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#10 Liberty and Trauma For All with Dr. Lucas Wilson

#10 Liberty and Trauma For All with Dr. Lucas Wilson

Episode 10 · · 01:08:29

A man chose Liberty University over the University of Toronto because it had a conversion therapy program. That man is now a postdoctoral fellow editing anthologies about surviving i...

#9 What More is There Than Death & Ice Cream? with D.S. Moss

#9 What More is There Than Death & Ice Cream? with D.S. Moss

Episode 9 · · 53:01

Shay & Devin decide to talk about the big D... Death. Together they cover grief that doesn't end, rituals humanists have yet to invent, what it means to chaplain someone on death row...

#8 Kinky Coffee on a Denver Gondola with Alyssa Grenfell

#8 Kinky Coffee on a Denver Gondola with Alyssa Grenfell

Episode 8 · · 53:56

Alyssa Grenfell grew up knowing three things: coffee was basically heroin, God had a very specific plan for her life, and that plan included Italy. Denver... same difference.In this ...

#7 Mustard and the Condiments of Righteousness with Shawn Towers

#7 Mustard and the Condiments of Righteousness with Shawn Towers

Episode 7 · · 52:18

For years, Shawn Towers ate the mustard. Didn't ask them to take it back, didn't make a fuss, just swallowed it because that's what a good Christian man did. Turns out that burger wa...

#6 Saint Australia and the Sober Toe with Dr. Joe Gerstein

#6 Saint Australia and the Sober Toe with Dr. Joe Gerstein

Episode 6 · · 56:13

A Jesuit priest called Joe Gerstein lazy in 1989 and accidentally launched a global sobriety movement in 38 countries and 16 languages. Joe is a retired Harvard Medical School profes...

#5 Humanism Rained on My "Kirk is Gone" Parade with Elisa Rosoff

#5 Humanism Rained on My "Kirk is Gone" Parade with Elisa Rosoff

Episode 5 · · 52:30

When Charlie Kirk died, Shay had feelings about her feelings. Specifically, the feeling that humanism was standing in the driveway blocking the parade float.That spiral led us straig...

#4 Allah Flunked Out of Beauty School with Sammy of Haram Doodles

#4 Allah Flunked Out of Beauty School with Sammy of Haram Doodles

Episode 4 · · 01:01:17

Hear us out... what if Allah was an aspiring hairdresser who flunked out of beauty school, and rather than dealing with that loss in therapy like a normal god, he spent the next 1,40...

#3 God Can't Do Math in the Cereal Aisle with Robert Affinis

#3 God Can't Do Math in the Cereal Aisle with Robert Affinis

Episode 3 · · 31:46

After a stranger suggests that maybe two plus two equals five in another universe, Robert Affinis decides he is officially done debating God’s existence with anyone. Ever.From tellin...

#2 Batman’s Not Real and Other Brutal Truths with Greg Epstein

#2 Batman’s Not Real and Other Brutal Truths with Greg Epstein

Episode 2 · · 01:02:05

What if the secret origin story of humanism is just... ancient people getting tired of handing over their goats? In this episode, Greg Epstein — Harvard and MIT's Humanist Chaplain a...

#1 My Mom's Radical Act of Cake

#1 My Mom's Radical Act of Cake

Episode 1 · · 13:22

In this debut episode of How to Humanist, Shay Leonia introduces herself as the mildly terrified new podcast host representing a nearly century-old institution, the American Humanist...