Podcasts by On Being with Krista Tippett
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A Listening Ritual for this Fall: Poetry Unbound from 2023-12-13T14:35:41.078390
Three years ago, Krista texted Pádraig Ó Tuama with a simple question: what if he were to start a poetry podcast that listened as much as it shared? Not long after, Poetry Unbound was bor...
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Foundations 4: Calling and Wholeness from 2023-12-13T14:35:41.069288
In the modern western world, vocation was equated with work. But each of us has callings, not merely to be professionals, but to be friends, neighbors, colleagues, family, citizens, lovers of th...
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Dacher Keltner — The Thrilling New Science of Awe from 2023-12-13T14:35:41.061743
One of the most fascinating developments of our time is that human qualities we have understood in terms of virtue — experiences we've called spiritual — are now being taken seriously by science...
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Amanda Ripley — Stepping out of"the zombie dance"we're in, and into"good conflict"that is, in fact, life-giving from 2023-12-13T14:35:41.058278
Amanda Ripley began her life as a journalist covering crime, disaster, and terrorism. Then in 2018, she published a brilliant essay called “Complicating the Narratives,” which she opened by conf...
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[Unedited] James Bridle with Krista Tippett from 2023-12-13T14:35:40.968934
You might want to take a walk with this one. It is big and full of brain food and an enlivening opening of imagination to possibilities that are emergent now: the notion of the “broad commonweal...
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Isabel Wilkerson —"We all know in our bones that things are harder than they have to be." from 2023-12-13T14:35:40.951794
In this rich, expansive, and warm conversation between friends, Krista draws out the heart for humanity behind Isabel Wilkerson's eye on histories we are only now communally learning to tell — h...
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[Unedited] Barbara Brown Taylor with Krista Tippett from 2023-12-13T14:35:40.891676
"I like it much better than ‘religious’ or ‘spiritual’ — to be a seeker after the sacred or the holy, which ends up for me being the really real."
– Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor
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Reid Hoffman — AI, and What It Means to Be (More) Human from 2023-12-13T14:35:40.751747
In this season of On Being and those to come, we are going to train the core human questions on the emerging “generative AI.” Beyond the hype and the doom, what is this new technology cal...
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[Extended] Clint Smith with Krista Tippett from 2023-12-13T14:35:40.687328
This phrase recurs throughout Clint Smith's writing: "in the marrow of our bones." It is an example of how words can hold encrypted wisdom — in this case, the reality that memory and emotion lod...
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“Ode to Those First Fifteen Minutes After the Kids Are Finally Asleep” by Clint Smith from 2023-12-13T14:35:40.678281
Clint Smith reads his poem, “Ode to Those First Fifteen Minutes After the Kids Are Finally Asleep.” This poem is featured in Clint’s On Being conversation with Krista, “What We Know in th...
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“Dance Party” by Clint Smith from 2023-12-13T14:35:40.670895
Clint Smith reads his poem, “Dance Party.” This poem is featured in Clint’s On Being conversation with Krista, “What We Know in the ‘Marrow of Our Bones.’” Find more of his poems, along w...
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Christiana Figueres — Ecological Hope, and Spiritual Evolution from 2023-12-13T14:35:40.658209
The ecological crisis we are standing before is at once civilizational and personal — intimately close to each of us in the places we love and inhabit, and unfolding at a species level. And as m...
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[Unedited] James Bridle with Krista Tippett from 2023-11-29T17:39:42.639098
You might want to take a walk with this one. It is big and full of brain food and an enlivening opening of imagination to possibilities that are emergent now: the notion of the “broad commonweal...
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[Unedited] Barbara Brown Taylor with Krista Tippett from 2023-11-29T17:39:42.589163
"I like it much better than ‘religious’ or ‘spiritual’ — to be a seeker after the sacred or the holy, which ends up for me being the really real."
– Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor
From Kr...
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[Extended] Clint Smith with Krista Tippett from 2023-11-29T17:39:42.497870
This phrase recurs throughout Clint Smith's writing: "in the marrow of our bones." It is an example of how words can hold encrypted wisdom — in this case, the reality that memory and emotion lod...
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Nick Cave — Loss, Yearning, Transcendence from 2023-11-22T19:00
Here are some experiences to which Nick Cave gives voice and song: the "universal condition" of yearning, and of loss; a "spirituality of rigor"; and the transcendent and moral dimensions of wha...
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Sara Hendren — Our Bodies, Aliveness, and the Built World from 2023-11-16T19:00
Our built world is designed around something called "normal," and yet every single one of our bodies is mysterious, and constantly adapting for better or worse — and always, always changing. Thi...
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Three Skills for Staying Calm, Sane, and Open in a Chaotic World | Krista interviewed by Dan Harris for Ten Percent Happier from 2023-10-31T20:54:41
From Krista: I loved being interviewed by Dan Harris as much as I've ever enjoyed being on the other side of the microphone (as the saying goes). He drew things out of me I didn't know I had to ...
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[Unedited] Latanya Sweeney with Krista Tippett from 2023-10-26T18:00
You may not know Latanya Sweeney's name, but as much as any other single person — and with good humor and grace as well as brilliance — she has led on the frontier of our gradual understanding o...
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[Unedited] Latanya Sweeney with Krista Tippett from 2023-10-26T18:00
You may not know Latanya Sweeney's name, but as much as any other single person — and with good humor and grace as well as brilliance — she has led on the frontier of our gradual understanding o...
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Matthew Sanford – The Body's Grace from 2023-10-19T18:00
A wondrous, buried treasure from the 20-year On Being archive, with renowned yoga teacher Matthew Sanford. Be prepared, as you listen to what follows, to take in subtleties and gracefulne...
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Baratunde Thurston — How to Be a Social Creative from 2023-10-12T18:00
Baratunde Thurston is a comedian, writer, and media entrepreneur. He has eyes open to the contradictions, strangeness, and beauty of being human. He looks for learning happening even amidst our ...
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Kerry Washington — Acting as a Devotional Practice from 2023-09-28T18:00
“Becoming other people” for a living, as Kerry Washington likes to describe her craft, turns out to be a revelatory lens on the high drama that is the human condition. As a “learning actor,” a k...
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Kate Bowler — On Being in a Body from 2023-09-21T18:05
We love the theologian Kate Bowler's allergy to every platitude and her wisdom and wit about the strange and messy fullness of what it means to be in a human body. She's best known for her 2018 ...
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Kate Bowler — A Blessing for the Life You Didn't Choose from 2023-09-21T18:00
This blessing is featured in Kate’s conversation with Krista, “On Being in a Body.” It's published in he...
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A New Season of On Being Is Coming from 2023-09-14T18:00
A big conversation to live by starting NEXT WEEK — every Thursday — from September 21.
Loss — and love. AI — and the intelligence that lives in our bodies.
Kerry Washington, Kate B...
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Patronage and Love: On Being's Becoming from 2023-04-20T19:40:03
Pádraig makes an announcement, and we listen to a few lovely moments from the On Being season we've just brought into the world.
We're inviting the beautiful humans who gather arou...
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Vivek Murthy — To Be a Healer from 2023-04-13T18:10
We need a modicum of vitality to simply be alive in this time. And we're in an enduringly tender place. The mental health crisis that is invoked all around, especially as we look to the young, i...
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Vivek Murthy — A Meditation for Moments of Despair, and To Feel Less Alone from 2023-04-13T18:05
An excerpt from the On Being episode, "To Be a Healer." The extraordinary physician and public serva...
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[Unedited] Vivek Murthy with Krista Tippett from 2023-04-13T18:00
We need a modicum of vitality to simply be alive in this time. And we're in an enduringly tender place. The mental health crisis that is invoked all around, especially as we look to the young, i...
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore — “Where life is precious, life is precious.” from 2023-03-30T18:00
To say that Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a geographer, which she is, is not to convey the vast and varied ways in which she is influencing the makings of the future. She's a mentor and teacher to a ne...
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Janine Benyus — Biomimicry, an Operating Manual for Earthlings from 2023-03-23T18:00
There is a quiet, redemptive story of our time in this conversation — a radical way of approaching the gravest of our problems by attending to how original vitality functions. Biomimicry takes t...
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Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative from 2023-03-16T18:00
The flow and the ingredients by which an idea becomes an offering — and life practices which call that alchemy forth. The mystery of it all that can only be named and wondered at — and the ordin...
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Nick Offerman — Working with Wood, and the Meaning of Life from 2023-02-23T19:00
Nick Offerman has played many great characters, most famously Ron Swanson in Parks and Recreation, and he starred more recently in an astonishing episode of The Last of Us. But he ...
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Ada Limón — “To Be Made Whole” from 2023-02-16T19:05
An electric conversation with Ada Limón's wisdom and her poetry — a refreshing, full-body experience of how this way with words and sound and silence teaches us about being human at all times, b...
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“Dead Stars” by Ada Limón from 2023-02-16T19:00
Ada Limón reads her poem, “Dead Stars.” This poem is featured in Ada’s On Being conversation with Krista, “Listen
“Dead Stars” by Ada Limón from 2023-02-16T19:00
Ada Limón reads her poem, “Dead Stars.” This poem is featured in Ada’s On Being conversation with Krista, “Listen
“The Quiet Machine” by Ada Limón from 2023-02-16T19:00
Ada Limón reads her poem, “The Quiet Machine.” This poem is featured in Ada’s On Being conversation with Krista, “Listen
Emergence: On Being Is Back! from 2023-01-26T20:00
We are immensely grateful for your patience in our season of podcasting pause. But enough already. Starting Thursday, February 2, we'll come to you with three months of soaring new On Being Listen
Foundations 3: Taking a Long View of Time, and Becoming “Critical Yeast” from 2022-10-27T18:00
We inhabit a liminal time between what we thought we knew and what we can’t quite yet see. But time is more spacious than we imagine it to be, and it is more of a friend than we always know. Cra...
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Foundations 2: Living the Questions from 2022-10-20T18:00
We live in a world in love with the form of words that is an opinion, and the way with words that is an argument. Yet it is a deep truth in life — as in science — that each of us is shaped as mu...
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Foundations 1: Seeing the Generative Story of Our Time from 2022-10-13T19:00
The first of four short offerings, more wisdom practice than podcast: life-giving, hope-generating words, ideas and practices that can literally shape your experience of reality — and shape what...
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A Season of Emergence with Krista from 2022-09-29T18:00
Krista returns from her summer in Berlin, where her present-day self reunited with the 25-year-old of the 1980s, at large in the divided city. Hear the reflections that emerged from her season o...
