Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett of APM
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| Title | Podcast Description | Author/Reader | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listening Generously (July 29, 2010) | Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen's lifelong struggle with a debilitating illness has shaped the way she practices medicine, and her views about illness and well being. She speaks about the art of listening to patients, the difference between curing and healing, and how our losses actually help us to live. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| A Voice for the Animals (July 22, 2010) | A stutter as a child left Alan Rabinowitz unable to communicate and to prefer animals to people. He made his name as a wildlife biologist and explorer. We shares his insights into the animal-human bond; and the odyssey that led him to rediscover "the human side of things". | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| The Ethics of Eating (July 15, 2010) | Barbara Kingsolver describes how her family spent a year eating primarily what they could grow or raise themselves. Food, she says, is a "rare moral arena" in which the ethical choice is often the pleasurable choice. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| The Art of Peace (July 8, 2010) | John Paul Lederach describes what really happens when people transcend violence while living in it, and so find the moral imagination to live beyond it. Also, stories you've never heard in the news - from Colombia, Nepal, Tajikistan, Sierra Leone, Northern Ireland, and Burma. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| A Monastic Revolution (July 1, 2010) | Shane Claiborne and his community, The Simple Way, are taking on the gap between the churches they were raised in and in what they perceive as the essence of Christianity. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Holding Life Consciously (June 24, 2010) | Arthur Zajonc sees contemplation as investigating life from the inside - and now it is teaching him about living with Parkinson's disease. We hear how this physicist draws on the humanities and meditation to integrate the intellectual and sensory aspects of life. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| The Spirituality of Parenting (June 17, 2010) | More and more people in our time are disconnected from religious institutions, or find themselves creating a family with a spouse from another tradition. We sense that there is a spiritual aspect to our children's natures and wonder how to support and nurture that. Our guest, Rabbi Sandy Sasso, illuminates the problem. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Land, Life, and the Poetry of Creatures (June 3, 2010) | Biblical scholar Ellen Davis has a new view of human domination of the Earth and its creatures. With her friend, the farmer and poet Wendell Berry, they speak to our collective grief at destruction of the natural world. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Rural Studio and an Architecture of Decency (June 3, 2010) | Auburn's Rural Studio in western Alabama draws architectural students into the design and construction of homes and public spaces in some of the poorest counties. They're creating beautiful and economical structures that are not only unique but nurture sustainability of the natural world. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| The Body's Grace, Matthew Sanford's Story (May 27, 2010) | Matthew Sanford's body was permanently altered in a car accident at the age of 13. It killed his father and sister and he's spent the last quarter century in a wheelchair. We explore what he's learned about the grace of the human body even through trauma and aging. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| New Mysteries of an Expanding Universe (May 20, 2010) | Astrophysicist Mario Livio works with the Hubble Telescope's findings on phenomena like dark energy and white dwarfs. We explore edges of discovery where scientific advance meets recurrent mystery - questions richer than any of their current answers. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Being Autistic, Being Human (May 13, 2010) | We reflect on the mystery and meaning of autism. Jennifer Elder and Paul Collins, a painter and a literary historian, are the parents of an 10-year-old son, Morgan, who has autism. In life and writing, they've explored autism in historical, medical, and literary perspective. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Preserving Words and Worlds (May 6, 2010) | We travel to a monastic library that rescues manuscripts from across the centuries and across the world. We talk with Fr. Columba Stewart, a Benedictine monk and its executive director, and Getachew Haile, an Ethiopian scholar who has led some of its most intriguing work. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Desmond Tutu's God of Surprises (April 29, 2010) | Desmond Tutu helped galvanize South Africa's peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy. Yet inequality and violence still mark the country. He discusses these topics and how his understanding of God has unfolded through the history he's helped shape. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Alzheimer's, Memory, and Being (April 22, 2010) | Psychologist Alan Dienstag has led support groups and a writing group for people in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. We explore the human and spiritual terrain of this illness, what it might teach about the nature of human memory and identity, and what remains when memory unravels. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Laying the Dead to Rest (April 15, 2010) | Mercedes Doretti is an Argentinean forensic anthropologist who has unearthed bones and stories of dead and disappeared civilians from Argentina's Dirty War. She shares her perspective on reparation, the need to bury our dead, and the many facets of justice. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| China's Hidden Spiritual Landscape (April 8, 2010) | With scholar and filmmaker Mayfair Yang, we learn about the ancient traditions of reverence and ritual - revealing background to China's approach to Tibet. And, we explore the irony that the Chinese state gleaned some of its dismissive, modern ideas about religion from the West. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:08 |
| Two Vatican Astronomers (April 1, 2010) | We explore life, faith, and the universe with two Vatican astronomers. Brother Guy Consolmagno and Father George Coyne are both Jesuits, and both have asteroids named after them. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:08 |
| Getting Revenge and Forgiveness (March 25, 2010) | Michael McCullough describes science that helps us comprehend how revenge came to have a purpose in human life. Here, he suggests ways to calm the revenge instinct and embolden forgiveness in ourselves. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:08 |
| Heart and Soul with Mehmet Oz (March 18, 2010) | Historically, Western medicine has stressed medical treatments of biological ailments. That may be changing - cardiovascular surgeon Mehmet Oz, is one of a new generation who are taking medicine to new frontiers. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:08 |
| Mathematics, Purpose, Truth (March 11, 2010) | As a theoretical physicist, Janna Levin probes whether the universe is finite or infinite. As a novelist, she explored the lives of two influential scientists: Kurt Godel and Alan Turing. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:08 |
| The Evolution of God (March 4, 2010) | Robert Wright's book, "The Evolution of God," charts a path beyond the faith versus reason debate. In this public conversation we explore the story he tells, the import he sees in it for our culture, and where it has taken him. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:08 |
| Einstein's God (February 25, 2010) | Albert Einstein pondered the relationship between science and religion and his sense of "the order deeply hidden behind everything." With guests Freeman Dyson and Paul Davies we explore Einstein's wisdom on mystery, eternity, and the mind of God. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:08 |
| No More Taking Sides (February 18, 2010) | Robi Damelin and Ali Abu Awwad lost close relatives in the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. Instead of choosing violence, they've decided to understand the other side by sharing their pain and their humanity. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:08 |
