Author: Bart
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414: Where was Bart last week? Grief and the Platinum Rule
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 this week’s Q&A episode. In response, Bart lets us in on a week of private grief, and some of…
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413: Help! My daughter is interested in a boy!
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 year-old girl, who, it is discovered, is interested in a boy at school. The girl’s father is panicking and concerned while the mother…
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412: Don’t panic about porn! with Dr. Marty Klein
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 for the narrative they’re telling themselves, the importance of novelty in human sexuality, the ‘contracts’ people have in relationships, how people respond to the…
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411: Why don’t you become a Unitarian Universalist?
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 that he himself has found what he’s looking for at a UU church. Bart responds to Ben’s question, saying that he loves the UU movement but…
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410: Insights of an openly atheist minister, with Gretta Vosper
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 her congregation. In this conversation, Bart Campolo talks with Gretta about the story of the last few years, why she stays in…
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409: Climate change – a redo!
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 the wake of that episode, Bart heard from many other listeners who didn’t think we nailed it. So, this is our attempt at…
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408: Is the paranormal proof of transcendent consciousness? with Mark Gober
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 else comes from physical nature. So you may consider it odd that Bart would have Mark Gober on his podcast, whose book argues that…
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407: How to cope with coming apocalypse
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: “Hey Bart, I’m Josie, I just turned 15 and I am a big fan of your podcast. So I have this really great…
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406: Is pro-semitism a thing? with the hosts of Unorthodox
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 actively pro-semitic, and to support Jews more. To answer this, Bart reached out to the hosts…
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405: Bart has a new community idea
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 more fertile soil. Two Sundays ago, Bart Campolo and a team of like-minded people held their first content-driven…