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BONUS: An On Being Listening Party — Celebrating 20 Years from 2022-06-30T18:00
A special offering from Krista Tippett and all of us at On Being: an incredible, celebratory event — listening back and remembering forwards across 20 years of this show in the good company of o...
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[Unedited] adrienne maree brown with Krista Tippett from 2022-06-23T18:00
“What a time to be alive,” adrienne maree brown has written. “Right now we are in a fast river together — every day there are changes that seemed unimaginable until they occurred.” adrienne mare...
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[Unedited] adrienne maree brown with Krista Tippett from 2022-06-23T18:00
“What a time to be alive,” adrienne maree brown has written. “Right now we are in a fast river together — every day there are changes that seemed unimaginable until they occurred.” adrienne mare...
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Rebecca Traister and Avi Klein — #MeToo Through a Solutions Lens from 2022-04-21T11:07:19.436364
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Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age from 2022-04-21T11:07:19.354672
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Jean Vanier — The Wisdom of Tenderness from 2022-04-21T11:07:19.275887
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Annette Gordon-Reed and Titus Kaphar — Are We Actually Citizens Here? from 2022-04-21T11:07:18.985478
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[Unedited] Amichai Lau-Lavie with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:18.959885
Forms of religious devotion are shifting — and there’s a new world of creativity toward crafting spiritual life while exploring the depths of tradition. Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is a fun and forc...
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Amichai Lau-Lavie — First Aid for Spiritual Seekers from 2022-04-21T11:07:18.947082
Forms of religious devotion are shifting — and there’s a new world of creativity toward crafting spiritual life while exploring the depths of tradition. Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is a fun and forc...
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[Unedited] Darnell Moore with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:18.944183
Darnell Moore says honest, uncomfortable conversations are a sign of love — and that self-reflection goes hand-in-hand with culture shift and social evolution. A writer and activist, he’s grown ...
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‘This Movie Changed Me’ Is Back from 2022-04-21T11:07:18.890607
Movies can be whimsical, terrifying, life-altering, culture-changing experiences where the big ideas we take up at “On Being” show up in the heart of our lives. This hour we experience this thro...
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[Unedited] Derek Black and Matthew Stevenson with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:18.850530
We’d heard Derek Black, the former white-power heir apparent, interviewed before about his past, but never about the college friendships that changed him. After Derek’s ideology was outed at the...
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[Unedited] Joy Ladin with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:18.786533
For as far back as Joy Ladin can remember, her body didn’t match her soul. In her mid-40s, Ladin transitioned from male to female identity and later became the first openly transgender professor...
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[Unedited] Brené Brown with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:18.736230
Brené Brown says our belonging to each other can’t be lost, but it can be forgotten. Her research has reminded the world in recent years of the uncomfortable, life-giving link between vulnerabil...
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[Unedited] Joe Henry with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:18.689229
Joe Henry faced his mortality in 2018 when he was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer and told he might only have months to live. Now in remission, the singer-songwriter and producer has crea...
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[Unedited] Ezra Klein with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:18.656808
Journalist Ezra Klein has been widely interviewed about his new book, Why We're Polarized. In this conversation, he's fran...
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[Unedited] Ai-jen Poo with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:18.569664
Ai-jen Poo is a next-generation labor organizer who co-founded a beautiful and muscular movement with caregivers and those who employ them: The National Domestic Workers Alliance. For over two d...
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A Poem in Gratitude for Health Care Workers from 2022-04-21T11:07:18.559059
In Leanne O’Sullivan’s poem “Leaving Early,” the poet writes to her ill husband, entrusting him into the care of a nurse named Fionnuala. ...
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[Unedited] Brother David Steindl-Rast with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:18.556824
We’re in a season of renewal in the natural world and in spiritual traditions; both Easter and Passover this year are utterly transformed. It’s drawing us back to the wisdom of Br. David Steindl...
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[Unedited] Devendra Banhart with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:18.379800
In this “spiritual book club” edition of the show, Krista and musician/artist Devendra Banhart read favorite passages and discuss When Things Fall Apart, a small book of great beauty by t...
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Living the Questions: When no question seems big enough from 2022-04-21T11:07:18.266388
With our colleague Rev. Lucas Johnson, Krista talks through the question of what questions matter for this moment. Can anyone use the word “we”? And how to begin walking forward?
Race and Healing: A Body Practice from 2022-04-21T11:07:18.263558
Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem is working with old wisdom and very new science about our bodies and nervous systems, and all we condense into the word “race.” “Your body — all of...
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[Unedited] Vincent Harding with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:18.242370
Vincent Harding was wise about how the vision of the civil rights movement might speak to 21st-century realities. He reminded us that the movement of the ‘50s and ‘60s was spiritually as well as...
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[Unedited] Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:18.237189
The show we released with Minneapolis-based trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem in the weeks after Geor...
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[Unedited] Jericho Brown with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:18.049527
The poet Jericho Brown reminds us to bear witness to the complexity of the human experience, to interrogate the proximity of violence to love, and to look and listen closer so that we might unco...
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[Unedited] Arlie Hochschild with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:18.043369
After Arlie Hochschild published her book Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, just before the 2...
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[Unedited] Karen Murphy with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.949911
We are called to consider who we want to be as a people and what kind of world we will build with and for our children. Karen Murphy has been gathering wisdom for this juncture, as she’s worked ...
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[Unedited] Frank Wilczek with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.847713
“Having tasted beauty at the heart of the world, we hunger for more.” These are words from Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek in his book, A Beautiful Question. It’s a winsome, joyful meditati...
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Drew Lanham reads from his book. from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.787921
This is an excerpt from a chapter called “New Religion” in 'The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature.'
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[Unedited] Parker Palmer with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.777147
This is the unedited conversation Krista had with Parker Palmer in 2002, which is excerpted within our produced episode “The Soul i...
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Living the Questions — What's our communal equivalent of rubbing each other's feet? from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.765765
A companion conversation to Parker Palmer’s reflections in this week’s On Being, about the soul in depression. Krista cat...
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[Unedited] Naomi Shihab Nye with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.743992
It’s pretty intriguing to follow poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s idea that most of us actually “think in poems” whether we know it or not. Rarely, as she points out, do you hear anyone say they feel wor...
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[Unedited] Serene Jones with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.666191
The glory that coexists in human life right alongside our weird propensity to choose what is not good for us; the difference between a place of sheer loss and a sacred space for mourning; grace ...
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[Unedited] Bryan Doerries with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.658218
“Remember,” Bryan Doerries likes to say in both physical and virtual gatherings, “you are not alone in this room — and you are not alone across time.” With his public health project, Theater of ...
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Living the Questions — We’ve been enmeshed with our technologies. Tech Shabbat for everyone? from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.588739
Krista’s been in a conversation with Tiffany Shlain for several years about her practice of “Tech Shabbat.” For more than a decade, she and her family have taken a rest from screens sundown Frid...
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[Unedited] Daniel Kahneman with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.584886
The classic economic theory embedded in western democracies holds an assumption that human beings will almost always behave rationally in the end and make logical choices that will keep our soci...
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[Unedited] Robert Macfarlane with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.475708
There’s dark matter in the cosmos, and inside us, and hidden beneath our feet. Robert Macfarlane is an explorer and linguist of landscape and his book, Listen
[Unedited] Jason Reynolds with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.442326
Jason Reynolds is the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature of the Library of Congress — and a magnificent source of wisdom for human society as a whole. He’s driven by compassion an...
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[Unedited] Esther Perel with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.437029
The psychotherapist Esther Perel has changed our discourse about sexuality and coupledom with her TED talks, her books, and her podcast, Where Should We Begin? Episode after episode lays ...
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[Unedited] Sharon Salzberg with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.374193
As we reflect back on 2020 and look ahead, how do we keep walking forward, and even find renewal along the way? How can we hold to our sense of what is whole and true and undamaged even in the f...
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[Unedited] Béla Fleck&Abigail Washburn with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.347881
We are digging into the archives to celebrate some of the conversations listeners have loved the most and that have shaped this project. Béla Fleck is one of the greatest living banjo players. H...
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[Unedited] Suzanne Simard with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.288987
Suzanne Simard is the forest ecologist who has proven, beyond doubt, that trees communicate with each other — that a forest is a single organism wired for wisdom and care. Simard found that the ...
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[Unedited] Mike Rose with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.257484
“I grew up a witness,” Mike Rose wrote, “to the intelligence of the waitress in motion, the reflective welder, the strategy of the guy on the assembly line. This then is something I know: the th...
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[Unedited] Bryan Stevenson with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.196916
How to embrace what’s right and corrective, redemptive and restorative — and an insistence that each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve done — these are gifts Bryan Stevenson offers with h...
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[Unedited] Vivek Murthy and Richard Davidson with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.164383
What if the future of well-being is about “tipping the scales in the world away from fear and toward love”? And what if it’s a surgeon general of the United States, Dr. Vivek Murthy, who talks t...
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[Unedited] Katherine May with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.157530
In so many stories and fables that shape us, cold and snow, the closing in of the light — these have deep psychological as much as physical reality. This is “wintering,” as the English writer Ka...
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[Unedited] Desmond Tutu with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:17.078815
The remarkable Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town and Nobel Laureate died in the closing days of 2021. He helped galvanize South Africa's improbably peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy...
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[Unedited] Trabian Shorters with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:16.980095
Trabian Shorters is a visionary who has seen and named a task that is necessary for all healing and building, for every vision and plan, whether in a family or a world, to flourish. It’s called ...
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[Unedited] Colette Pichon Battle with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:16.897246
Colette Pichon Battle is a generational native of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. The ebb and flow of the Bayou was a background rhythm in her childhood to every aspect of life. She did not ever im...
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[Unedited] Eugene Peterson with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-21T11:07:16.832689
“Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.” These are words of the late legendary biblical interpreter and teacher Eugene Peterson. At the back of the church he pas...
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[Unedited] Avivah Zornberg with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-14T18:00
You probably know the outline of the Exodus story and its main characters: Moses, the Pharaoh, the burning bush, the plagues, the parting of the sea. And, in another realm of the power of story,...
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[Unedited] Avivah Zornberg with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-14T18:00
You probably know the outline of the Exodus story and its main characters: Moses, the Pharaoh, the burning bush, the plagues, the parting of the sea. And, in another realm of the power of story,...