| Black & Universal (February 11, 2010) | E. Ethelbert Miller is a poet at Howard University. We'll explore his poetry and the works of others including Malcolm X, Charles Johnson, Lucille Clifton, and John Coltrane. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Living Vodou (February 4, 2010) | We speak with Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, a scholar and Vodou priest who sheds light on the history, culture, and inner life of the Haitian people. And, we explore the metaphysical world of Vodou, the religion of Haiti with ancient roots in Africa. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| A Different Kind of Capitalism (January 28, 2010) | The devastation in Haiti have deepened the debate over foreign aid, international development, and helping the poorest of the world's poor. Jacqueline Novogratz, whose Acumen Fund has a new approach, speaks with Krista. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Whale Songs and Elephant Loves (January 21, 2010) | Trained as a musician, acoustic biologist Katy Payne discovered that humpback whales compose songs to communicate, and that elephants communicate with one another across long distances by infrasound. We hear what she has learned about life in this world. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Reflections of a Former Islamist Extremist (January 14, 2010) | As the news is once again full of flight safety concerns, we revisit Krista's interview with a former extremist who says the West fails to understand the true long term threat, a mindset that has made him and others susceptible to radicalization. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| The Meaning of Intelligence (January 7, 2010) | An expansive reflection on the meaning of intelligence with author and educator Mike Rose. We explore his perspective on hard subjects that drive to the heart of who we are - literacy, schooling, social class, and the deepest meaning of vocation. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Approaching Prayer (December 31, 2008) | Americans are religious and non-religious, devout and irreverent. But in astonishing numbers, across that spectrum, most of us say that we pray. We open up the subject of prayer and explore how it sounds and what it means in three different traditions and lives - with Anoushka Shankar, Stephen Mitchell, and Roberta Bondi. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:09 |
| The Wisdom of Tenderness (December 24, 2009) | For the Holidays, a conversation with one of the wise men in our world today - Jean Vanier, who created a model of community, L'Arche, that embodies the ideal of power in smallness and light in the darkness of human existence. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Tatanka Iyotake, Reimagining Sitting Bull (December 17, 2009) | We pull out some of the lesser known threads of the legacy of this complex leader and American icon. Hear why his spiritual character has animated his own people in the last three decades - more openly than at any time since his death in 1890. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| The Moral Math of Climate Change (December 3, 2009) | A conversation about climate change and moral imagination with environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben. He's been ahead of the curve on this complex issue since he wrote "The End of Nature" in 1989. We explore his evolving perspective on human responsibility in a changing natural world. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| The Spiritual Audacity of Abraham Joshua Heschel (December 3, 2009) | Heschel insisted that the opposite of good is not evil, but indifference. He was a mystic who wrote transcendent, poetic words about God, marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and organized religious leadership against the war in Vietnam. We explore his teachings and prophetic legacy - his "spiritual audacity" - for people in our time. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Presence in the Wild (November 26, 2009) | Kate Braestrup, a Unitarian-Universalist minister and author, is called in when children disappear in the woods or snowmobilers disappear under the ice. She calls herself a doer whose sense of God emerges from what happens among people. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Learning, Doing, Being - A New Science of Education (November 19, 2009) | Neuroscientist Adele Diamond helps unfold knowledge of the brain in the educational system, and challenges modern notions about education and life. Activities like reflection and play, music and sports, it turns out, not only nourish the many aspects of human spirit and personality, but also hone our minds. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| The "Happiest" Man in the World - Matthieu Ricard (November 12, 2009) | A renowned Buddhist teacher and author, Matthieu Ricard has been called "the happiest man in the world." How he understands spirituality as "contemplative science." | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| The Fall of the Wall, JFK's Assassination, and Two Birthdays | In the 1980's, Krista worked as a journalist and diplomat in East Germany and divided Berlin. She reflects on the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years later - an event that continued a connection between historic happenings and a more personal occasion - her birthday. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:04:53 |
| The Freelance Monotheism of Karen Armstrong (November 5, 2009) | Karen Armstrong speaks about her progression from a disillusioned and damaged young nun into, in her words, a "freelance monotheist." | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Stem Cells, Untold Stories (October 29, 2009) | Using stem cells, Doris Taylor brought the heart of a dead animal back to life and might one day revolutionize human organ transplantation. She takes us beyond lightning rod issues to a frontier where science is learning how stem cells work to reparair every body at every age. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Jaraslov Pelikan and The Need for Creeds (October 15, 2009) | For many, reciting a centuries old creed is troublesome. Jaroslav Pelikan, who devoted his life to studying ancient theology, insisted that even modern pluralists need strong statements of belief. In this, Krista's 2003 conversation with him, they discuss the history and nature of creeds, and how a fixed creed can be reconciled with an honest, intellectual faith that can change. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Curiosity Over Assumptions - Interreligiosity Meets a New Generation (October 15, 2009) | We shine a light on two young leaders of a new generation of grassroots Muslim-Jewish encounter in Los Angeles. They have a practical relationship that works with reality and acknowledges conflict, yet resolve not to be enemies - whatever the future of the Middle East may be. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| The Power of Eckhart Tolle's Now (October 8, 2009) | One of today's most influential spiritual teachers shares his youthful experience of depression and despair - suffering that led him to his own spiritual breakthrough, and ultimately, freedom and peace of mind. He also explicates his view of what he calls "the pain body" - the accumulated emotional pain that may influence us negatively in our relationships. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Language and Meaning - an Ojibwe Story (October 1, 2009) | Novelist and translator David Treuer is helping to compile the first practical grammar of the Ojibwe language. He describes an unfolding experience of how language forms what makes us human. Some memories and realities, he has found, can only be carried forward in time by Ojibwe. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Living Islam (September 24, 2009) | Nine Muslims reveal an evolving convergence of Islamic spirituality and American identity in the United States. A lawyer turned playwright, a teacher who's a lesbian, a retired federal prosecutor - all share how tricky it can be to unravel Islamic religious tradition from the many cultural traditions. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| The Inner Landscape of Beauty (September 17, 2009) | The Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue was beloved for his book Anam Cara, and for his insistence on beauty as a human calling and a defining aspect of God. In one of his last interviews, he articulated a Celtic imagination about how the material and the spiritual, the visible and the invisible worlds intertwine in human experience. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Revealing Ramadan - The Radio Hour (September 10, 2009) | 14 Muslims speak about the delights and gravity of Islam's holiest month. They reveal the richness of Ramadan - as a period of intimacy, and of parties; of getting up when the world is quiet for breakfast and prayers with one's family; of breaking the fast every day after nightfall in celebration and prayers with friends and strangers. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Yoga. Meditation in Action (September 3, 2009) | Yoga studios are cropping up across the U.S. at YMCAs, law schools, and corporate headquarters. This 5000-year-old spiritual technology is converging with 21st-century medical science and many religious and philosophical perspectives. Seane Corn takes us inside the practice of yoga, and tells how it helps her face the world. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| The Ethics of Aid: One Kenyan's Perspective (August 27, 2009) | We explore the complex ethics of global aid with a young writer from Kenya, Binyavanga Wainaina. He is among a rising generation of African voices who bring a cautionary perspective to the morality and efficacy behind many Western initiatives for Africa. