Tyler VanderWeele
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Oct 15, 2026
John ColemanGUEST
One of the things I focus on quite a lot is that money is a means, not an end to a flourishing life, which I mentioned before.
John ColemanGUEST
Um, I work a lot with the Harvard Human Flourishing program, which is led by a guy named Tyler VanderWeele, who's also a Christian.
John ColemanGUEST
I profile him in the book.
John ColemanGUEST
And they talk about those five intrinsic areas of flourishing, which are happiness, life satisfaction, character and virtue, meaning and purpose, mental and physical health, and deep relationships.
A.R.HOST
The research on health and well-being is equally compelling.
A.R.HOST
Tyler VanderWeele at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health has been running some of the most rigorous longitudinal studies in this space for years.
A.R.HOST
His findings are consistent.
A.R.HOST
People who attend religious services regularly report higher levels of life satisfaction, lower rates of depression, lower rates of substance abuse, lower rates of suicide, and even longer lifespans.
Zach ClintonGUEST
2,500 clinicians and counselors and pastors, really was leaders in the mental health, medical, and ministry spaces and places coming together to worship under one name, but also to be further equipped and developed.
Zach ClintonGUEST
So to have someone like you, one of the most renowned neurosurgeons in the world, alongside of neuroscientists like Dr. Caroline Leaf and Dr. Daniel Amen, as well as the human flourishing experts, Dr. Tyler VanderWeele, Dr. Harold Koenig, Dr. Byron Johnson, what an event it was.
Zach ClintonGUEST
So to have you be a part of that lineup, I mean, we were dumbfounded that you would say yes.
Lee WarrenHOST
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Shannon WhitneyHOST
Sometimes clinical work has neglected the moral dimension.
Shannon WhitneyHOST
Many world religions point to the moral dimension and we cannot bring about full healing without addressing the moral dimension, said Tyler VanderWeele, the director of the Human Flourishing Project at Harvard University during a 2024 conference.
Shannon WhitneyHOST
Religions provide a strong social identity for people and become the lens through which people understand the world and religious leaders and institutions uniquely wield a particular kind of spiritual and moral authority.
Shannon WhitneyHOST
VanderWeele and other psychologists are defining and measuring the newer concept of moral injury.
Renae WilkinsonGUEST
So how are relationships within the community, and how much does one support, um, their, their leadership and believe that their, the leadership in their community is, um, something that they, uh, believe is good for their community? And this can be applied to families and schools and workplaces, other contexts.
Renae WilkinsonGUEST
And the community wellbeing measure, the director of our program, Tyler VanderWeele, proposed a, a 24-item community flourishing measure.
Renae WilkinsonGUEST
We are gonna be assessing this within the, the community or the context of the United States nationally starting this fall with a State of the Nation Flourishing Report.
Renae WilkinsonGUEST
We're gonna be fielding this across the United States annually so that we can, you know, measure, um, where, where we need to improve to see how our, our community, our context, um, within the United States is doing.
Tyler VanderWeeleGUEST
It doesn't work.
Susan SpencerCORRESPONDENT
Harvard epidemiology professor Tyler VanderWeele says whether held for a day or a decade, grudges are just bad for us.
Tyler VanderWeeleGUEST
Studies indicate greater levels of cardiovascular trouble, higher levels of depression, higher levels of anxiety.
Susan SpencerCORRESPONDENT
Yet we live in an age where brazen airing of a grudge, once frowned upon, now seems almost expected.
Mike DayHOST
It's not simply an historical exercise either, but something modern health and psychological findings also confirm.
Mike DayHOST
Harvard School of Public Health Professor Tyler VanderWeele wrote an op-ed entitled, entitled Could Religion Be The New Miracle Drug? Not the numerical drug, a miracle drug.
Mike DayHOST
He begins his piece by saying this, "If one could conceive of a single elixir to improve the physical and mental health of millions of people at no personal cost, what value would our society place on it? Research suggests that those who regularly attend services like this are more optimistic, have lower rates of depression, are less likely to commit suicide, have a greater purpose in life, are less likely to divorce, and are more self-controlled." That's not to say that always happens in every case, but that's what it shows us.
Mike DayHOST
But it's not just this.
speaker_1HOST
Cornfield shifted the burden of proof.
speaker_0HOST
And the text details how this historical concept was recently generalized by VanderWeele and the author, Peng Ding, into a modern metric called the E-value.
speaker_1HOST
The E-value is a formal quantification of Cornfield's logic.
speaker_1HOST
It calculates the minimum strength of association that an unmeasured confounder would need to have with both the treatment and the outcome to fully explain away your observed causal effect.