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[Unedited] Eugene Peterson with Krista Tippett from 2022-04-11T01:21:57.999304
“Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.” These are words of the late legendary biblical interpreter and teacher Eugene Peterson. At the back of the church he pas...
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[Unedited] Mary Oliver with Krista Tippett from 2022-03-31T18:00
The late poet Mary Oliver is among the most beloved writers of modern times. Amidst the harshness of life, she found redemption in the natural world and in beautiful, precise language. She won t...
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BONUS: An Invitation from Pádraig and Krista from 2022-03-30T19:00:06
What do poetry, songs, and prayer have in common? While preparing for the next season of Poetry Unbound, host Pádraig Ó Tuama sat down with Krista Tippett to wonder at this mystery: that ...
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[Unedited] Drew Lanham with Krista Tippett from 2022-03-24T18:00
The ornithologist Drew Lanham is lyrical in the languages of science, humans, and birds. His celebrated books include The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature an...
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[Unedited] Kate DiCamillo with Krista Tippett from 2022-03-17T18:00
Each and every adult is a former eight-year-old, wide open with yearning and possibility; understanding exactly how troubled the adults around you are, even if they think they are hiding it from...
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[Unedited] Kate DiCamillo with Krista Tippett from 2022-03-17T18:00
Each and every adult is a former eight-year-old, wide open with yearning and possibility; understanding exactly how troubled the adults around you are, even if they think they are hiding it from...
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[Unedited] Mario Livio with Krista Tippett from 2022-03-10T19:00
The astrophysicist Mario Livio spent 24 years at the Space Telescope Science Institute working with the Hubble Telescope, which has revealed the reality and beauty of the Universe to scientists ...
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[Unedited] Mario Livio with Krista Tippett from 2022-03-10T19:00
The astrophysicist Mario Livio spent 24 years at the Space Telescope Science Institute working with the Hubble Telescope, which has revealed the reality and beauty of the Universe to scientists ...
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Rebecca Traister and Avi Klein — #MeToo Through a Solutions Lens from 2022-03-07T03:50:39.269585
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[Unedited] Jean Vanier with Krista Tippett from 2022-03-07T03:50:38.984299
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[Unedited] Annette Gordon-Reed and Titus Kaphar with Krista Tippett from 2022-03-07T03:50:38.766003
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Darnell Moore — Self-Reflection and Social Evolution from 2022-03-07T03:50:38.740771
Darnell Moore says honest, uncomfortable conversations are a sign of love — and that self-reflection goes hand-in-hand with culture shift and social evolution. A writer and activist, he’s grown ...
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[Unedited] Vincent Harding with Krista Tippett from 2022-03-07T03:50:38.297967
Vincent Harding was wise about how the vision of the civil rights movement might speak to 21st-century realities. He reminded us that the movement of the ‘50s and ‘60s was spiritually as well as...
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[Unedited] Serene Jones with Krista Tippett from 2022-03-07T03:50:37.759849
The glory that coexists in human life right alongside our weird propensity to choose what is not good for us; the difference between a place of sheer loss and a sacred space for mourning; grace ...
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[Unedited] Robert Macfarlane with Krista Tippett from 2022-03-07T03:50:37.641314
There’s dark matter in the cosmos, and inside us, and hidden beneath our feet. Robert Macfarlane is an explorer and linguist of landscape and his book, Listen
[Unedited] Jason Reynolds with Krista Tippett from 2022-03-07T03:50:37.584999
Jason Reynolds is the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature of the Library of Congress — and a magnificent source of wisdom for human society as a whole. He’s driven by compassion an...
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[Unedited] Esther Perel with Krista Tippett from 2022-03-07T03:50:37.576689
The psychotherapist Esther Perel has changed our discourse about sexuality and coupledom with her TED talks, her books, and her podcast, Where Should We Begin? Episode after episode lays ...
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[Unedited] Sharon Salzberg with Krista Tippett from 2022-03-07T03:50:37.555257
As we reflect back on 2020 and look ahead, how do we keep walking forward, and even find renewal along the way? How can we hold to our sense of what is whole and true and undamaged even in the f...
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[Unedited] Be?la Fleck&Abigail Washburn with Krista Tippett from 2022-03-07T03:50:37.533097
We are digging into the archives to celebrate some of the conversations listeners have loved the most and that have shaped this project. Béla Fleck is one of the greatest living banjo players. H...
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[Unedited] Bryan Stevenson with Krista Tippett from 2022-03-07T03:50:37.442073
How to embrace what’s right and corrective, redemptive and restorative — and an insistence that each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve done — these are gifts Bryan Stevenson offers with h...
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[Unedited] Vivek Murthy and Richard Davidson with Krista Tippett from 2022-03-07T03:50:37.393448
What if the future of well-being is about “tipping the scales in the world away from fear and toward love”? And what if it’s a surgeon general of the United States, Dr. Vivek Murthy, who talks t...
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[Unedited] Colette Pichon Battle with Krista Tippett from 2022-03-06T03:05:40.649334
Colette Pichon Battle is a generational native of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. The ebb and flow of the Bayou was a background rhythm in her childhood to every aspect of life. She did not ever im...
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[Unedited] Gal Beckerman with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-24T19:00
When time becomes history, different dynamics come into focus than the ones that are at any moment screaming for attention. The title of Gal Beckerman’s book intrigues and compels: The Quiet ...
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[Unedited] Gal Beckerman with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-24T19:00
When time becomes history, different dynamics come into focus than the ones that are at any moment screaming for attention. The title of Gal Beckerman’s book intrigues and compels: The Quiet ...
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[Unedited] Maira Kalman with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:28.358355
To be in conversation with Maira Kalman is like wandering into one of her cartoons in The New Yorker. Millions have been prompted to smile and think by her illustrated revision of Strunk and White’...
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[Unedited] Maria Popova with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:28.354565
She has called Brain Pickings, her invention and labor of love, a “human-powered discovery engine for interestingness.” What Maria Popova really delivers, to hundreds of thousands of people each da...
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[Unedited] Maya Angelou with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:28.336783
A prolific writer on sociology, history, economics, and politics, W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the most extraordinary minds of American and global history. His life traced an incredible arc; he was bo...
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[Unedited] Arnold Rampersad with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:28.334680
A prolific writer on sociology, history, economics, and politics, W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the most extraordinary minds of American and global history. His life traced an incredible arc; he was bo...
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[Unedited] Elizabeth Alexander with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:28.333677
A prolific writer on sociology, history, economics, and politics, W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the most extraordinary minds of American and global history. His life traced an incredible arc; he was bo...
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Darnell Moore — Self-Reflection and Social Evolution from 2022-02-21T04:59:28.261536
Darnell Moore says honest, uncomfortable conversations are a sign of love — and that self-reflection goes hand-in-hand with culture shift and social evolution. A writer and activist, he’s grown wis...
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[Unedited] Derek Black and Matthew Stevenson with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:28.250346
We’d heard Derek Black, the former white-power heir apparent, interviewed before about his past, but never about the college friendships that changed him. After Derek’s ideology was outed at the Ne...
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[Unedited] Joy Ladin with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:28.189399
For as far back as Joy Ladin can remember, her body didn’t match her soul. In her mid-40s, Ladin transitioned from male to female identity and later became the first openly transgender professor at...
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[Unedited] Brené Brown with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:28.171672
Brené Brown says our belonging to each other can’t be lost, but it can be forgotten. Her research has reminded the world in recent years of the uncomfortable, life-giving link between vulnerability...
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[Unedited] Joe Henry with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:28.169813
Joe Henry faced his mortality in 2018 when he was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer and told he might only have months to live. Now in remission, the singer-songwriter and producer has created...
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[Unedited] Ezra Klein with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:28.163197
Journalist Ezra Klein has been widely interviewed about his new book, Why We're Polarized. In this conversation, he's frank and reflective about what's at stake in human terms in this political mom...
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[Unedited] Ai-jen Poo with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:28.146287
Ai-jen Poo is a next-generation labor organizer who co-founded a beautiful and muscular movement with caregivers and those who employ them: The National Domestic Workers Alliance. For over two deca...
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[Unedited] Brother David Steindl-Rast with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:28.143859
We’re in a season of renewal in the natural world and in spiritual traditions; both Easter and Passover this year are utterly transformed. It’s drawing us back to the wisdom of Br. David Steindl-Ra...
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[Unedited] Devendra Banhart with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:28.133684
In this “spiritual book club” edition of the show, Krista and musician/artist Devendra Banhart read favorite passages and discuss When Things Fall Apart, a small book of great beauty by the Tibetan...
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[Unedited] Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:28.079989
The show we released with Minneapolis-based trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem in the weeks after George Floyd’s killing has become one of our most popular episodes, and has touched listeners and gal...
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[Unedited] Mary Oliver with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:28.062542
Amid the harshness of life, Mary Oliver found redemption in the natural world and in beautiful, precise language. Oliver, who died in 2019, was one of the most beloved poets of modern times. She sa...
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[Unedited] Jericho Brown with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:28.051600
The poet Jericho Brown reminds us to bear witness to the complexity of the human experience, to interrogate the proximity of violence to love, and to look and listen closer so that we might uncover...
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[Unedited] Arlie Hochschild with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:28.049733
After Arlie Hochschild published her book Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, just before the 2016 election, it came to feel prescient. And the conversation Krist...
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[Unedited] Karen Murphy with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:28.040541
We are called to consider who we want to be as a people and what kind of world we will build with and for our children. Karen Murphy has been gathering wisdom for this juncture, as she’s worked aro...
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[Unedited] Frank Wilczek with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:28.026286
“Having tasted beauty at the heart of the world, we hunger for more.” These are words from Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek in his book, A Beautiful Question. It’s a winsome, joyful meditation on the ...
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Drew Lanham reads from his book. from 2022-02-21T04:59:27.985196
This is an excerpt from a chapter called “New Religion” in 'The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature.'
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[Unedited] Parker Palmer with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:27.983545
This is the unedited conversation Krista had with Parker Palmer in 2002, which is excerpted within our produced episode “The Soul in Depression.” That episode also includes the voices of Andrew Sol...
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[Unedited] Anita Barrows with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:27.982525
This is the unedited conversation Krista had with Anita Barrows in 2002, which is excerpted within our produced episode “The Soul in Depression.” That episode also includes the voices of Andrew Sol...