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| The Novelist as God (August 20, 2009) | Mary Doria Russell has grappled with large moral and religious questions on and off the page. We discover what she discerned, in the act of creating a new universe, about God and about dilemmas of evil, doubt, and free will. The ultimate moral of any life and any event, she believes, only shows itself across generations. And so the novelist, like God, she says, paints with the brush of time. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Obama's Theologian: David Brooks and E.J. Dionne (August 13, 2009) | President Obama has cited Reinhold Niebuhr's teachings as significant in shaping his ideas about politics and governance. In a public conversation, we discuss the great public theologian's legacy and ideas - and what influence they may play in the future of American politics. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Fishing with Mystery (August 6, 2009) | James Prosek is an artist, fly-fisher, author, and environmental activist who has always, found God "through the theater of nature." From a young age he has been fascinated by trout and now eel, which he sees as "mystical creatures" and he's captured them literally and artistically, by way of angling and paint. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Wise Voices from Religion, Science, Industry and the Arts (July 30, 2009) | Last fall we conducted an online conversation on economic scenarios. Our personal scenarios confront us with core questions of what matters to us and what sustains us. We made a list of our former guests who we thought could speak to this. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Economic Crisis, Morality, and Meaning (July 23, 2009) | We explore human and spiritual aspects of economic downturn with a wise public intellectual of our time, the Quaker author and educator Parker Palmer. He works with people from all walks of life at the intersection of spiritual, professional, and social change, and stresses the need to acknowledge the inner life of human beings as a source of reality and power. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| TV and Parables of Our Time (July 16, 2009) | Diane Winston appreciates good television, studies it, and brings many of its creators into her religion and media classes at the University of Southern California. In what some have called a renaissance in television drama, we examine how TV is helping us tell our story and work through great confusions in contemporary life. And, we play clips from "The Wire," "House," "Lost," and "Battlestar Galactica". | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| The Science of Trust: Economics and Virtue (July 9, 2009) | In a few short months, we've gone from seeing Wall Street as an icon of a thriving society to portrayals in such books as "House of Cards" and "Animal Spirits." Today, we'll talk to pioneering neuroeconomist Paul Zak to see what science is learning about trust, fair play, and empathy - and their implications for economics. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Play, Spirit, and Character (July 2, 2009) | Stuart Brown, physician and director of the National Institute for Play, says that pleasurable, purposeless activity prevents violence and promotes trust, empathy, and adaptability to life's complexities. He promotes cutting-edge science on human play, drawing from study of intelligent social animals. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Fragility and the Evolution of Our Humanity - A Geophysicist's View (June 25, 2009) | Xavier Le Pichon has been part of revolutionary advances in our understanding of how the Earth works. He also spent decades living in community with people and families facing disabilities. He has emerged with a rare perspective on the meaning of humanity - a perspective equally informed by his scientific and personal encounters with fragility as a fundament of vital, evolving systems. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Joe Carter and the Legacy of the African-American Spiritual (June 18, 2009) | The spiritual is celebrated in American culture and beyond. It is the source from which gospel, jazz, blues, and hip-hop evolved. It was born in the American South, created by slaves, bards whose names history never recorded. We celebrate the life of Joe Carter, who explored the meaning of the Negro spiritual in word and song; through its hidden meanings, as well as its beauty, lament, and hope. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Ellen Williams on Focusing on Love, Family, and Being | Ellen Williams, a retired lay pastoral associate from Richmond, Virginia, submitted an essay about her reflections on the moral and spiritual aspects of the economic crisis. She experienced a health crisis at the same time. She looks to the words of other writers from various fields to understand and connect disparate events so we can learn to love one another. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:22:37 |
| The Long Shadow of Torture (June 11, 2009) | Iranian-American political scientist Darius Rejali is one of the world's leading experts on torture, and in particular on how democracies change torture and are changed by it. We'll explore how his knowledge might deepen public discourse about practices in U.S. military prisons in recent years -- and inform our collective reckoning with consequences yet to unfold. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Lia Hadley on New Paradigms of Community | Lia Hadley has lived in Lubeck, Germany for more than 20 years now, and has personally been affected by the IT bust nearly 10 years ago now. She submitted an essay about her reflections on the moral and spiritual aspects of the economic crisis. Through her experiences as an computer technologist who needs to find new contracts regularly, she has had to reevaluate the meaning of trust and also finds new ways of forming local community in her village and through virtual socially-based programs to improve the lives of women in other villages around the globe. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:19:38 |
| Brother Thay: A Radio Pilgrimage with Thich Nhat Hanh (June 4, 2009) | Forcibly exiled from his native country, Zen master and poet Thich Nhat Hanh recently visited Vietnam for the first time in nearly 40 years. In 2003, Speaking of Faith took a radio pilgrimage with the Buddhist monk at a Christian conference center in a lakeside setting of rural Wisconsin. Thich Nhat Hanh offers stark, gentle wisdom for living in a world of anger and violence. Here, he discusses the concepts of "engaged Buddhism," "being peace," and "mindfulness." | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Marc Mullinax on Fasting and "Holy Interruptions" | Marc Mullinax, a professor of Religion and Philosophy at Mars Hill College in North Carolina, submitted an essay about her reflections on the moral and spiritual aspects of the economic crisis. Through the season of Lent and the instruction of his students, he has found ways to live a more sustainable life and be more conscientious of the community around him during these difficult fiscal times and into a new era of the next American dream. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:21:54 |
| Obama's Faith-Based Office - Meeting Joshua DuBois (May 28, 2009) | A live public conversation with Joshua DuBois -- the 26 year-old political strategist and Pentecostal Minister who is heading the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships in the Obama White House. We'll explore what is being retained from the Bush years, what will change -- and how the experience of the Obama campaign shaped Joshua DuBois' vision of what is possible. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Emily Muschinske on Comedy as Spiritual Renewal | Emily Muschinske, a graphic designer and illustrator of children's books who was recently laid off while working in New York City, submitted an essay about her reflections on the moral and spiritual aspects of the economic crisis. She has become more skeptical of terms such as family, loyalty, and trust when used in corporate settings and discusses how comedy is one of the best ways of coping with this economic crisis. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:21:23 |
| The Sunni-Shia Divide and the Future of Islam (May 21, 2009) | We seek fresh insight into the history and the human and religious dynamics of Islam's Sunni-Shia divide. Our guest Vali Nasr says that it is not so different from dynamics in periods of Western Christian history. But he says that by bringing the majority Shia to power in Iraq, the U.S. has changed the religious dynamics of the Middle East. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Abeer Razi on Remembering What's Important | Abeer Raazi, a recent college graduate in Economics, submitted an essay on his reflections on the moral and spiritual aspects of the economic crisis. He questions the discipline of society and of economics and looks to roots in Islam, family, and community to live an important life filled with meaning and purpose. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:17:58 |
