Humanize Me

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124: How (not) to build a secular community Oct 11, 2016

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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.

123: The definition of community Sep 27, 2016

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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?

122: Meet the filmmaker, with John Wright Sep 20, 2016

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Can documentary filmmaking tell us anything useful about how to live our lives? Are people worth listening to for their own sake? These questions and others came up during Bart’s chat with his friend John Wright, the Northern Irish filmmaker working on the documentary about Bart’s transition out of Christian faith, and his father’s response to it as a well-known Christian evangelist.

121: When the credit for your hard work goes to God instead Sep 12, 2016

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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 instead. Bart responds.

120: What is a Reducetarian? Aug 30, 2016

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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 new movement is composed of individuals who have committed to eating less red meat, poultry, and seafood, whatever the degree or the motivation.

119: How to initiate conversations Aug 23, 2016

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How to initiate conversations with people about life after religious belief, even when you live in the Bible Belt.

118: One former Christian minister to another Aug 18, 2016

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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 progressive Christian ministers who both stopped believing in God in recent years and left Christianity in public ways. Although Bart Campolo and Jim Mulholland share many aspects of their stories with each other, some of the ways they have journeyed since leaving faith are different.

117: How to live when you know life is finite Aug 09, 2016

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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 life worth living to its fullest.

116: Help! My husband is teaching my kids about Hell Aug 02, 2016

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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?

115: Shane Claiborne Jul 30, 2016

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Shane Claiborne is a progressive Christian leader and author who is passionate about social justice, and an old friend of Bart's.

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