Humanize Me

Humanize Me 214: Harry Potter as a sacred text, with Vanessa Zoltan

Bart chats with Vanessa Zoltan, a research assistant at Harvard Divinity School where she graduated who has been involved with the Humanist Hub at Harvard University and is well-known for her approach to reading books like Harry Potter as a sacred text. Among the topics covered in this episode: * Being an atheist for solidarity * The power of prayer? * Lectio Divina and Harry Potter * On shared languages and arts * How something like that gets started Vanessa’s project can be found at HarryPotterSacredText.com. Reach Bart at bartcampolo.org/contact. There’s also a private Facebook group for members of this community HERE.

Humanize Me 213: What makes a good father? with Roman Campolo

Humanize Me 213: What makes a good father? with Roman Campolo

Humanize Me 212: When clergy stop believing, with Drew Bekius

Like Bart, Drew Bekius is a former Christian minister who stopped believing and left the faith he held for so long. In this episode, Bart and Drew talk about their journey, the view on the other side of faith, the plight of unbelieving clergy, compassion for those in that position and what they’re both doing now that they’re no longer evangelical pastors. Drew’s website can be found at drewbekius.com. Bart can be reached at bartcampolo.org/contact.

Ex-Mormons. Ex-Scientologists. Ex-Jehovah Witnesses. Ex-Evangelicals. They were all there at sunset at Morris Bird’s bi-annual gathering on the beach, cooking ribs and meeting each other. Some had travelled for hours to get there, desperate for community with those like them. On this episode, Bart chats with Morris about such communities for the benefit of any of you who may be interested in doing something like this yourselves. Email Morris at morrisbird@gmail.com if you’d like to get in touch. Email Bart at bartcampolo.org/contact.

Humanize Me 211: The ‘Interfaithless’ meet on the beach

What kind of sex are Americans having? Will the Americans of the future have different sexual values than Americans of the past? What should our sexual values be, anyhow? Lisa Wade is a world expert – maybe the world expert – on hookup culture among U.S. college students. Her book, American Hookup, details her research into a culture that a growing number of people worry about, a topic which Bart and Lisa discuss candidly in this episode of Bart’s podcast. Lisa’s website can be found at lisa-wade.com. The interview she did with Hidden Brain is

Humanize Me 210: American sex with Lisa Wade

Humanize Me 209: Humanizing the internet with Hank Green

Humanize Me 209: Humanizing the internet with Hank Green

In the second podcast intended to help those who want to start their own local secular community, Bart warns against manifestos, vision statements, lists of values and other formalized statements of belief for emerging secular groups. At the end, we hear a story from Rick Johnston, whose website can be found at rickjohnston.info. This episode is brought to you by the Humanize Me private Facebook group.

Humanize Me 208: Wanna start a community? No manifesto

Is society going to suffer a collapse from unsustainability worse than the Great Depression sometime in the not-too-distant future? Both Bart and his guest for this episode, self-described ‘apocaloptimist’ Michael Dowd, think so. Michael is an author and speaker who spends a lot of time thinking about the future, and although he’s a Reverend from the Christian tradition, his website says, “Reality is my God. Evidence is my scripture. Big History is my creation story. Ecology is my theology. Integrity is my salvation. Ensuring a healthy future is my mission.” So, what’s the best way to think about the future of humanity? Listen to the episode for a wide-ranging chat on that. Michael’s website is at michaeldowd.org.