| The Long Shadow of Torture (June 11, 2009) | Iranian-American political scientist Darius Rejali is one of the world's leading experts on torture, in particular how democracies change torture and are changed by it. We'll explore how his knowledge might deepen public discourse about practices in U.S. military prisons in recent years - and the consequences yet to unfold. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Lia Hadley on New Paradigms of Community | Lia Hadley has lived in Lubeck, Germany for more than 20 years, and has been affected by the IT bust nearly 10 years. She submitted an essay about the moral and spiritual aspects of the economic crisis. Through her experiences as an computer technologist who needs to find new contracts regularly, she has had to reevaluate the meaning of trust and find new ways of forming local community in her village and to improve the lives of women around the globe. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:19:38 |
| Brother Thay: A Radio Pilgrimage with Thich Nhat Hanh (June 4, 2009) | Forcibly exiled from his native country, Zen master and poet Thich Nhat Hanh recently visited Vietnam for the first time in nearly 40 years. In 2003, we took a radio pilgrimage with the Buddhist monk at a Christian conference in rural Wisconsin. Thich Nhat Hanh offers stark, gentle wisdom for living in a world of anger and violence. Here, he discusses the concepts of "engaged Buddhism," "being peace," and "mindfulness." | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Marc Mullinax on Fasting and "Holy Interruptions" | Marc Mullinax, a professor of Religion and Philosophy at Mars Hill College in North Carolina, submitted an essay about his reflections on the moral and spiritual aspects of the economic crisis. Through the season of Lent and the instruction of his students, he has found ways to live a more sustainable life and be more conscious of the community around him during these difficult fiscal times. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:21:54 |
| Obama's Faith-Based Office - Meeting Joshua DuBois (May 28, 2009) | A live public conversation with Joshua DuBois, the 26 year-old political strategist and Pentecostal Minister who heads the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships in the Obama White House. We'll explore what is being retained from the Bush years, what will change, and how the experience of the Obama campaign shaped Joshua DuBois' vision of what's possible. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Emily Muschinske on Comedy as Spiritual Renewal | Emily Muschinske, an illustrator of children's books who was recently laid off, submitted an essay about her reflections on the moral and spiritual aspects of the economic crisis. She has become skeptical of terms such as family, loyalty, and trust when used in corporate settings and discusses how comedy is one of the best ways of coping. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:21:23 |
| The Sunni-Shia Divide and the Future of Islam (May 21, 2009) | We seek fresh insight into the history and the human and religious dynamics of Islam's Sunni-Shia divide. Our guest Vali Nasr says that it is not so different from dynamics in periods of Western Christian history. But he says that by bringing the majority Shia to power in Iraq, the U.S. has changed the religious dynamics of the Middle East. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Abeer Raazi on Remembering What's Important | Abeer Raazi, a student living in Columbus, Ohio, submitted an essay about his reflections on the moral and spiritual aspects of the economic crisis. He talks about his unease about the disconnect between his field of study, Economics, and social concerns; the wisdom he finds in his Islamic tradition; and the need for optimism and problem-solving in this new economic present. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:17:49 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Living Differently, Beyond Economic Crisis (May 14, 2009) | A new installment in our ongoing series, Repossessing Virtue, bringing the voices of our listeners into our on-line and on-air conversation since the economic downturn began. Many are grappling with the shame that comes with the loss of a job, and many are seeking community. For some, economic instability is not new. They've been cultivating virtues of patience, self-examination, service and good humor that might help us all. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:09 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Careen Stoll on Dreaming and Feeling Needed as a Potter | Careen Stoll, a potter in Portland, Oregon, submitted an essay about the moral and spiritual aspects of the economic crisis. She writes about the difficulty of competing with large retailers, the beauty of craftsmanship, and why a "dirty rebel" like her found solace in hearing President Obama's call for small artisans. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:19:16 |
| Planting the Future with Wangari Maathai (April 30, 2009) | A riveting Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Laureate, Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement - an organization that empowers African women to improve their lives and conserve the environment. She knows what many in the West have forgotten - ecological crises are often the hidden cause of war. She speaks of the balance of human and natural resources, and shares thoughts on where God resides. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:18 |
| The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi (April 23, 2009) | The 13th-century Muslim mystic and poet Rumi has long shaped Muslims around the world and has now become popular in the West. Rumi created a new language of love within the Islamic mystical tradition of Sufism. With our guest Fatemeh Keshavarz, we hear his poetry as we delve into his world and listen for its echoes in our own. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:18 |
| Opening to Our Lives - Jon Kabat-Zinn's Science of Mindfulness (April 16, 2009) | Scientist and author Jon Kabat-Zinn has changed medicine through his work on meditation and stress. We explore what he has learned, through science and experience, about mindfulness as a way of life. This is wisdom with immediate relevance to the ordinary and extreme stresses of our time -- from economic peril, to parenting, to life in a digital age. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:27 |
| Restoring the Senses: Life, Gardening, and an Orthodox Easter (April 9, 2009) | Theologian Vigen Guroian experiences Easter as "a call to our senses." We'll explore his Eastern Orthodox sensibility that is at once more mystical and more earthy than the Christianity dominant in Western culture. And at this time of year and beyond, Guroian does real theology in his garden as richly as in church. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:19 |
| Exodus, Cargo of Hidden Stories (April 2, 2009) | Avivah Zornberg is one of the great, creative interpreters of Talmud and Torah in the contemporary world. She guides us through the Exodus story that is remembered at Passover, and that has inspired oppressed peoples in many cultures across history. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:22 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Khalid Kamau on Gaining Time and Community in the Black Church | Khalid Kamau, a financial analyst who was recently laid off, submitted an essay about his reflections on the moral and spiritual aspects of the economic crisis. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:09:02 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Marie Howe on Greater Simplicity and Laura Ingalls Wilder | The poet Marie Howe relates personal stories of ambition and reflection, and a surprising reference to Laura Ingalls Wilder's "The Long Winter." With her daughter, she's been reading Wilder's writings about the frontier and survival as a source of inspiration and wisdom that puts into perspective her own place in these tumultuous economic times. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:09:02 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Anita Barrows on Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary | Poet and psychologist Anita Barrows first appeared in our program, "The Soul in Depression." She sees the moral challenges of these economic times as an opportunity to come to terms with change in a healthy sense. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:09:02 |
| The Biology of the Spirit (March 12, 2009) | Former surgeon Sherwin Nuland reflects on the meaning of life by way of scrupulous and elegant detail about human physiology. He speaks about his sense of wonder at the body's capacity to sustain life and support our pursuits of order and meaning, and why he believes the human spirit is an evolutionary accomplishment of the brain. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:17 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Vigen Guroian on a Crisis of Imagination | Vigen Guroian, an Orthodox Christian theologian, sees the value of this pivotal moment in history through the lens of great literature, the coming of spring and the Lenten season, and the wisdom of beekeeping. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:09:02 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Wise Voices from Religion, Science, Industry, and the Arts (March 5, 2009) | The second program in our ongoing series on moral and spiritual aspects of living in and beyond economic crisis, this time with wise voices from religion, science, industry, and the arts - including Rachel Naomi Remen, Prabhu Guptara, Sharon Salzberg, Martin Marty, Esther Sternberg, Anchee Min, Majora Carter, and Vigen Guroian. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:19 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Nathan Dungan on the Moral Failure of Protecting Children and Ourselves | Financial advisor Nathan Dungan sees the global financial collapse as something that was architected. And, he argues, these values of consumption and materialism are instilled early on in children through marketing and family behavior. He finds culpability in all of us and says that we need to return to the strong sense of thrift and service that built the United States. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:09:02 |