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[Unedited] Andrew Solomon with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:27.981731
This is the unedited conversation Krista had with Andrew Solomon in 2002, which is excerpted within our produced episode “The Soul in Depression.” That episode also includes the voices of Anita Bar...
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[Unedited] Naomi Shihab Nye with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:27.975199
It’s pretty intriguing to follow poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s idea that most of us actually “think in poems” whether we know it or not. Rarely, as she points out, do you hear anyone say they feel worse ...
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[Unedited] Bryan Doerries with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:27.961118
“Remember,” Bryan Doerries likes to say in both physical and virtual gatherings, “you are not alone in this room — and you are not alone across time.” With his public health project, Theater of War...
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[Unedited] Suzanne Simard with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:27.878841
Suzanne Simard is the forest ecologist who has proven, beyond doubt, that trees communicate with each other — that a forest is a single organism wired for wisdom and care. Simard found that the pro...
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Mike Rose – The Deepest Meanings of Intelligence and Vocation from 2022-02-21T04:59:27.870212
“I grew up a witness,” Mike Rose wrote, “to the intelligence of the waitress in motion, the reflective welder, the strategy of the guy on the assembly line. This then is something I know: the thoug...
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[Unedited] Katherine May with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:27.848526
In so many stories and fables that shape us, cold and snow, the closing in of the light — these have deep psychological as much as physical reality. This is “wintering,” as the English writer Kathe...
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[Unedited] Desmond Tutu with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:27.840691
The remarkable Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town and Nobel Laureate died in the closing days of 2021. He helped galvanize South Africa's improbably peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy. H...
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[Unedited] Trabian Shorters with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-21T04:59:27.688366
Trabian Shorters is a visionary who has seen and named a task that is necessary for all healing and building, for every vision and plan, whether in a family or a world, to flourish. It’s called Ass...
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[Unedited] Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-17T19:00
It’s a piece of deep psychological acuity, carried in many religious traditions: that each of us is defined as much by who our enemies are and how we treat them as by whom and what we love. In t...
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[Unedited] Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-17T19:00
It’s a piece of deep psychological acuity, carried in many religious traditions: that each of us is defined as much by who our enemies are and how we treat them as by whom and what we love. In this...
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[Unedited] John O'Donohue with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-10T19:00
No conversation we’ve ever done has been more beloved than this one. The Irish poet, theologian, and philosopher insisted on beauty as a human calling. He had a very Celtic, lifelong fascination...
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[Unedited] John O'Donohue with Krista Tippett from 2022-02-10T19:00
No conversation we’ve ever done has been more beloved than this one. The Irish poet, theologian, and philosopher insisted on beauty as a human calling. He had a very Celtic, lifelong fascination wi...
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[Unedited] Thich Nhat Hanh with Krista Tippett from 2022-01-27T19:05
The Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh, revered Zen master, teacher, and poet, died on January 22, 2022, in his native Vietnam. Brother Thay, as he was known by his community and students, transmuted what h...
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[Unedited] Cheri Maples with Krista Tippett from 2022-01-27T19:00
Krista interviewed Cheri Maples around the edges of a retreat with revered Zen master, teacher, and poet Thich Nhat Hanh in 2003. Parts of this interview, as well as Krista’s conversation with T...
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[Unedited] Larry Ward with Krista Tippett from 2022-01-27T19:00
Krista interviewed Larry Ward around the edges of a retreat with revered Zen master, teacher, and poet Thich Nhat Hanh in 2003. Parts of this interview, as well as Krista’s conversation with Thich ...
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[Unedited] Cheri Maples with Krista Tippett from 2022-01-27T19:00
Krista interviewed Cheri Maples around the edges of a retreat with revered Zen master, teacher, and poet Thich Nhat Hanh in 2003. Parts of this interview, as well as Krista’s conversation with Thic...
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Michael Pollan and Katherine May - The Future of Hope 4 from 2022-01-20T19:00
Michael Pollan is one of our most revelatory explorers of the interaction between the human and natural worlds — especially the plants with which we have, as he says, co-evolved — from food to c...
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[Unedited] Oliver Burkeman with Krista Tippett from 2022-01-13T19:00
Journalist Oliver Burkeman has made a delightful and important philosophical, spiritual, and practical investigation of all that is truly at stake in what we blithely refer to as “time managemen...
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[Unedited] Oliver Burkeman with Krista Tippett from 2022-01-13T19:00
Journalist Oliver Burkeman has made a delightful and important philosophical, spiritual, and practical investigation of all that is truly at stake in what we blithely refer to as “time management.”...
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[Unedited] Gordon Hempton with Krista Tippett from 2021-12-30T19:00
Acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton collects sounds from around the world. He’s recorded inside Sitka spruce logs in the Pacific Northwest, thunder in the Kalahari Desert, and dawn breaking across...
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[Unedited] Gordon Hempton with Krista Tippett from 2021-12-30T19:00
Acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton collects sounds from around the world. He’s recorded inside Sitka spruce logs in the Pacific Northwest, thunder in the Kalahari Desert, and dawn breaking across si...
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[Unedited] Jeff Chu with Krista Tippett from 2021-12-23T19:00
Here we are in a religiously-infused season — and in a world in which more and more of us experience ourselves to be religious nomads, misfits, even refugees. This deep reality of our life toget...
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[Unedited] Jeff Chu with Krista Tippett from 2021-12-23T19:00
Here we are in a religiously-infused season — and in a world in which more and more of us experience ourselves to be religious nomads, misfits, even refugees. This deep reality of our life together...
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[Unedited] Jane Hirshfield with Krista Tippett from 2021-12-16T20:00
The esteemed writer Jane Hirshfield has been a Zen monk and a visiting artist among neuroscientists. She has said this: “It’s my nature to question, to look at the opposite side. I believe that ...
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[Unedited] Jane Hirshfield with Krista Tippett from 2021-12-16T20:00
The esteemed writer Jane Hirshfield has been a Zen monk and a visiting artist among neuroscientists. She has said this: “It’s my nature to question, to look at the opposite side. I believe that the...
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[Unedited] Jane Goodall with Krista Tippett from 2021-11-24T22:30
Jane Goodall’s early research studying chimpanzees helped shape the self-understanding of our species and recalled modern Western science to the fact that we are a part of nature, not separate f...
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[Unedited] Jane Goodall with Krista Tippett from 2021-11-24T22:30
Jane Goodall’s early research studying chimpanzees helped shape the self-understanding of our species and recalled modern Western science to the fact that we are a part of nature, not separate f...
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Jane Goodall on What it Means to Be Human from 2021-11-23T02:56:47.375367
Jane Goodall’s early research studying chimpanzees helped shape the self-understanding of our species and recalled modern western science to the fact that we are a part of nature not separate from ...
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Pico Iyer and Elizabeth Gilbert – The Future of Hope 3 from 2021-11-18T19:00
Pico Iyer is an esteemed journalist and essayist, and an explorer of inner life — for himself and in 21st-century society. For this episode in our Future of Hope series, he draws out writer Eliz...
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[Unedited] Bessel van der Kolk with Krista Tippett from 2021-11-11T19:00
Krista interviewed the psychiatrist and trauma specialist Bessel van der Kolk for the first time in 2013, as his book The Body Keeps the Score was about to be published. He is an innovator in tr...
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[Unedited] Bessel van der Kolk with Krista Tippett from 2021-11-11T19:00
Krista interviewed the psychiatrist and trauma specialist Bessel van der Kolk for the first time in 2013, as his book The Body Keeps the Score was about to be published. He is an innovator in tr...
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[Unedited] Pádraig Ó Tuama and Marilyn Nelson with Krista Tippett from 2021-10-28T18:00
Where to turn to find my place of standing when it feels like the world is on fire? This question surfaced in a public conversation Krista had just a couple of years ago with Pádraig Ó Tuama and...
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Bryan Stevenson — Love is the Motive from 2021-10-28T11:41:11.144402
How to embrace what’s right and corrective, redemptive and restorative — and an insistence that each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve done — these are gifts Bryan Stevenson offers with his ...
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[Unedited] Katharine Hayhoe with Krista Tippett from 2021-10-21T18:00
Katharine Hayhoe is one of the most esteemed atmospheric scientists in the world. She’s made her mark by connecting dots between climate systems and weather patterns and the lived experience of ...
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[Unedited] Katharine Hayhoe with Krista Tippett from 2021-10-21T18:00
Katharine Hayhoe is one of the most esteemed atmospheric scientists in the world. She’s made her mark by connecting dots between climate systems and weather patterns and the lived experience of hum...
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Darnell Moore and dream hampton — The Future of Hope 2 from 2021-10-14T18:00
We’re in a time as thick with uncertainty as with possibility. Many of us are still, and again, exhausted — and yet opening, fitfully, to what we’ve learned and have been called to at this momen...
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[Unedited] Priya Parker with Krista Tippett from 2021-09-30T18:00
Priya Parker has become the voice of what it means to gather in this world we inhabit now. She is helping remake the “how” of coming together — and more importantly, the “why.” Long before the p...
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[Unedited] Priya Parker with Krista Tippett from 2021-09-30T18:00
Priya Parker has become the voice of what it means to gather in this world we inhabit now. She is helping remake the “how” of coming together — and more importantly, the “why.” Long before the pand...
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[Unedited] Stephen Batchelor with Krista Tippett from 2021-09-23T18:00
One of the great challenges of life is to learn to be alone peaceably, at home in oneself. The pandemic forced many of us inside both physically and emotionally, even if we were not home on our ...
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[Unedited] Stephen Batchelor with Krista Tippett from 2021-09-23T18:00
One of the great challenges of life is to learn to be alone peaceably, at home in oneself. The pandemic forced many of us inside both physically and emotionally, even if we were not home on our own...
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Kate Bowler and Wajahat Ali — The Future of Hope from 2021-09-16T18:10
An irreverent conversation about hope between journalist Wajahat Ali and theologian Kate Bowler. They speak to this moment we’re in through the friendship they found on the edge of life and deat...
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The Future of Hope — Trailer from 2021-09-14T21:11:41
This past year has held layers of loss and grief and rupture as well as tectonic shifts of opening and learning and possibility. We walk into a world trying to open up, fitfully, that we must in ma...
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[Unedited] Be?la Fleck & Abigail Washburn with Krista Tippett from 2021-09-09T02:08:56.780657
We are digging into the archives to celebrate some of the conversations listeners have loved the most and that have shaped this project. Béla Fleck is one of the greatest living banjo players. He’s...
