Staying Human

Staying Human

Staying Human is a podcast special about faith — in each other, and in our common humanity — amid distance, anxiety, grief, and injustice during the global COVID-19 pandemic. With cases spiking, a long winter ahead, and at the climax of the most consequential election season in modern history … you might just be feeling stressed right now. Let us help.

Episodes

  1. 11/03/2020

    Staying Human Bonus: Election Meditation

    Lama Rod Owens leads Greg through a meditation for coping with election and pandemic stress... With everything going on in the world, we hope this helps you reconnect with your place in it.

  2. 10/28/2020

    Staying Human

    What is a good life in the time of COVID-19? With no definitive return to “normal” in sight, where do we find hope? What do we do with our fear, and how do we handle extended isolation? Greg M. Epstein, the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard and MIT, a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning convener of ethical communities, embarks on a journey of reckoning with these questions and more, in an attempt to reclaim and reinforce what the pandemic has stolen from so many of us this year: our humanity. Supported by a Grant from MIT’s MindHandHeart, this hour-long special starts at the heart of this crisis, as Greg talks with Helen Ouyang, a New York City E.R. doctor whose April New York Times Magazine cover story documented her struggle to maintain her own humanity while healing others. Jessi Gold, a leading campus psychiatrist, helps us manage the anxiety and depression levels we’re all neck deep in right now. And Lama Rod Owens, an inspiring Black, Queer Tantric Buddhist Lama, helps us manage our lingering, heartbroken rage (about ... *gestures broadly at everything*), even as he tends his own.

  • 2 Episodes

Ratings & Reviews

4.5
out of 5
8 Ratings

About

Staying Human is a podcast special about faith — in each other, and in our common humanity — amid distance, anxiety, grief, and injustice during the global COVID-19 pandemic. With cases spiking, a long winter ahead, and at the climax of the most consequential election season in modern history … you might just be feeling stressed right now. Let us help.

Information

  • Creator
    Staying Human
  • Years Active
    2020
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Staying Human
  • Show Website
    Staying Human

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