| The Soul in Depression (February 26, 2009) | As a society, we're increasingly aware of the many faces of depression, and we've become conversant in the language of psychological analysis of depression and medical treatment for it. But there is a growing body of literature by people who have struggled with depression and found it to be a lesson in the nature of the human soul. In this program you'll hear intimate conversations with author Andrew Solomon, Quaker activist and educator Parker Palmer, and poet and psychologist Anita Barrows on their lived and spiritually edifying experiences with depression. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:19 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Katie Ford on Poetry, Katrina, and Wasting One's Life | Poet Katie Ford lived through the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina, and the financial and social crisis that ensues. For her, this economic crisis is an opportunity to reevaluate what's truly worthy of trust and faith. And, she says, it's the poetry of James Wright, a man who lived through the Great Depression that helps her put the current economic climate in perspective. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:08:44 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Majora Carter on Being More Deliberately Joyful | Activist Majora Carter says she doesn't think of her work at Sustainable South Bronx as a moral endeavor, but a pragmatic one. Nevertheless she looks on this period of economic tumult as a chance for being happy and passing that on to others. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:08:44 |
| Obama's Theologian: David Brooks and E.J. Dionne on Reinhold Niebuhr and the American Present (February 12, 2009) | President Obama has cited Reinhold Niebuhr's teachings as significant in shaping his own ideas about politics and governance. In a public conversation, Krista Tippet interviews conservative columnist David Brooks and liberal columnist E.J. Dionne about the great public theologian's legacy and ideas -- and what role they may play in the future of American politics. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:15 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Anchee Min on Repairing the American Individual | Novelist Anchee Min grew up during the Cultural Revolution in Mao's China. Living in the United States for several decades, she offers a challenging assessment of American reactions to these times based on her harsher experiences. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:08:44 |
| Evolution and Wonder: Understanding Charles Darwin (February 5, 2009) | As the bicentennial of Darwin's birth is celebrated, we seek to understand the world that formed him, and what his observations about the natural world really said about God. Darwin took religion seriously, but he understood creation as an unfolding process. He rejected the Victorian idea of a God who had fixed every detail -- including every social flaw and injustice -- at the beginning of time. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:15 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Sharon Salzberg on the Humiliation of Suffering | The Buddhist teacher and author Sharon Salzberg reflects on our current culture and its inability to acknowledge the inevitability of suffering. We hide from it, and hide it from others. She argues that we need not fear this, but look to others for compassion and wisdom and generosity as well as being touch with ourselves. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:51:31 |
| The Novelist as God (January 29, 2009) | Mary Doria Russell has grappled with large moral and religious questions on and off the page. We discover what she discerned -- in the act of creating a new universe -- about God and about dilemmas of evil, doubt, and free will. The ultimate moral of any life and any event, she believes, only shows itself across generations. And so the novelist, like God, she says, paints with the brush of time. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:16 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Greg Epstein on Human Solutions and Not Divine Ones | The Harvard Humanist chaplain Greg Epstein finds that these economic times have prompted him to think about community and activism differently. He finds humanists and atheists are learning to define themselves in terms of activism and outreach rather than just protesting the religious faithful. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:51:31 |
| The Buddha in the World (January 22, 2009) | A few years ago, journalist Pankaj Mishra pursued the social relevance of the Buddha's thought across India and Europe, Afganistan and America. He emerged with a startling critique of Western political economy that is even more resonant at present. Mishra is the author of "An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World," and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, and The Guardian. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:18 |
| Repossessing Virtue: David Hilfiker on Strengthening and Liberating the Poor | SOF First Person continues its series on the economic downturn with Dr. David Hilfiker, who gives insight into the issue of poverty and its modern history. Hilfiker discusses how poverty is as much of an issue now as it ever has been, and how the current economic situation might provide an opportunity to renew a social contract between the affluent and the needy. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:51:31 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Esther Sternberg on the Economic Crisis in Biological Terms | SOF First Person continues its series on the economic downturn with Dr. Esther Sternberg, a rheumatologist and stress researcher. She doesn't see the financial crisis in moral terms in so much as biological ones. She elaborates on these scientific points and then relates them on a personal level, often by looking inward and exposing the frailty of her own humanity. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:51:31 |
| A History of Doubt (January 8, 2009) | Poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht says that as a scholar she always noticed the "shadow history" of doubt out of the corner of her eye. She shows how non-belief, skepticism, and doubt have paralleled and at times shaped the world's great religious and secular belief systems. She suggests that only in modern time has doubt been narrowly equated with a complete rejection of faith, or a broader sense of mystery. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:05:14 |
| The Inner Lives of Children (January 1, 2009) | Psychiatrist Robert Coles has spent his career exploring the inner lives of children. He says children are witnesses to the fullness of our humanity; they are keenly attuned to the darkness as well as the light of life; and they can teach us about living honestly, searchingly and courageously if we let them. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:05:14 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Joan Chittister on Christmas | Our SOF First Person series continues with Benedictine nun and author Joan Chittister. She's been thinking and writing about Christmas, the prism through which economic crisis is coming home uncomfortably to many of us right now. The gold, frankincense, and myrrh of the kingly biblical gift-givers, she's learned, are not displays of wealth but of blessings of character -- generosity, serenity, and spirit. And her vow of stability takes on new meaning in tumultuous times. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:51:31 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Shane Claiborne on Opportunity for Renewed Community | Our SOF First Person series continues with Evangelical monastic Shane Claiborne, author of "Jesus for President." He sees the economic downturn as a chance to reacquaint ourselves with our local communities and our need for stewardship for those least able to help themselves. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:51:31 |
