Here's Bart's interview with a renowned neuroscientist who has a fascinating personal journey and ended up caring deeply about things like the power of compassion and altruism. James Doty is the author of Into The Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart. On this episode [...]
What do you do when you're in a Christian marriage, you're deep in church life, and secretly you don't believe in God? Is it worth blowing up your whole life to try to be authentic with people about your lack of belief? Bart has some experience with a not-entirely-unsimilar situation to this listener, who wrote [...]
This week's episode of Humanize Me comes late after Bart was swept away over Mother's Day with a visiting mom-in-law. The episode prompts a brief lesson in forgiveness when Bart realizes the inherent value of asking for, and offering, forgiveness for wrongs. (Bonus tip: it helps us bond as humans, and derives directly from our [...]
It sounds like an oxymoron, right? But Ann Neumann's amazing book attempts to address the question of what a 'good' death may look like, and it stems right from her own experiences. It's an American story, and a rich one, and it's totally relevant to the mission Bart Campolo has to cultivate the best life [...]
Instead of interviewing guests, talking about secular goodness or counseling people through decision-making, this short episode of the Humanize Me podcast finds Bart sitting in a rental car in Cincinnati early this morning - April 11th, 2016 - contemplating his own finitude, and feeling the pain of being a mere visitor in a community that [...]
Hemant Mehta is also known as the Friendly Atheist, a blogger, speaker, activist and fellow podcaster who believes in civil discourse and advocates atheism in a positive way. In this, Bart finds a kindred spirit of sorts, and a shared mission. Here's what you'll hear in this episode: Our relationship to technology and whether we [...]
Two secular community leaders chat about what they do during an average day in this fourth episode of the Humanize Me podcast. Ryan Bell and Bart Campolo exchange stories about conversations with people who have found that they don't believe in God but still want to connect with the world and others in a meaningful way. It's [...]
So you can no longer believe in God, no matter how hard you try, and you're attempting to figure out how to - or even if you should - tell your parents. What do you do when some of your basic beliefs have shifted? How do you assure your loved ones that you continue to [...]
Scott Wiltermuth used to work in the airline industry as a strategy consultant, which led him to start researching cool stuff like how socio-environmental factors affect people’s reactions to unethical behavior and their likelihood of behaving unethically themselves, and how interpersonal dynamics like synchrony and dominance affect our ability to cooperate and build community. We [...]
So I’d envisioned this big buildup to dropping the first episode of my new podcast, Humanize Me!, when I heard a Hillary Clinton soundbite about underpromising and overdelivering, and thought to myself, 'Self, that’s the way to go here.' Anyway, here's my intro podcast with some more info about the direction I want to go [...]