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[Unedited] Luis Alberto Urrea with Krista Tippett from 2021-08-26T18:00
The wonderful writer Luis Alberto Urrea says that a deep truth of our time is that “we miss each other.” He is singularly wise about the deep meaning and the problem of borders. The Mexican-Amer...
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[Unedited] Luis Alberto Urrea with Krista Tippett from 2021-08-26T18:00
The wonderful writer Luis Alberto Urrea says that a deep truth of our time is that “we miss each other.” He is singularly wise about the deep meaning and the problem of borders. The Mexican-America...
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[Unedited] Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem with Krista Tippett from 2021-08-19T18:00
Through the ruptures of the past year and more, we’ve been given so much to learn, and callings to live differently. But how to do that, and where to begin? Resmaa Menakem’s book, My Grandmot...
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Kevin Kling — The Losses We Grow Into from 2021-08-12T18:00
We are digging into the archives to celebrate some of the conversations listeners have loved the most and that have shaped this project. Kevin Kling is part funny guy, part poet and playwright, ...
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[Unedited]Jen Bailey with Krista Tippett from 2021-07-29T18:00
“I’m entering into this next phase… with a great deal of curiosity and perhaps tenderness, wanting to hold each other tight, because I think that there are ramifications of last year that have y...
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[Unedited] Jen Bailey with Krista Tippett from 2021-07-29T18:00
“I’m entering into this next phase… with a great deal of curiosity and perhaps tenderness, wanting to hold each other tight, because I think that there are ramifications of last year that have yet ...
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[Unedited] Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach with Krista Tippett from 2021-07-22T18:00
Glennon Doyle’s book Untamed has been a sensation of 2020 and beyond, and now she’s launched a new podcast titled with words of hers that have become a cultural force: We Can Do Hard T...
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[Unedited] Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach with Krista Tippett from 2021-07-22T18:00
Glennon Doyle’s book Untamed has been a sensation of 2020 and beyond, and now she’s launched a new podcast titled with words of hers that have become a cultural force: We Can Do Hard T...
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[Unedited] Brian Greene with Krista Tippett – 2021 Conversation from 2021-07-15T18:00
If we didn’t have vast civilizational challenges upon us, we might be living in a constant state of wonder at what science in this century is learning and showing us about the cosmos and about o...
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[Unedited] Brian Greene with Krista Tippett – 2021 Conversation from 2021-07-15T18:00
If we didn’t have vast civilizational challenges upon us, we might be living in a constant state of wonder at what science in this century is learning and showing us about the cosmos and about ours...
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[Unedited] Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows with Krista Tippett from 2021-06-24T18:00
A new translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet has been released in a world in which his voice and vision feel as resonant as ever before. In ten letters to a young per...
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[Unedited] Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows with Krista Tippett from 2021-06-24T18:00
A new translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet has been released in a world in which his voice and vision feel as resonant as ever before. In ten letters to a young person in 190...
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[Unedited] Alex Elle with Liliana Maria Percy Ruiz from 2021-06-17T18:00
Alex Elle complicates the idea of self-care, opening it up as community-care, as a way towards generational healing. And she’s revivifying the meaning of meeting one’s “inner child” for a new ge...
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[Unedited] Alex Elle with Liliana Maria Percy Ruiz from 2021-06-17T18:00
Alex Elle complicates the idea of self-care, opening it up as community-care, as a way towards generational healing. And she’s revivifying the meaning of meeting one’s “inner child” for a new gener...
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[Unedited] Nicholas Christakis with Krista Tippett from 2021-06-10T18:00
Elemental human capacities like friendship and love, teaching and learning, have tremendous, constant, practical force. We don’t think of these in terms of what has given our species the grit to...
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[Unedited] Nicholas Christakis with Krista Tippett from 2021-06-10T18:00
Elemental human capacities like friendship and love, teaching and learning, have tremendous, constant, practical force. We don’t think of these in terms of what has given our species the grit to en...
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[Unedited] Tracy K. Smith and Michael Kleber-Diggs with Krista Tippett from 2021-05-27T18:00
The pandemic memoirs began almost immediately, and now comes another kind of offering — a searching look at the meaning of the racial catharsis to which the pandemic in some sense gave birth and...
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[Unedited] Tracy K. Smith and Michael Kleber-Diggs with Krista Tippett from 2021-05-27T18:00
The pandemic memoirs began almost immediately, and now comes another kind of offering — a searching look at the meaning of the racial catharsis to which the pandemic in some sense gave birth and vo...
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[Unedited] Jill Tarter with Krista Tippett from 2021-05-20T18:00
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence — or SETI — goes beyond hunting for E.T. and habitable planets. Scientists in the field are using telescopes and satellites looking for signs of outr...
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[Extended] Joy Harjo with Krista Tippett from 2021-05-13T18:00
“Though we have instructions and a map buried in our hearts when we enter this world,” the extraordinary Joy Harjo has written, “nothing quite prepares us for the abrupt shift to the breathing r...
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[Extended] Joy Harjo with Krista Tippett from 2021-05-13T18:00
“Though we have instructions and a map buried in our hearts when we enter this world,” the extraordinary Joy Harjo has written, “nothing quite prepares us for the abrupt shift to the breathing r...
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[Unedited] Hanif Abdurraqib with Pa?draig O? Tuama from 2021-04-29T20:00
Hanif Abdurraqib’s writing is filled with lyricism, rhythm, people and precision. In his essays and poetry, he introduces readers to a soundscape of Black performance and Black joy: we hear hip-hop...
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[Unedited] Hanif Abdurraqib with Pádraig Ó Tuama from 2021-04-29T18:00
Hanif Abdurraqib’s writing is filled with lyricism, rhythm, people and precision. In his essays and poetry, he introduces readers to a soundscape of Black performance and Black joy: we hear hip-...
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[Unedited] Layli Long Soldier with Krista Tippett from 2021-04-22T18:00
Layli Long Soldier is a writer, a mother, a citizen of the United States, and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She has a way of opening up this part of her life, and of American life, to i...
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[Unedited] Layli Long Soldier with Krista Tippett from 2021-04-22T18:00
Layli Long Soldier is a writer, a mother, a citizen of the United States, and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She has a way of opening up this part of her life, and of American life, to insp...
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[Unedited] Resmaa Menakem with Krista Tippett from 2021-04-15T18:00
Across the past year, and now as the murder trial of Derek Chauvin unfolds with Minneapolis in fresh pain and turmoil, we return again to the grounding insights of Resmaa Menakem. He is a Minneapol...
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Resmaa Menakem — ’Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence’ from 2021-04-15T01:49:13.791757
The best laws and diversity training have not gotten us anywhere near where we want to go. Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem is working with old wisdom and very new science about our b...
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Serene Jones — On Grace from 2021-04-01T04:19:53.357887
Serene Jones describes theology as the place and story you think of when you ask yourself about the meaning of your life, the world, and the possibility of God. For her, that place is a “dusty piec...
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[Unedited] Michael Longley with Krista Tippett from 2021-03-25T18:00
To reassert the liveliness of ordinary things, precisely in the face of what is hardest and most broken in life and society — this has been Michael Longley’s gift as one of Northern Ireland’s fo...
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[Unedited] Michael Longley with Krista Tippett from 2021-03-25T18:00
To reassert the liveliness of ordinary things, precisely in the face of what is hardest and most broken in life and society — this has been Michael Longley’s gift as one of Northern Ireland’s forem...
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[Unedited] Christine Runyan with Krista Tippett from 2021-03-18T18:00
The light at the end of the COVID tunnel is tenuously appearing - yet many of us feel as exhausted as at any time in the past year. Memory problems; short fuses; fractured productivity; sudden d...
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[Unedited] Christine Runyan with Krista Tippett from 2021-03-18T18:00
The light at the end of the COVID tunnel is tenuously appearing - yet many of us feel as exhausted as at any time in the past year. Memory problems; short fuses; fractured productivity; sudden drop...
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[Unedited] Ocean Vuong with Krista Tippett from 2021-03-11T19:00
Krista interviewed the wise and wonderful writer Ocean Vuong on March 8, 2020 in a joyful, crowded room full of podcasters in Brooklyn. A state of emergency had just been declared in New York ar...
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[Unedited] Ocean Vuong with Krista Tippett from 2021-03-11T19:00
Krista interviewed the wise and wonderful writer Ocean Vuong on March 8, 2020 in a joyful, crowded room full of podcasters in Brooklyn. A state of emergency had just been declared in New York aroun...
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The Question “Who Am I,” and Movies We Love from 2021-02-25T19:00
So many of us have been getting through this year by watching movies at home by ourselves, or with friends on Zoom, inventing new ways to grieve and to hope, to keep ourselves laughing, all thro...
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[Extended] Ariel Burger with Krista Tippett from 2021-02-18T19:00
There is a question rolling around even in the most secular of corners: What do religious people and traditions have to teach as we do the work ahead of repairing, renewing, and remaking our soc...
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[Extended] Ariel Burger with Krista Tippett from 2021-02-18T19:00
There is a question rolling around even in the most secular of corners: What do religious people and traditions have to teach as we do the work ahead of repairing, renewing, and remaking our societ...
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[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett from 2021-02-11T19:00
As people, and as a culture, Alain de Botton says, we would be much saner and happier if we reexamined our very view of love. His New York Times essay, “Why You Will Marry the Wrong Perso...
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[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett from 2021-02-11T19:00
As people, and as a culture, Alain de Botton says, we would be much saner and happier if we reexamined our very view of love. His New York Times essay, “Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person,” is one...
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[Unedited] Drew Lanham with Krista Tippett from 2021-01-28T19:00
The ornithologist Drew Lanham is lyrical in the languages of science, humans, and birds. He’s a professor of wildlife ecology, a self-described “hunter-conservationist,” and author of the celebr...
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[Unedited] Drew Lanham with Krista Tippett from 2021-01-28T19:00
The ornithologist Drew Lanham is lyrical in the languages of science, humans, and birds. He’s a professor of wildlife ecology, a self-described “hunter-conservationist,” and author of the celebrate...
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Katherine May Reads from'Wintering' from 2021-01-25T22:36:20
This passage of Katherine May's book, read by her in our latest show, is so lovely that we decided to offer it up as its own meditation. There's also a beautiful Listen
Living the Questions: A Civil Rights Elder on Exhaustion and Rest, Spiritual Practice, and the Necessity of Loving Community from 2021-01-18T07:00
Our colleague Lucas Johnson catches up with one of his mentors, Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons. Now a member of the National Council of Elders, she was a teenager when she joined the Mississippi Free...