| Hanukkah and a Rediscovery of Jewish Customs (December 18, 2008) | For three centuries, medieval Jewish families used an illustrated guide, the Book of Customs, to navigate the Jewish year. Scott-Martin Kosofsky, a book designer and editor, decided to revise the "Book of Customs," adapting it for modern use in English. We'll hear what he learned about the ancient and evolving world of Jewish practice. Also, what he calls the "surprising" season of Hanukkah. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:26 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Rachel Naomi Remen and Economic Crisis as Spiritual Journey | Our SOF First Person series continues with physician Rachel Naomi Remen, author of "Kitchen Table Wisdom." She sees these fiscally hard times as an opportunity to find our way back to the largeness of our collective story, which is part of the spiritual path we are on as we ask ourselves questions during this economic crisis: What do I trust? What do I really need? | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:51:31 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Parker Palmer on Economic Crisis, Morality, and Meaning (December 11, 2008) | We explore human and spiritual aspects of economic downturn with a wise public intellectual of our time, the Quaker author and educator Parker Palmer. He works with people from all walks of life at the intersection of spiritual, professional, and social change, and stresses the need to acknowledge the inner life of human beings as a source of reality and power. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:52:56 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Prabhu Guptara on Applying Personal Moral Sense to One's Work Life | As promised, we continue our SOF First Person project by turning to Swiss banking expert, Prabhu Guptara. Several years ago, Krista spoke with Guptara when the fallout of the Enron scandal was wreaking havoc on the U.S. economy and shaking investor confidence in corporate practices and business fundamentals. His message was simple but challenging, and also quite liberating for much of our audience -- bring your personal values into the workplace. For Guptara, doing this is one of the best ways of making ethical decisions that will lead to moral integrity -- and less corruption and scandal. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:51:31 |
| The Ethics of Aid: One Kenyan's Perspective (December 4, 2008) | We explore the complex ethics of global aid with a young writer from Kenya, Binyavanga Wainaina. He is among a rising generation of African voices who bring a cautionary perspective to the morality and efficacy behind many Western initiatives to abolish poverty and speed development in Africa. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:59 |
| Repossessing Virtue: Martin Marty on Trust in Uncertain Times | The SOF First Person project kicks off with our search for fresh ways to talk about the current economic crisis -- beginning with reflections from an acclaimed historian and theologian. He shares a good deal of his "lived theology" -- the personal, daily acts of faith that preserve sanity and restore trust even at the most uncertain times. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:51:31 |
| Listening Generously: The Medicine of Rachel Naomi Remen (November 27, 2008) | Rachel Naomi Remen's lifelong struggle with chronic illness has shaped her philosophy and practice of medicine. She speaks with us about the art of listening to patients and other physicians, the difference between curing and healing, and how our losses help us to live. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:59 |
| The Sunni-Shia Divide and the Future of Islam (November 20, 2008) | We seek fresh insight into the history and the human and religious dynamics of Islam's Sunni-Shia divide. Vali Nasr says that it is not so different from dynamics in periods of Western Christian history. But he says that by bringing the majority Shia to power in Iraq, the U.S. has changed the religions dynamics of the Middle East. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:43 |
| Studs Terkel on Life, Faith, and Death (November 13, 2008) | We remember Studs Terkel, who recently died at the age of 96. The legendary interviewer chronicled decades of ordinary life and tumultuous change in U.S. culture. We visited him in his Chicago home in 2004 and drew out his wisdom and warmth on large existential themes of life and death. A lifelong agnostic, Studs Terkel shared his thoughts on religion as he'd observed it in his conversation partners, in culture, and in his own encounters with loss and mortality. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:23 |
| Getting Revenge and Forgiveness (November 6, 2008) | Professor of psychology Michael McCullough describes science that helps us comprehend how revenge came to have a purpose in human life. At the same time, he stresses, science is also revealing that human beings are more instinctively equipped for forgiveness than we've perhaps given ourselves credit for. Knowing this suggests ways to calm the revenge instinct in ourselves and others and embolden the forgiveness intuition. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:23 |
| Liberating the Founders (October 30, 2008) | With the presidential election approaching, we return to an evocative, relevant conversation from earlier this year with journalist Steven Waldman. He's done an unusual study investigating how the culture wars have skewed contemporary Americans' sense of how we came to have religious liberty in the first place. He understands why 21st-century struggles over religion in the public square spur passionate disagreement and entanglement with politics at its most impure. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:14 |
| African American. Woman. Leader. Meeting Bishop Vashti McKenzie. (October 23, 2008) | The 2008 U.S. presidential election has illustrated how gender, race, and religion can become lightning rods, and seen as potential stumbling blocks to leadership. Vashti McKenzie is a pioneering figure on all these fronts; when she became the first woman bishop of the oldest historic black church in America, she declared: "The stained glass ceiling has been pierced and broken." We offer her story, her wisdom, and her good humor as an edifying lens on the American past, present, and future. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:23 |
| The Faith Life of the Party - Part II, The Right (October 9, 2008) | The second part of our examination of religious energies below the surface of the 2008 presidential campaign. Conservative columnist Rod Dreher is an outspoken critic of mainstream Republican economic and environmental ideas and the conduct of the Iraq war, but he voted for George W. Bush twice. We explore the little-known story of religiously-influenced impulses within the conservative movement that diverge from the Religious Right. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:34 |
| The Faith Life of the Party - Part I, The Left (October 2, 2008) | We begin a refreshing, thought-provoking two-part conversation on politics and religion below the surface of the current U.S. presidential campaign. I speak with two counterintuitive yet influential voices. This week, national correspondent for Time magazine, Amy Sullivan, and next week, conservative columnist for the Dallas Morning News, Rod Dreher. Sullivan is a political liberal, an Evangelical Christian, and a savvy observer of the Democratic Party's complex relationship with faith over the past decade. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:27 |
| Days of Awe (September 25, 2008) | We'll delve into the world and meaning of the approaching Jewish High Holy Days -- ten days that span the new year of Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur's rituals of atonement. Sharon Brous, a young rabbi in L.A., is one voice in a Jewish spiritual renaissance that is taking many forms across the U.S. The vast majority of her congregation are people in their 20s and 30s, who, she says, are making life-giving connections between ritual, personal transformation, and relevance in the world. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:23 |
| The Origins and Impact of Pentecostalism (September 18, 2008) | Pentecostalism has appeared as a force on both sides of the current presidential campaign. News coverage of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Pentecostal background has overshadowed the fact that senior leaders of the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Convention are Pentecostal too. In 2006, Pentecostals from all around the globe traveled to the birthplace of this tradition -- Azusa Street in Los Angeles. We were there to cover the centennial celebration -- and now we bring this program into the present, exploring the origins, theology, and impact of this faith that now reaches an estimated half a billion people globally. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:32 |
| The Myth of Order | James Prosek has spent his life capturing wildlife -- whether it be literally as an avid fly-fisher, or figuratively through writing, drawing, and painting. View some of his artwork as he talks about these "mystical creatures," the names we give them, and ultimately why it's necessary to protect them. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:39:01 |
| Yoga. Meditation in Action with Seane Corn (September 11, 2008) | Yoga studios are cropping up on street corners across the U.S., and there are now yoga classes at YMCAs, law schools, and corporate headquarters. This 5000 year old spiritual technology is converging intriguingly with 21st century medical science and with many religious and philosophical perspectives. Seane Corn takes us inside the practicalities and power of yoga, and describes how it helps her face the darkness in herself and the world. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:34 |
