-03-01T13:56:12
In this episode, Bart shares an email from a listener who called him a "just another liberal do-gooder". Bart responded with kindness at the prompting of a student called Katie, and lessons were le...
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Humanize Me 203: An Update from 2017-02-22T20:50:41
A brief update from Bart on the latest going on, including: How he ended up losing all his emails The release of his new book co-authored with Tony Campolo Some new podcasts you can hear Bart on as...
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Humanize Me 202: Pray? For Trump? Are you kidding? from 2017-02-06T20:47:53
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Bart doesn't believe in a god. And he's no fan of the new U.S. President, Donald J Trump. So what could he possibly mean by urging people to pray for the presiden...
Humanize Me 201: Harmony and Community with Maggie Wheeler from 2017-01-09T21:45:53
Bart chats with his friend, the actress Maggie Wheeler, who is a director of the Golden Bridge Community Choir in Los Angeles, where people join together at all levels of singing ability and form a...
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Humanize Me 133: What In The World Are We Doing? from 2016-12-22T18:04:19
A special year-end edition of Humanize Me. Connect with others in the community at the Facebook Group HERE. Happy New Year!
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Humanize Me 132: Storytelling and belief from 2016-12-15T21:47:57
Secular stories: On this episode, Bart chats with his old friend Mark Yaconelli about his latest project, The Hearth Community, gatherings in which people explore, craft, and share stories from wha...
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Humanize Me 131: To Err is Human from 2016-12-06T17:14:20
What to do when you've made a mistake. After all, we're all human. Join the community of listeners to this podcast at the Facebook group HERE! Contact Bart HERE.
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Humanize Me 130: The internet is my religion from 2016-11-23T22:21:50
That's the name of Jim Gilliam's book, wherein he describes his journey out of fundamentalist faith, through serious illness and into internet-facilitated activism and a software company that helps...
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Humanize Me 129: A brick through the window from 2016-11-17T18:05:57
How does a secular humanist respond to the election by many of his fellow Americans of a brash, impulsive man who they know deep down doesn’t really care about them? Slowly. Thoughtfully. In this w...
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Humanize Me 128: Grace Without God from 2016-11-08T05:21:57
Like Bart, Katherine Ozment is trying to figure out how best to find meaning, purpose and belonging in a secular age. In this conversation Bart asks her about her journey, which is similar to so ma...
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Humanize Me 127: Moral Courage from 2016-10-31T20:44:35
Irshad Manji is an author, speaker and founder of the Moral Courage Project, espousing a ‘reformist' interpretation of Islam. She's featured in all kinds of media to speak out when others have want...
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Humanize Me 126: We hit a nerve from 2016-10-28T17:15:37
Last week's episode hit a nerve, or perhaps that should be many nerves. It's late at night in his apartment in Los Angeles and Bart takes a few minutes to touch upon the many responses to the episo...
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Humanize Me 125: Are we going too easy on Christianity? from 2016-10-18T01:56:55
If it were up to Bart’s wife Marty, the rest of the world probably still wouldn’t know about their deconversion and this podcast wouldn’t exist, so her joining him for this episode is a pretty big ...
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Humanize Me 124: How (Not) To Build a Secular Community from 2016-10-10T22:39:15
On this episode of Humanize Me, Bart's friend Peter Montoya talks about his attempts to start a new community of secular ‘freethinkers' from the ground up, how he began with the idea of a real, phy...
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Humanize Me 123: The definition of community from 2016-09-27T20:51:36
Bart talks about the attempt to create a new humanist community, one that listeners of this podcast can be part of. What's the difference between having a group of friends and having a community? L...
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Humanize Me 122: Meet the filmmaker from 2016-09-19T21:42:50
Can documentary filmmaking tell us anything useful about how to live our lives? Are people worth listening to for their own sake? And when is that film about Bart and his dad Tony going to be relea...
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Humanize Me 121: When the credit for your hard work goes to God instead from 2016-09-12T21:43:30
In this episode of Humanize Me, Bart reads a letter from a listener whose wife worked really hard over many months to get a coveted new job, only to have her mother attribute all her success to God...
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Humanize Me 120: What is a Reducetarian? from 2016-08-30T02:18:22
Bart chats with Brian Kateman of the Reducetarian Foundation about his mission to help reduce our meat consumption by encouraging people to simply eat less meat. This exciting new movement is compo...
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Humanize Me 119: How to initiate conversations from 2016-08-23T00:42:49
Here's a 20-minute episode from Bart Campolo on how to initiate conversations with people about life after religious belief, even when you live in the Bible Belt. During the episode Bart mentions t...
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Humanize Me 118: One former Christian minister to another from 2016-08-17T17:35:51
Once in a while, we run into people who we have so much in common with, it's an instant connection and leads to a long conversation. This is one such conversation, between two well-known progressiv...
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Humanize Me 117: How to live when you know life is finite from 2016-08-08T21:46:24
Your life is going to end someday. How do you live when you know life is finite? In this clip, Bart Campolo and Hemant Mehta talk about the moments of connection, awareness and sensation that make ...
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Humanize Me 116: Help! My husband is teaching my kids about Hell from 2016-08-02T00:02:08
A listener writes with a problem: she's an atheist but her husband is still a strongly committed Christian who is teaching their kids that, if they don't accept Christianity, they'll go to Hell. Wh...
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