A lot of people feel guilty about something - diet, money, relationships or something else. Our host Anne Strainchamps and writer Devorah Baum definitely do. So we asked them to sit down to talk about how we wound up about in a giant cultural guilt trip.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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It creeps into everything: guilt that we're not good enough, fit enough, smart enough. As we peruse Instagram, all we see is the perfection of others reflecting our own failures back at us. Why do we spend so much time feeling guilty? Should we?
When evangelical Christians say they talk to God, what do they mean? Anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann wanted to find out.
Margery Kempe was one of the world's most famous Christian mystics — a medieval pilgrim with a penchant for uncontrollable sobbing.
Getting a good night's sleep is hard for a lot of people, but imagine trying to drift off when you have terrifying hallucinations.
Andrew Newberg is a pioneer in neurotheology. He says brain scans can show the neural signature of spiritual experience.
Ancient humans lived as hunter-gatherers, with animistic religions. So why did people start to believe in Big Gods? University of British Columbia psychologist Ara Norenzayan has a theory.
African chimps store caches of big rocks to throw at certain trees. And some scientists wonder, are those trees sacred to them?
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