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In times of fast-paced change and challenge, how do we hold onto our humanity? Each week, the Humankind on Public Radio podcast presents stories of doers and dreamers who strive to make our planet a more humane and livable place. From our award-winning public radio series, the podcast features David Freudberg’s moving documentaries and dialogues. Hear new and evergreen episodes.

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Medicine’s River of Meaning
byDavid Freudberg

Physician, philosopher and best-selling author Rachel Remen describes her remarkable course, “The Healer’s Art,” taught at medical schools throughout the United States.

Medicine’s River of Meaning
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Medicine’s River of Meaning
Medicine’s River of Meaning
Physician, philosopher and best-selling author Rachel Remen describes her remarkable course, “The Healer’s Art,” taught at medical schools throughout the United States. [...]
August 11, 2022
David Freudberg
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Facing the Unthinkable
Facing the Unthinkable
Ira Helfand, a former emergency room physician, describes the psychology of denying that nuclear arms pose an existential threat, and he maintains that even governments [...]
August 4, 2022
David Freudberg
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Welcoming the Stranger
Welcoming the Stranger
We visit a shelter at Seattle’s Mission for a rich exchange with a formerly homeless man who feels the spiritual care he received from mental [...]
August 1, 2022
David Freudberg
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Special Children with Albert T. Murphy
Special Children with Albert T. Murphy
Albert T. Murphy comments compassionately on lessons gained from his life’s work with special needs children and helping their parents cope. [...]
July 28, 2022
David Freudberg
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Seeds of Peace
Seeds of Peace
Take a trip to a pristine spot in Maine for an afternoon spent with Palestinian and Israeli youth as they come together to play, connect, [...]
July 21, 2022
David Freudberg
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Caring for People at the End of Life
Caring for People at the End of Life
At the end of life, when most people need medical care and emotional comfort from family and friends, some turn also to chaplains for spiritual [...]
July 18, 2022
David Freudberg
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Healing the Trauma of War, Pt1
Healing the Trauma of War, Pt1
After war, our veterans face a new battle: emotional and spiritual conflict that is normal to human beings who’ve experienced intense brutality. In this documentary, [...]
June 23, 2022
David Freudberg
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Books to Prisoners
Books to Prisoners
The Prisoners Literature Project, an all-volunteer service based in Berkeley, California, packages and ships books to people who are incarcerated, as a humanitarian gesture and [...]
June 9, 2022
David Freudberg
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Uncommon Ground, Pt1
Uncommon Ground, Pt1
In the wake of shocking violence at abortion clinics, two apparent enemies — women representing pro-choice and pro-life factions in the Boston area, where shootings [...]
May 30, 2022
David Freudberg
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After-Effects of War with Christal Presley
After-Effects of War with Christal Presley
Christal Presley, an English teacher in Virginia who experienced “secondary trauma” in response to the extreme behavior of her father, a Vietnam-era veteran with PTSD, [...]
December 16, 2021
David Freudberg
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Rubin Carter’s Hurricane, Pt 2
Rubin Carter’s Hurricane, Pt 2
Following incarceration in New Jersey for a multiple homicide he did not commit, Rubin Carter managed to emerge from prison in 1985 with an astounding [...]
December 9, 2021
David Freudberg
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Rubin Carter’s Hurricane, Pt 1
Rubin Carter’s Hurricane, Pt 1
As dramatized in a Bob Dylan song and ‘The Hurricane’ starring Denzel Washington, ex-prize fighter Rubin Carter tells how he was wrongly convicted of a [...]
December 2, 2021
David Freudberg
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Steps to Recovery, Pt 2
Steps to Recovery, Pt 2
Today over two million people partake of the storytelling, the good humor, the words of wisdom and the gallons and gallons of free coffee made [...]
November 25, 2021
David Freudberg
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Steps to Recovery, Pt 1
Steps to Recovery, Pt 1
Alcoholics Anonymous marks its beginning when one hopelessly addicted drunk realized that connecting with a fellow-sufferer would create a safe zone in which both could [...]
November 18, 2021
David Freudberg
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The Way of Tao, Pt 2
The Way of Tao, Pt 2
“At the end of the day,” says Jonathan Star about his English translation of Tao te Ching from the original Chinese, “it’s not about attaining [...]
November 11, 2021
David Freudberg
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The Way of Tao, Pt 1
The Way of Tao, Pt 1
Jonathan Star took twelve years to master the nuances of ancient Chinese in his quest to produce a remarkably lucid and evocative English translation of [...]
November 4, 2021
David Freudberg
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The Practice of Forgiveness, Pt 2
The Practice of Forgiveness, Pt 2
When we nurse grudges, the person clinging to a resentment often pays a high price in anxiety, hostility, perhaps depression. What follows from that for [...]
October 28, 2021
David Freudberg
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The Practice of Forgiveness, Pt 1
The Practice of Forgiveness, Pt 1
Author and prison therapist Robin Casarjian reframes the act of forgiveness not to condone hurtful behavior, but as a shift in perception that allows us [...]
October 21, 2021
David Freudberg
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