| Stress and the Balance Within (September 4, 2008) | The American experience of stress has spawned a multi-billion dollar self-help industry. Wary of this, Esther Sternberg says that, until recently, modern science did not have the tools or the inclination to take emotional stress seriously. She shares fascinating new scientific insight into the molecular level of the mind-body connection. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:30 |
| Fishing with Mystery (August 28, 2008) | James Prosek is a 33-year-old artist, writer, and fly-fisher who has always, as he puts it, found God "through the theater of nature." From a young age he has been fascinated by trout, and now eel -- which he sees as "mystical creatures" -- and he's captured them physically and artistically, by way of both angling and paint. We explore the sense of meaning and ritual James Prosek developed along the way, including his concern with how we humans limit our sense of other creatures by the names we give them. We'll also hear the words of Henry David Thoreau, Bruce Chatwin, and Izaak Walton. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:22 |
| Rick and Kay Warren at Saddleback (August 21, 2008) | Evangelical leader Rick Warren is in the news for bringing John McCain and Barack Obama together at his Saddleback Church in California. This two-hour event, broadcast live on CNN, is just one sign of the cross-cultural authority Warren and his wife Kay have achieved in a handful of years. We revisit Krista's conversation with them at Saddleback last year -- exploring who they are and what motivates them. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:22 |
| The Power of Eckhart Tolle's Now (August 14, 2008) | Host Krista Tippett creates a certain kind of space in her interviews, and this conversation is no exception. Tolle shares his youthful experience of depression and despair -- suffering that led him to his own spiritual breakthrough, and ultimately, freedom and peace of mind. He also explicates his view of what he calls "the pain body" -- the accumulated emotional pain that may influence us and our relationships in negative ways. And Tolle talks about spirit and God, and what those concepts mean to him. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:18 |
| Living Vodou (August 7, 2008) | Vodou is the African-based spiritual world of the people of Haiti, a living religion wherever Haitians are found. It involves dramatic rituals and drumming, trances and dreaming, and belief in a spiritual realm that mirrors the physical world and interacts with it. But contrary to popular notions, it has nothing to do with sticking pins into dolls. With Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, a scholar who is also a Vodou priest, we explore its practices and metaphysics. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:18 |
| The Business of Doing Good (July 31, 2008) | The news has been marked in recent years, at regular intervals, by the moral and practical downfall of prominent businesses. Jonathan Greenblatt is among a new generation of entrepreneurs who want to lead a fundamental shift in corporate culture as well as philanthropy -- a merger between making a profit and doing good. We explore his way of seeing the world and his economics of "ethical brand architecture" and "fiercely pragmatic idealism." | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:27 |
| Play, Spirit, and Character (July 24, 2008) | Stuart Brown, a physician and director of the National Institute for Play, says that pleasurable, purposeless activity prevents violence and promotes trust, empathy, and adaptability to life's complication. He promotes cutting-edge science on human play, and draws on a rich universe of study of intelligent social animals. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:27 |
| Recovering Chinese Religiosities (July 17, 2008) | Put the words "religion" and "China" in a sentence together, and Western imaginations may go to indifference at best, to brutal repression at worst. Yet in grand historical perspective, China is a crucible of religious and philosophical thought and practice. Anthropologist and filmmaker Mayfair Yang says that the upheavals of the 20th century created an amnesia -— in the West as in China itself -- about this rich, pluralistic spiritual inheritance. She traces some of this story for us, and describes a subtle new revival of reverence and ritual. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:15 |
| Joe Carter and the Legacy of the African-American Spiritual (July 10, 2008) | The spiritual is celebrated in American culture and beyond. It is the source from which gospel, jazz, blues and hip-hop evolved. It was born in the American South, created by slaves, bards whose names history never recorded. The organizing concept of this music is not the melody of Europe, but the rhythm of Africa. And the theology conveyed in these songs is a potent mix of African spirituality, Hebrew narrative, Christian doctrine, and an extreme experience of human suffering. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:15 |
| The Ethics of Eating (July 3, 2008) | Author Barbara Kingsolver describes an adventure her family undertook to spend one year eating primarily what they could grow or raise themselves. As a citizen and mother more than an expert, she turned her life towards questions many of us are asking. Food, she says, is a "rare moral arena" in which the ethical choice is often the pleasurable choice. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:24 |
| Presence in the Wild (June 26, 2008) | Kate Braestrup is a writer, mother and a chaplain to game wardens on search-and-rescue missions in Maine. She is called in when children disappear in the woods and when snowmobilers disappear under the ice. There, she says, the rubber meets the road theologically. And her sense of life, death, and God is formed by what happens between and among people. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:05:30 |
| Sustaining Language, Sustaining Meaning - an Ojibwe Story (June 19, 2008) | Novelist and translator David Treuer is helping to compile the first practical grammar of the Ojibwe tongue of his tribe -- one of the 90 percent of human languages that could be endangered in this century. Treuer describes an unfolding awareness of aspects of his personality, of a sense of what brings him joy, an understanding of what makes him human -- that the Ojibwe language distinctly conveys. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:29 |
| Pagans Ancient and Modern (June 12, 2008) | An environmentalist who pursued the ecological impulse of Paganism, from its ancient roots to its modern revival in Europe and North America, discusses his observations about the spirit of Paganism and its influence on everyday Western culture -- and even on old-time religion. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:29 |
| The Spiritual Audacity of Abraham Joshua Heschel (June 5, 2008) | Heschel was a mystic who wrote transcendent, poetic words about God. At the very same time, he marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and organized religious leadership against the war in Vietnam, embodying the extreme social activism of the biblical prophets he studied. We explore his teachings and his legacy for people in our day. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:45 |
| Quarks and Creation (May 29, 2008) | Science and religion are often pitted against one another; but how do they complement, rather than contradict, one another? We learn how one man applies the deepest insights of modern physics to think about how the world fundamentally works, and how the universe might make space for prayer. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:47 |
| Approaching Prayer (May 22, 2008) | Americans are religious and non-religious, devout and irreverent. But in astonishing numbers, across that spectrum, most of us say that we pray. We open up the subject of prayer and explore how it sounds and what it means in three different traditions and lives. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:45 |
| The Spirituality of Addiction and Recovery (May 15, 2008) | Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson once said that the program he helped create is, "utter simplicity which encases a complete mystery." We explore the spiritual foundations of addiction and recovery with authors Kevin Griffin and Susan Cheever. Griffin reflects on the consonance of Buddhist teachings and the 12 Steps; Cheever tells her personal story and that of her father, the late fiction writer John Cheever. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:24 |
| The Freelance Monotheism of Karen Armstrong (May 8, 2008) | Karen Armstrong speaks about her progression from a disillusioned and damaged young nun into, in her words, a "freelance monotheist." She's a formidable thinker and scholar, but as a theologian she calls herself an amateur -- noting that the Latin root of the word "amateur" means a love of one's subject. Seven years in a strict religious order nearly snuffed out her ability to think about faith at all. Here, we hear the story behind Armstrong's developing ideas about God. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:24 |