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[Unedited] Nicki Giovanni with Krista Tippett from 2021-01-14T19:00
It feels good and right this week to sit with the beloved writer Nikki Giovanni’s signature mix of high seriousness, sweeping perspective, and insistent pleasure. In the 1960s, she was a poet of...
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[Unedited] Nicki Giovanni with Krista Tippett from 2021-01-14T19:00
It feels good and right this week to sit with the beloved writer Nikki Giovanni’s signature mix of high seriousness, sweeping perspective, and insistent pleasure. In the 1960s, she was a poet of th...
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[Unedited] Mary Catherine Bateson with Krista Tippett from 2020-12-31T19:00
Underpinning all the great challenges of our time there is the human drama, the human condition. And as we move beyond 2020, we turn to Mary Catherine Bateson to help us understand the puzzle of...
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[Unedited] Mary Catherine Bateson with Krista Tippett from 2020-12-31T19:00
Underpinning all the great challenges of our time there is the human drama, the human condition. And as we move beyond 2020, we turn to Mary Catherine Bateson to help us understand the puzzle of be...
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[Unedited] Gaelynn Lea with Krista Tippett from 2020-12-23T21:40:58
Gaelynn Lea’s voice and violin land like a balm — an offering of both clarity and gladness that can still be mustered in this midwinter, this upended Christmas season. She first came to the atte...
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[Unedited] Gaelynn Lea with Krista Tippett from 2020-12-23T21:40:58
Gaelynn Lea’s voice and violin land like a balm — an offering of both clarity and gladness that can still be mustered in this midwinter, this upended Christmas season. She first came to the attenti...
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[Unedited] Jennifer Michael Hecht with Krista Tippett from 2020-12-17T19:00
“We are indebted to one another and the debt is a kind of faith — a beautiful, difficult, strange faith. We believe each other into being.” That’s the message the philosopher, poet, and historia...
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[Unedited] Jennifer Michael Hecht with Krista Tippett from 2020-12-17T19:00
“We are indebted to one another and the debt is a kind of faith — a beautiful, difficult, strange faith. We believe each other into being.” That’s the message the philosopher, poet, and historian, ...
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[Unedited] Bishop Michael Curry&Dr. Russell Moore with Krista Tippett from 2020-12-10T19:00
We’re in a tender spiritual moment, widely feeling our need for re-grounding both alone and together. By way of the Almighty force of Zoom, Krista engages a forward-looking conversation with two...
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[Unedited] Bishop Michael Curry & Dr. Russell Moore with Krista Tippett from 2020-12-10T19:00
We’re in a tender spiritual moment, widely feeling our need for re-grounding both alone and together. By way of the Almighty force of Zoom, Krista engages a forward-looking conversation with two re...
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[Unedited] Agusti?n Fuentes with Krista Tippett from 2020-11-25T23:30
We’ve realized in 2020 that the way we’ve organized culture — from the economy to race to work — could be done radically differently. We’ve been modeling our life together on “survival of the fitte...
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[Unedited] Agustín Fuentes with Krista Tippett from 2020-11-25T22:30
We’ve realized in 2020 that the way we’ve organized culture — from the economy to race to work — could be done radically differently. We’ve been modeling our life together on “survival of the fi...
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[Unedited] Richard Blanco with Krista Tippett from 2020-11-19T19:00
The Cuban American civil engineer turned writer, Richard Blanco, straddles the many ways a sense of place merges with human emotion to make home and belonging — personal and communal. The most r...
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[Unedited] Richard Blanco with Krista Tippett from 2020-11-19T19:00
The Cuban American civil engineer turned writer, Richard Blanco, straddles the many ways a sense of place merges with human emotion to make home and belonging — personal and communal. The most rece...
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[Unedited] Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks with Krista Tippett from 2020-11-12T19:00
Rabbi Sacks was one of the world’s deepest thinkers on religion and the challenges of modern life. He died last week after a short battle with cancer. When Krista spoke with him in 2010, he mode...
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[Unedited] Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks with Krista Tippett from 2020-11-12T19:00
Rabbi Sacks was one of the world’s deepest thinkers on religion and the challenges of modern life. He died last week after a short battle with cancer. When Krista spoke with him in 2010, he modeled...
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Wild Geese by Mary Oliver from 2020-10-30T19:07:50
Mary Oliver reads her poem, “Wild Geese.” This poem is included in our Listen
Ars Poetica #100: I Believe by Elizabeth Alexander from 2020-10-30T19:06:54
Elizabeth Alexander reads her poem, “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe.” This poem is included in our Listen
The Facts of Life by Pádraig Ó Tuama from 2020-10-30T19:05:53
Pádraig Ó Tuama reads his poem, “The Facts of Life.” This poem is included in our Listen
This is what was bequeathed us by Gregory Orr from 2020-10-30T19:03:45
Gregory Orr reads his poem, “This is what was bequeathed us.” This poem is included in our Listen
America the Beautiful Again by Richard Blanco from 2020-10-30T18:59:33
Richard Blanco reads his poem, “America the Beautiful Again.” This poem is included in our Listen
[Unedited] John Biewen with Krista Tippett from 2020-10-29T18:00
The U.S. election will be over soon but this year has surfaced deep human challenges that remain our callings — and possibilities for growth — for the foreseeable future. So this week and next, ...
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[Unedited] John Biewen with Krista Tippett from 2020-10-29T18:00
The U.S. election will be over soon but this year has surfaced deep human challenges that remain our callings — and possibilities for growth — for the foreseeable future. So this week and next, we’...
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Sharon Salzberg — Shelter for the Heart and Mind from 2020-10-22T18:05
How can we keep walking forward, and even find renewal along the way, in this year of things blown apart? How can we hold to our sense of what is whole and true and undamaged, even in the face of l...
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[Unedited] Rev. Otis Moss III with Krista Tippett from 2020-10-15T18:00
An hour to sit with, and be filled. Two voices — one from the last century, one from ours — who inspire inward contemplation as an essential part of meeting the challenges in the world. Howard T...
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[Unedited] Rev. Otis Moss III with Krista Tippett from 2020-10-15T18:00
An hour to sit with, and be filled. Two voices — one from the last century, one from ours — who inspire inward contemplation as an essential part of meeting the challenges in the world. Howard Thur...
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From Poetry Unbound: Ada Limón — “Wonder Woman” from 2020-09-28T06:00:06
We’re happy to share the first episode of the new season of Poetry Unbound with host Pádraig Ó Tuama. This poem by Ada Limón tells...
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‘Poetry Unbound’ Returns, With Wisdom For Living Now from 2020-09-24T18:00:01
Poetry rises up in human societies in times of crisis when official words fail us and we lose sight of how to find our way back to one another; how to hear each other’s voices. This week we offe...
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[Unedited] Craig Minowa and Cloud Cult with Krista Tippett from 2020-09-17T18:00:05
Music is a source of solace and nourishment in the best of times and the hardest of times. It has been for so many of us in this year of pandemic, and Cloud Cult is on every playlist Krista make...
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[Unedited] Craig Minowa and Cloud Cult with Krista Tippett from 2020-09-17T18:00:05
Music is a source of solace and nourishment in the best of times and the hardest of times. It has been for so many of us in this year of pandemic, and Cloud Cult is on every playlist Krista makes. ...
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Living the Questions: Why 2020 hasn’t taken Rev. angel by surprise from 2020-09-10T18:35:09
A companion conversation to this week’s On Being episode — Krista catches up with Rev. angel Kyodo williams on how she’s keeping her fearlessness alive through pandemic and rupture.
[Unedited] angel Kyodo williams with Krista Tippett from 2020-09-10T18:30:07
This prophetic conversation, which Rev. angel Kyodo williams had with Krista in 2018, is an invitation to imagine and nourish the transformative potential of this moment — toward human wholeness...
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[Unedited] angel Kyodo williams with Krista Tippett from 2020-09-10T18:30:07
This prophetic conversation, which Rev. angel Kyodo williams had with Krista in 2018, is an invitation to imagine and nourish the transformative potential of this moment — toward human wholeness. R...
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[Unedited] Michael McCarthy with Krista Tippett from 2020-08-27T18:00:13
“The sudden passionate happiness which the natural world can occasionally trigger in us may well be the most serious business of all,” Michael McCarthy writes. He is a naturalist and journalist ...
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[Unedited] Michael McCarthy with Krista Tippett from 2020-08-27T18:00:13
“The sudden passionate happiness which the natural world can occasionally trigger in us may well be the most serious business of all,” Michael McCarthy writes. He is a naturalist and journalist wit...
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[Unedited] Robin Wall Kimmerer with Krista Tippett from 2020-08-20T18:00:12
As a botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Robin Wall Kimmerer joins science’s ability to “polish the art of seeing” with her personal, civilizational lineage of listening to pla...
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[Unedited] Robin Wall Kimmerer with Krista Tippett from 2020-08-20T18:00:12
As a botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Robin Wall Kimmerer joins science’s ability to “polish the art of seeing” with her personal, civilizational lineage of listening to plant ...
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Dario Robleto — Sculptor of Time and Loss from 2020-08-13T18:05:08
Dario Robleto has been called a sculptural artist, a philosopher, and a “materialist poet.” He works with unconventional materials — from dinosaur fossils and meteorites to pulverized vintage recor...
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[Unedited] Dario Robleto with Krista Tippett from 2020-08-13T18:00:03
Dario Robleto has been called a sculptural artist, a philosopher, and a “materialist poet.” He works with unconventional materials — from dinosaur fossils and meteorites to pulverized vintage re...
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[Unedited] Marilyn Nelson with Krista Tippett from 2020-07-30T18:15:01
Marilyn Nelson is a storytelling poet who has taught poetry and contemplative practice to college students and West Point cadets. She brings a contemplative eye to ordinary goodness in the prese...
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[Unedited] Marilyn Nelson with Krista Tippett from 2020-07-30T18:15:01
Marilyn Nelson is a storytelling poet who has taught poetry and contemplative practice to college students and West Point cadets. She brings a contemplative eye to ordinary goodness in the present ...
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[Unedited] John Lewis with Krista Tippett from 2020-07-23T18:00:05
An extraordinary conversation with the late congressman John Lewis, taped in Montgomery, Alabama, during a pilgrimage 50 years after the March on Washington. It offers a rare look inside his wis...
