A weekly podcast about building great relationships, cultivating wonder, and making things better for other people. Hosted by veteran community-builder Bart Campolo, Humanize Me features friendly, thoughtful conversations with a wide array of scientists, activists, artists and oddballs.
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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 many stories we’ve been hearing recently from the audience of Humanize Me.
Check out Katherine’s website at katherineozment.com and grab a copy of her book, Grace Without God. Got some feedback about this episode? Reach Bart at bartcampolo.org/contact or join the Facebook Group HERE.
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 wanted to shut her up, and chats with Bart here about a wide range of relevant and interesting subjects. Her books, The Trouble With Islam Today and Allah, Liberty and Love, have been translated into many languages and read around the world.
Irshad’s website can be found at irshadmanji.com. Discuss this episode at a burgeoning new Facebook Group called, appropriately enough, Humanize Me. Contact Bart atbartcampolo.org/contact.
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 episode with his wife Marty about whether he’s being ‘too nice’ about Christianity.
For those asking about Robert Ingersoll, Ingersoll the Magnificent by Joseph Lewis can be found HERE for free. Bart also recommends Susan Jacoby’s biography The Great Agnostic HERE.
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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 deal.
Rather than focusing on their marriage per se, however, Bart and Marty open up to each other about an immediate and excruciating question that every former believer must face sooner or later: How long do we hold our tongues once we realize that what we used to believe – and that many of our loved ones still do – is not just untrue, but also genuinely harmful?
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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, physical intentional community and didn’t get there, and ended up with a large online community to show for it instead. Bart asks Peter about his first attempts at secular community building, what he thinks didn’t work and why, and what the two of them believe to be the factors that set apart real communities from online ones, or from mere ‘events’ or ‘meetings’.
Peter is a marketing expert with a professional website HERE. His online community can be found at NewFreethinkers.org and its Facebook page is HERE. Get in touch with Bart HERE!
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? Listen to this episode to find out.
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