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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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. What does she do?
Bart gives a response with advice for those in a similar situation: how to communicate, what to communicate about, how to teach respect for religious faith even if one doesn’t hold it.
Getting in touch with Bart HERE, or join the conversation on his Facebook page HERE.
Shane Claiborne is an activist, author and Christian thinker who has recently authored a book advocating the abolition of the death penalty called Executing Grace. On this episode of the Humanize Me podcast, Bart chats with Shane about capital punishment as an issue, and what they see similarly and differently as they come at it from opposite sides of the faith divide.
Included in their conversation:
- Shane’s roots in the bible belt
- Why he started to reject old interpretations of the bible
- Why the death penalty thrives in the South
- Is the death penalty connected to historic racism?
- The people of faith and people of reason coming together to oppose capital punishment
- What about the victims’ families?
- Is it better to acknowledge that sometimes you can’t ‘fix’ tragedies?
- On the work that’s happening now against the death penalty
- What does Shane believe about the execution of Jesus Christ?
- Bart’s curiosity about how Shane reconciles his beliefs
- Shane sees meaning in the story of a contemporary execution and Bart responds
Buy a copy of Shane’s book HERE. Read a profile of him HERE. Get in touch with Bart with your thoughts on this episode HERE.
What can we learn from encounters with strangers on the street? On this week’s episode of Humanize Me, Roman Campolo stops in to talk about the experience of canvassing for Greenpeace on the streets of Los Angeles.
Included in this one:
- The code of the streets and common acknowledgement between homeless people and street canvassers
- Why climate change matters as an issue, and why we have a small period of time to make progress
- It’s not the specific organization that matters, it’s movements that mobilize big groups of people
- How faith in the idea of government, whether we like it or not, plays a role in our power to ‘do something’
- What are the ultimate values of a community, or of a nation?
- The best ‘stop lines’ for people on the street and how street work can cure social anxiety
- How to engage with people authentically
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Someone has an unusual request for Bart that shines a light on how important it is, when you’re really committed to showing love and support for others, to change your mind sometimes. In this short episode of Humanize Me, Bart tells the story of what happened.
How would you have handled this situation? Can we learn anything from this? Let Bart know by getting in touch HERE, or join the conversation on his Facebook page HERE.
What can the art of improvisation teach us about how to life a good life? Holly Laurent met Bart years ago as a college student when both of them were Christians, and now they find each other both living in Los Angeles after 20 years. Holly is an actor, a writer, a teacher and an improviser. She was a member of the Second City mainstage in Chicago, has many TV and film credits and can currently be seen at iO West and elsewhere.
In this episode, Bart and Holly talk about how to use improv to become more self-aware, to gain empathy and to explore the psychological and emotional thresholds we all have. Holly talks about playing by the rules and how to move beyond rule-based living. She also tells the story of auditioning for Saturday Night Live a few years ago, and what she learned from the experience.
Holly’s website can be found HERE. The website of the iO West Theater is HERE.
Following Sunday’s news of one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Bart Campolo switches on the mic just long enough to reflect on it, on why he attended the Pride parade in Los Angeles hours after hearing the news, and why people have the urge to pray in response to tragedy.
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