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[Unedited] John Lewis with Krista Tippett from 2020-07-23T18:00:05
An extraordinary conversation with the late congressman John Lewis, taped in Montgomery, Alabama, during a pilgrimage 50 years after the March on Washington. It offers a rare look inside his wisdom...
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Living the Questions: It’s really settling in now, the losses large and small from 2020-07-17T20:10:43
Pauline Boss joins Krista to ponder what it means to be living through a collective experience of “ambiguous loss” right now. This is a companion to Listen
[Unedited] Pauline Boss with Krista Tippett from 2020-07-16T18:00:06
Pauline Boss coined the term “ambiguous loss” and invented a new field within psychology to name the reality that every loss does not hold a promise of anything like resolution. Amid this pandem...
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[Unedited] Pauline Boss with Krista Tippett from 2020-07-16T18:00:06
Pauline Boss coined the term “ambiguous loss” and invented a new field within psychology to name the reality that every loss does not hold a promise of anything like resolution. Amid this pandemic,...
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Jason Reynolds — Fortifying Imagination from 2020-06-25T18:05:01
Books that fortify the young also have a power to help heal adults; so, too, does this conversation with writer Jason Reynolds. He is the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature of the Li...
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[Unedited] Isabel Wilkerson with Krista Tippett from 2020-06-18T18:00:04
Go to the doctor and they won’t begin to treat you without taking your history — and not just yours, but that of your parents and grandparents before you. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabe...
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[Unedited] Isabel Wilkerson with Krista Tippett from 2020-06-18T18:00:04
Go to the doctor and they won’t begin to treat you without taking your history — and not just yours, but that of your parents and grandparents before you. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel W...
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[Unedited] Eula Biss with Krista Tippett from 2020-06-11T18:00:03
You can’t think about something if you can’t talk about it, says Eula Biss. The writer helpfully opens up lived words and ideas like complacence, guilt, and opportunity hoarding fo...
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[Unedited] Eula Biss with Krista Tippett from 2020-06-11T18:00:03
You can’t think about something if you can’t talk about it, says Eula Biss. The writer helpfully opens up lived words and ideas like complacence, guilt, and opportunity hoarding for an urgent recko...
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Gregory Orr — Shaping Grief With Language from 2020-05-28T18:05:02
We often explore on this show the places in the human experience where ordinary language falls short. The poet Gregory Orr has wrested gentle, healing, life-giving words from extreme grief and trau...
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[Unedited] Gregory Orr with Krista Tippett from 2020-05-28T18:00:09
We often explore on this show the places in the human experience where ordinary language falls short. The poet Gregory Orr has wrested gentle, healing, life-giving words from extreme grief and t...
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[Unedited] Jacqueline Novogratz with Krista Tippett 2020 from 2020-05-21T18:00:13
Moral reckonings are being driven to the surface of our life together: What are politics for? What is an economy for? Jacqueline Novogratz says the simplistic ways we take up such questions — if...
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[Unedited] Jacqueline Novogratz with Krista Tippett 2020 from 2020-05-21T18:00:13
Moral reckonings are being driven to the surface of our life together: What are politics for? What is an economy for? Jacqueline Novogratz says the simplistic ways we take up such questions — if we...
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Samar Jarrah, Wajahat Ali, Sahar Ullah, et al. — Revealing Ramadan from 2020-05-14T18:00:10
This year Muslims are experiencing a Ramadan like no other. The month is usually a period of both intimacy and great community. Now Muslims are improvising, as in many places the rituals of Rama...
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Living the Questions: How can we balance connection with disconnection? from 2020-04-28T21:00:13
To a question from listener Vanessa Parfett in Melbourne, Krista reflects on "Zoomzaustion" and relearning the primacy of our bodies. Also, how this helps explain poetry's rise in our midst, and...
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“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry from 2020-04-16T19:49:21
Wendell Berry reads his poem “The Peace of Wild Things”
Wendell Berry is a farmer, poet, and environmentalist who has published more than 40 books. He lives in Port Royal, Kentucky.
“How to Be a Poet (to remind myself)” by Wendell Berry from 2020-04-16T19:48:45
Wendell Berry reads his poem “How to Be a Poet (to remind myself)”
Wendell Berry is a farmer, poet, and environmentalist who has published more than 40 books. He lives in Port Royal, Kentu...
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“Sabbaths – 1985, I” by Wendell Berry from 2020-04-16T19:48:16
Wendell Berry reads his poem “Sabbaths – 1985, I”
Wendell Berry is a farmer, poet, and environmentalist who has published more than 40 books. He lives in Port Royal, Kentucky.
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“Sabbaths – 1979, IV” by Wendell Berry from 2020-04-16T19:47:57
Wendell Berry reads his poem “Sabbaths – 1979, IV”
Wendell Berry is a farmer, poet, and environmentalist who has published more than 40 books. He lives in Port Royal, Kentucky.
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“The Man Born to Farming” by Wendell Berry from 2020-04-16T19:47:35
Wendell Berry reads his poem “The Man Born to Farming”
Wendell Berry is a farmer, poet, and environmentalist who has published more than 40 books. He lives in Port Royal, Kentucky.
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“The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer” by Wendell Berry from 2020-04-16T19:47
Wendell Berry reads his poem “The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer”
Wendell Berry is a farmer, poet, and environmentalist who has published more than 40 books. He lives in Port Royal, Kentuc...
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[Unedited] Ellen Davis with Krista Tippett from 2020-04-16T19:35:03
In this intimate conversation between Krista and one of her beloved teachers, we ponder the world and our place in it, through sacred text, with fresh eyes. In the edited version of this convers...
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[Unedited] Ellen Davis with Krista Tippett from 2020-04-16T19:35:03
In this intimate conversation between Krista and one of her beloved teachers, we ponder the world and our place in it, through sacred text, with fresh eyes. In the edited version of this convers...
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Living the Questions: How can I find my footing in a shifting world? from 2020-04-14T19:18:09
To a question from listener Elena Rivera of Colorado Springs, Krista reflects on seeing this as a collective moment of transition (which is always stressful in human life) and ponders what we mi...
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Living the Questions: At home, frustrated and stressed — is'just being'worthy right now? from 2020-03-31T20:30:31
“If I believe that we are all inherently worthy just by being human, how can I feel that way when I feel I’m doing ‘nothing?’” — Anna Bondoc from Los Angeles
So many of us are raised to be...
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[Unedited] Ross Gay with Krista Tippett from 2020-03-26T18:05:04
In this unsettled moment, we’re returning to the shows we’re longing to hear again. Among them is this 2019 conversation with writer Ross Gay. The ephemeral nature of our being allows him to fin...
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[Unedited] Ross Gay with Krista Tippett from 2020-03-26T18:05:04
In this unsettled moment, we’re returning to the shows we’re longing to hear again. Among them is this 2019 conversation with writer Ross Gay. The ephemeral nature of our being allows him to find d...
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[Unedited] Rebecca Solnit with Krista Tippett from 2020-03-19T18:00:07
“When all the ordinary divides and patterns are shattered, people step up to become their brothers’ keepers,” Rebecca Solnit writes. “And that purposefulness and connectedness bring joy even ami...
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[Unedited] Rebecca Solnit with Krista Tippett from 2020-03-19T18:00:07
“When all the ordinary divides and patterns are shattered, people step up to become their brothers’ keepers,” Rebecca Solnit writes. “And that purposefulness and connectedness bring joy even amidst...
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[Unedited] Carlo Rovelli with Krista Tippett from 2020-03-12T17:36:02
Physicist Carlo Rovelli says humans don’t understand the world as made by things, “we understand the world made by kisses, or things like kisses — happenings.” This everyday truth is as scientif...
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[Unedited] Carlo Rovelli with Krista Tippett from 2020-03-12T17:36:02
Physicist Carlo Rovelli says humans don’t understand the world as made by things, “we understand the world made by kisses, or things like kisses — happenings.” This everyday truth is as scientific ...
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Jill Tarter — It Takes a Cosmos to Make a Human from 2020-02-27T18:05:10
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence — or SETI — goes beyond hunting for E.T. and habitable planets. Scientists in the field are using telescopes and satellites looking for signs of outrigh...
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[Unedited] George Coyne and Guy Consolmagno with Krista Tippett from 2020-02-20T19:52:24
The wise and beloved Vatican astronomer Father George Coyne died last week. Like most of the Vatican astronomers across history, he was a Jesuit. More than 30 objects on the moon are named after...
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[Unedited] George Coyne and Guy Consolmagno with Krista Tippett from 2020-02-20T19:52:24
The wise and beloved Vatican astronomer Father George Coyne died last week. Like most of the Vatican astronomers across history, he was a Jesuit. More than 30 objects on the moon are named after th...
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[Unedited] Sandra Cisneros with Krista Tippett from 2020-02-13T18:48:38
The House on Mango Street by Mexican American writer Sandra Cisneros has been taught in high schools across the U.S. for decades. A poetic writer of many genres, she’s received a MacArthu...
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[Unedited] Sandra Cisneros with Krista Tippett from 2020-02-13T18:48:38
The House on Mango Street by Mexican American writer Sandra Cisneros has been taught in high schools across the U.S. for decades. A poetic writer of many genres, she’s received a MacArthur “genius ...
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[Unedited] Pa?draig O? Tuama and Marilyn Nelson with Krista Tippett from 2020-01-30T18:03:03
Pádraig Ó Tuama and Marilyn Nelson are beloved teachers to many; to bring them together was a delight and a balm. Nelson is a poet and professor and contemplative, an excavator of stories that woul...
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Pádraig Ó Tuama and Marilyn Nelson — A New Imagination of Prayer from 2020-01-30T17:04:40
Pádraig Ó Tuama and Marilyn Nelson are beloved teachers to many; to bring them together was a delight and a balm. Nelson is a poet and professor and contemplative, an excavator of stories that w...
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Introducing ‘Poetry Unbound’ from 2020-01-30T17:03:52
We’re excited to share the first episode of our new podcast, Poetry Unbound. It’s your new ritual: Immerse yourself in a single po...
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[Unedited] Alison Gopnik with Krista Tippett from 2020-01-23T16:15:11
Alison Gopnik understands babies and children as the R&D division of humanity. From her cognitive science lab at the University of California, -Berkeley, she investigates the “evolutionary parad...
