Episodios

  • Katy Faust on Putting Children First

    Katy Faust on Putting Children First
    Apr 7 2025
    Childhood in America today is often troubled. Children are experiencing mental health crises, suicidal ideation, educational underperformance, social discord, sexualization at young ages, and unprecedented social challenges. What to do? Wesley’s guest on this episode of Humanize, Katy Faust, has invested years of her life to solving the crisis of contemporary childhood. Faust believes the time has come to put Read More ›
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    1 h y 10 m
  • Bobby Schindler on the 20th Anniversary of the Death of Terri Schiavo

    Bobby Schindler on the 20th Anniversary of the Death of Terri Schiavo
    Mar 17 2025
    For those who may not remember, Terri Schiavo was a profoundly cognitively disabled woman who became the subject of a legal and cultural battle that made international headlines. The case became a bitter and protracted conflict between Michael Schiavo, Terri’s husband who wanted to pull her feeding tube, and the Schindler family that fought to save their child and sister’s Read More ›
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    1 h y 8 m
  • David V. Hicks on the Myths We Live By

    David V. Hicks on the Myths We Live By
    Mar 3 2025
    We live in an increasingly secular age in which religious believers — particularly Christians — are accused of believing in myths, meaning false stories. But are religious myths really false? Moreover, do modernists have their own myths by which they live? And why do humans create myths and what societal purposes do they serve, anyway? The classical educator and Orthodox Read More ›
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    1 h y 11 m
  • Ira Byock, M.D., on the Crisis in Hospice Care

    Ira Byock, M.D., on the Crisis in Hospice Care
    Feb 10 2025
    The creation of the modern hospice movement was a major advance in the care for people with terminal illnesses. Alas, in recent years, hospice has entered something of a crisis, with too many facilities offering inadequate care and some patients receiving short shrift of services to which they are entitled. To get to the bottom of the problem, Wesley invited Read More ›
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    56 m
  • Former CDC Director Robert R. Redfield on Viruses, Vaccines, the COVID Epidemic, and Distrust in Public Health

    Former CDC Director Robert R. Redfield on Viruses, Vaccines, the COVID Epidemic, and Distrust in Public Health
    Jan 27 2025
    The public health sector has been roiled by controversy and political turmoil in the last few years, what with the COVID pandemic, the fight over vaccine mandates, and questions about politicization of the sector. Beyond that, viruses make the news like never before. So, Wesley turned to an expert in both fields to learn more about virology, the government’s response Read More ›
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    1 h y 15 m
  • Is There a Difference Between “Mind” and “Brain”?

    Is There a Difference Between “Mind” and “Brain”?
    Jan 13 2025
    What is the “mind”? Is it a pure product of raw brain activity? Or, is it something “other” — that can be experienced, but not measured, observed but not fully defined? Does free will exist? Are our brains just so many meat computers? A new anthology, Minding the Brain, explores these and related issues in depth — both from philosophical Read More ›
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    1 h y 4 m
  • Dr. Kristin M. Collier on the Importance of Recognizing the Patient as a “Person”

    Dr. Kristin M. Collier on the Importance of Recognizing the Patient as a “Person”
    Dec 16 2024
    Medicine and healthcare have become one of the most contentious sectors of modern society. Doctors have greater scientific knowledge with which to help patients than at any time in history. But at the same time, the field seems to be heading in a more crassly technocratic direction, in which the human being seeking care may become lost in the attempt Read More ›
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    58 m
  • Nina Shea on the Persecution of the Catholic Church in China

    Nina Shea on the Persecution of the Catholic Church in China
    Dec 2 2024
    Religious persecution continues to afflict the world. Anti-Semitism abounds. Certain Islamic countries suppress minority faiths while Muslims face persecution in countries like India. Non-Orthodox Christians are persecuted in Russia, while some American Christians claim that they are discriminated against because of living out their faith precepts. In this episode of Humanize, Wesley focuses on the suppression of the Catholic Church Read More ›
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    1 h y 5 m
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