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[Unedited] Alison Gopnik with Krista Tippett from 2020-01-23T16:15:11
Alison Gopnik understands babies and children as the R&D division of humanity. From her cognitive science lab at the University of California, -Berkeley, she investigates the “evolutionary paradox”...
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[Unedited] Ruby Sales with Krista Tippett from 2020-01-16T20:35:10
Civil rights legend Ruby Sales learned to ask “Where does it hurt?” because it’s a question that drives to the heart of the matter — and a question we scarcely know how to ask in public life now...
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[Unedited] Ruby Sales with Krista Tippett from 2020-01-16T20:35:10
Civil rights legend Ruby Sales learned to ask “Where does it hurt?” because it’s a question that drives to the heart of the matter — and a question we scarcely know how to ask in public life now. S...
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Bessel van der Kolk — How Trauma Lodges in the Body from 2019-12-26T16:15:02
Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk is an innovator in treating the effects of overwhelming experiences. We call this “trauma” when we encounter it in life and news, and we tend to leap to address ...
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[Unedited] Greg Boyle with Krista Tippett from 2019-12-19T17:15:06
Fr. Greg Boyle makes amazingly winsome connections between things like service and delight, compassion and awe. He landed as an idealistic young Jesuit in a gang-heavy neighborhood of Los Angele...
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[Unedited] Greg Boyle with Krista Tippett from 2019-12-19T17:15:06
Fr. Greg Boyle makes amazingly winsome connections between things like service and delight, compassion and awe. He landed as an idealistic young Jesuit in a gang-heavy neighborhood of Los Angeles t...
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[Unedited] David Whyte with Krista Tippett from 2019-12-12T16:00:13
“Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet / confinement of your aloneness / to learn / anything or anyone / that does not bring you alive / is too small for you.” David Whyte is a poet and philoso...
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"Ame?rica" (parts IV-V) by Richard Blanco from 2019-11-27T20:40:37
Richard Blanco reads parts IV and V from his poem “América”. Excerpted from the On Being episode “Richard Blanco – How to Love a Country”.
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[Unedited] Marilynne Robinson and Marcelo Gleiser with Krista Tippett from 2019-11-21T19:00:04
Novelist Marilynne Robinson and physicist Marcelo Gleiser are both passionate about the majesty of science, and they share a caution about what they call our modern “piety” toward science. They ...
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[Unedited] Marilynne Robinson and Marcelo Gleiser with Krista Tippett from 2019-11-21T19:00:04
Novelist Marilynne Robinson and physicist Marcelo Gleiser are both passionate about the majesty of science, and they share a caution about what they call our modern “piety” toward science. They con...
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Robert Macfarlane — The Hidden Human Depths of the Underland from 2019-11-14T20:00:07
Robert Macfarlane is an explorer and linguist of landscape. His newest book, Underland: A Deep Time Journey, is an odyssey that’s full of surprises — from caves and catacombs under land, under citi...
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[Unedited] America Ferrera and John Paul Lederach with Krista Tippett from 2019-10-24T17:25:07
“Our discomfort and our grappling is not a sign of failure,” America Ferrera says, “it’s a sign that we’re living at the edge of our imaginations.” She is a culture-shifting actor and artist. Jo...
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[Unedited] America Ferrera and John Paul Lederach with Krista Tippett from 2019-10-24T17:25:07
“Our discomfort and our grappling is not a sign of failure,” America Ferrera says, “it’s a sign that we’re living at the edge of our imaginations.” She is a culture-shifting actor and artist. John ...
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[Unedited] Jennifer Bailey and Lennon Flowers with Krista Tippett from 2019-10-17T16:54:10
Lennon Flowers and Rev. Jennifer Bailey embody a particular wisdom of millennials around grief, loss, and faith. Together they created The People’s Supper...
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[Unedited] Jennifer Bailey and Lennon Flowers with Krista Tippett from 2019-10-17T16:54:10
Lennon Flowers and Rev. Jennifer Bailey embody a particular wisdom of millennials around grief, loss, and faith. Together they created The People’s Supper, which uses shared meals to build trust an...
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[Unedited] David Treuer with Krista Tippett from 2019-10-10T19:25
Writer David Treuer’s work tells a story that is richer and more multi-dimensional than the American history most of us learned in school. Treuer grew up on the Leech Lake Reservation in norther...
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[Unedited] David Treuer with Krista Tippett from 2019-10-10T19:25
Writer David Treuer’s work tells a story that is richer and more multi-dimensional than the American history most of us learned in school. Treuer grew up on the Leech Lake Reservation in northern M...
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[Unedited] Imani Perry with Krista Tippett - 2019 from 2019-09-26T19:46:57
James Baldwin said, “American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.” Imani Perry embodies that prism. For the pa...
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[Unedited] Imani Perry with Krista Tippett - 2019 from 2019-09-26T19:46:57
James Baldwin said, “American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.” Imani Perry embodies that prism. For the past ...
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[Unedited] Erik Vance with Krista Tippett from 2019-09-19T20:15:20
Science writer and reporter Erik Vance says today’s brain scientists are like astronomers of old: They’ve unsettled humanity’s sense of itself by redrawing our picture of the cosmos within our o...
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[Unedited] Erik Vance with Krista Tippett from 2019-09-19T20:15:20
Science writer and reporter Erik Vance says today’s brain scientists are like astronomers of old: They’ve unsettled humanity’s sense of itself by redrawing our picture of the cosmos within our own ...
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[Unedited] Ta-Nehisi Coates with Krista Tippett from 2019-09-12T19:04:31
Ta-Nehisi Coates says we must love our country the way we love our friends — and not spare the hard truths. “Can you get to a place where citizens are encouraged to see themselves critically, wh...
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[Unedited] Ta-Nehisi Coates with Krista Tippett from 2019-09-12T19:04:31
Ta-Nehisi Coates says we must love our country the way we love our friends — and not spare the hard truths. “Can you get to a place where citizens are encouraged to see themselves critically, where...
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[Unedited] Katy Payne with Krista Tippett from 2019-08-22T12:00:08
We were made and set here, the writer Annie Dillard once wrote, “to give voice to our astonishments.” Katy Payne is a renowned acoustic biologist with a Quaker sensibility. She’s found her aston...
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[Unedited] Katy Payne with Krista Tippett from 2019-08-22T12:00:08
We were made and set here, the writer Annie Dillard once wrote, “to give voice to our astonishments.” Katy Payne is a renowned acoustic biologist with a Quaker sensibility. She’s found her astonish...
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[Unedited] Shane Claiborne and Omar Saif Ghobash with Krista Tippett from 2019-08-15T18:35:14
Spiritual border-crossing and social creativity were themes in a conversation between Shane Claiborne and Omar Saif Ghobash, two people who have lived with some discomfort within the religious g...
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[Unedited] Shane Claiborne and Omar Saif Ghobash with Krista Tippett from 2019-08-15T18:35:14
Spiritual border-crossing and social creativity were themes in a conversation between Shane Claiborne and Omar Saif Ghobash, two people who have lived with some discomfort within the religious grou...
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[Unedited] Jonathan Rowson with Krista Tippett from 2019-07-18T21:35
Applied philosopher Jonathan Rowson insists on holding a deeper appreciation for how our inner worlds influence our outer worlds. His research organization, Perspectiva, examines how social change ...
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[Unedited] Jonathan Rowson with Krista Tippett from 2019-07-18T21:35
Applied philosopher Jonathan Rowson insists on holding a deeper appreciation for how our inner worlds influence our outer worlds. His research organization, Perspectiva, examines how social change ...
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Indigo Girls — No Separation: On Music and Transcendence from 2019-06-27T20:27
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[Unedited] Amy Ray and Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls with Krista Tippett from 2019-06-27T20:27
The folk-rock duo Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have been making music for over 25 years. They’re known for their social activism on-stage and off, but long before they became the Indigo Girls, they we...
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[Unedited] Jerry Colonna with Krista Tippett from 2019-06-20T19:56:53
We still work with the old idea that we should check the messy parts of ourselves at the door of our professional lives. But Jerry Colonna says doing so cuts us off from the source of our creativit...
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Abraham Verghese and Denise Pope — How Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up? from 2019-05-23T18:47:37
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[Unedited] Denise Pope and Abraham Verghese with Krista Tippett from 2019-05-23T18:47:37
Today young people are trying to balance the question of “What do I want to do when I grow up?” with the question of “Who and how do I want to be in the world?” Physician and writer Abraham Verghes...
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Rami Nashashibi and Lucas Johnson — Community Organizing as a Spiritual Practice from 2019-05-16T20:00:04
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[Unedited] Rami Nashashibi and Lucas Johnson with Krista Tippett from 2019-05-16T20:00:04
Community organizers Rami Nashashibi and Lucas Johnson have much to teach us about using love — the most reliable muscle of human transformation — as a practical public good. Nashashibi is the foun...
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[Unedited] Joanna Macy with Krista Tippett from 2019-04-25T15:55
A Buddhist philosopher of ecology, Joanna Macy says we are at a pivotal moment in history with the possibility to unravel or create a life-sustaining human society. Now entering her 90s, Macy has l...
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Wangari Maathai — Marching with Trees from 2019-04-18T06:24
The late Wangari Maathai was a biologist, environmentalist, and the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize. She was born under British colonial occupation and schooled by Catholic missionar...
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[Unedited] Pádraig Ó Tuama with Krista Tippett from 2019-04-11T17:36:21
Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet, theologian, and extraordinary healer in our world of fracture. He leads the Corrymeela community of Northern Ireland, a place that has offered refuge since the violent di...
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‘Becoming Wise’ With Tools for the Art of Living from 2019-03-28T17:12:28
[Unedited] Sharon Olds with Krista Tippett from 2019-03-14T19:45:10
When the wise and whimsical Sharon Olds started writing poetry over 40 years ago, she explored the subjects that interested her most — like diaphragms. “The politeness and the prudity of the world ...
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Daniel Kahneman — Why We Contradict Ourselves and Confound Each Other from 2019-01-31T17:23:12
With his book “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” Daniel Kahneman emerged as one of the most intriguing voices on the complexity of human thought and behavior. He is a psychologist who won the Nobel Prize i...
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Claudia Rankine — How Can I Say This So We Can Stay in This Car Together? from 2019-01-10T21:34
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Walter Brueggemann — The Prophetic Imagination from 2018-12-20T15:19
The great scholar and preacher. “The task is reframing so that we can re-experience the social realities that are right in front of us, from a different angle.” Prophets are also always poets. “A s...
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