| Being Catholic, The Beauty and Challenge of - Hearing the Faithful (May 3, 2008) | We depart from our usual format and listen to a spectrum of lay Catholic voices on the force of this vast and ancient tradition on their lives, the way they struggle with it, the sources of their love for it. Even to be a "lapsed Catholic," we hear, is a complex state of being. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:24 |
| Planting the Future with Wangari Maathai (April 24, 2008) | In honor of Earth Day, a riveting Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Wangari Maathai. She knows what many in the West have forgotten -- that ecological crises are often the hidden root causes of war. Maathai speaks about the global balance of human and natural resources, and she shares her thoughts on where God resides. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:24 |
| Evangelical Politics: Three Generations (April 17, 2008) | A passionate discussion is unfolding among Evangelical leaders and communities. Should Christians be involved in politics and if so, how? What has gone wrong, and what has been learned from the Moral Majority to today? Chuck Colson, Greg Boyd, and Shane Claiborne are three generations of Evangelicals who discuss and debate these answers. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:08 |
| Brother Thay: A Radio Pilgrimmage with Thich Nhat Hanh (April 10, 2008) | Forcibly exiled from his native country, Zen master and poet Thich Nhat Hanh recently visited Vietnam for the first time in nearly 40 years. In 2003, Speaking of Faith took a radio pilgrimage with the Buddhist monk at a Christian conference center in a lakeside setting of rural Wisconsin. Thich Nhat Hanh offers stark, gentle wisdom for living in a world of anger and violence. Here, he discusses the concepts of engaged Buddhism, being peace, and mindfulness. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:08 |
| Exploring a New Humanism (March 27, 2008) | In a recent Pew poll, 16 percent of Americans identified themselves as "unaffiliated" - atheist, agnostic, or most prominently "nothing in particular." Greg Epstein, a Humanist chaplain at Harvard, described himself that way until he discovered the tradition of humanism. He is passionate about articulating an atheist identity that is not driven by a stance against religion but by positive ethical beliefs and actions. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:29 |
| The Need for Creeds (March 20, 2008) | For many modern Americans, the very idea of reciting an unchanging creed, composed centuries ago, is troublesome. But, Jaroslav Pelikan, who died on May 13, 2006, was a scholar who devoted his life to exploring the vitality of ancient theology and creeds. He insisted that even modern pluralists need strong statements of belief. Here, we revisit Krista's 2003 conversation with him, who, then, in his 80th year, had released a historic collection of Christian faith from biblical times to the present and from across the globe. They discuss the history and nature of creeds, and how a fixed creed can be reconciled with an honest, intellectual faith that changes and evolves. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:26 |
| Liberating the Founders (March 13, 2008) | Warning: this conversation may not mirror what you learned in school. The culture wars of recent years, journalist Steven Waldman says, hijacked Americans' understanding of the country's founders and of the meaning of religious liberty. This hinders people from grasping what is really at stake in the current debates about the relationship between government and religion. It may even distort the wisdom we might bring to young democracies around the world. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:23 |
| A New Voice for Islam (March 6, 2008) | Ingrid Mattson, the first woman and first convert to lead the Islamic Society of North America, describes her experience of Islamic spirituality, which she discovered in her twenties after a Catholic upbringing. We probe her unusual perspective on a tumultuous age for Islam in the West and around the world. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:22 |
| The Inner Landscape of Beauty (February 28, 2008) | John O'Donohue was an Irish poet and philosopher beloved for his book "Anam Cara" — Gaelic for "soul friend" — and for his insistence on beauty as a human calling and a defining aspect of God. Before his untimely death this year, he spoke with Krista in our studios. And so this hour has become a remembrance of him. But John O'Donohue had a very Celtic, lifelong fascination with what he called "the invisible world." And he would also surely see this also as a serendipitous continuation of his life's work — of bringing ancient Celtic wisdom to modern confusions and longings. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:18 |
| [8 of 8] Poem: "The Nativity" | Interviewed shortly before his death, the Irish poet John O'Donohue recited several of his poems during his conversation with Krista. "The Nativity" is the eighth of eight poems that provide a preview of their conversation in The Inner Landscape of Beauty. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:51:31 |
| [7 of 8] Poem: "Since You Came" | Interviewed shortly before his death, the Irish poet John O'Donohue recited several of his poems during his conversation with Krista. "Since You Came" is the seventh of eight poems that provide a preview of their conversation in The Inner Landscape of Beauty. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:51:31 |
| [6 of 8] Poem: "For the Pilgrim a Kiss: Body Language" | Interviewed shortly before his death, the Irish poet John O'Donohue recited several of his poems during his conversation with Krista. "For the Pilgrim a Kiss: Between Things" is the sixth of eight poems that provide a preview of their conversation in The Inner Landscape of Beauty. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:51:31 |
| [5 of 8] Poem: "For the Pilgrim a Kiss: Between Things" | Interviewed shortly before his death, the Irish poet John O'Donohue recited several of his poems during his conversation with Krista. "For the Pilgrim a Kiss: Between Things" is the fifth of eight poems that provide a preview of their conversation in The Inner Landscape of Beauty. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:51:31 |
| [4 of 8] Poem: "For the Pilgrim a Kiss: The Caha River" | Interviewed shortly before his death, the Irish poet John O'Donohue recited several of his poems during his conversation with Krista. "For the Pilgrim a Kiss: The Caha River" is the fourth of eight poems that provide a preview of their conversation in The Inner Landscape of Beauty. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:51:31 |
| [3 of 8] Poem: "Beannacht" | Interviewed shortly before his death, the Irish poet John O'Donohue recited several of his poems during his conversation with Krista. "Beannacht" is the third of eight poems that provide a preview of their conversation in The Inner Landscape of Beauty. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:51:31 |
| [2 of 8] Poem: "A Blessing for One Who Holds Power" | Interviewed shortly before his death, the Irish poet John O'Donohue recited several of his poems during his conversation with Krista. "A Blessing for One Who Holds Power" is the second of eight poems that provide a preview of their conversation in The Inner Landscape of Beauty. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:51:31 |
| [1 of 8] Poem: "A Blessing for a Friend on the Arrival of Illness" | Interviewed shortly before his death, the Irish poet John O'Donohue recited several of his poems during his conversation with Krista. "A Blessing for a Friend on the Arrival of Illness" is the first of eight poems that provide a preview of their conversation in The Inner Landscape of Beauty. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:51:31 |
| Whale Songs and Elephant Loves (February 21, 2008) | Katy Payne is an acoustic biologist with a Quaker sensibility. In a career that has spanned the wild coast of Argentina and the rainforests of Africa, she discovered that humpback whales compose ever-changing songs; and that elephants communicate across long distances by way of sounds beyond the realm of human hearing. She reflects on life in this world through listening to two of its largest and most mysterious creatures. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:18 |
| Reflections of a British Muslim Extremist (February 7, 2008) | British activist Ed Husain was seduced, at the age of 16, by revolutionary Islamist ideals that flourished at the heart of educated British culture. Yet he later shrank back from radicalism after coming close to a murder and watching people he loved become suicide bombers. He dug deeper into Islamic spirituality, and now offers a fresh and daring perspective on the way forward. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:18 |
| Remembering Forward (January 31, 2008) | Before a live audience at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, Krista reads from her book, "Speaking of Faith." She traces the intersection of human experience and religious ideas in her own life, just as she asks her guests to do each week. Krista reflects on her adventure of conversation across the world's traditions -- and on the whole story of religion in human life, beyond the headlines of violence. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:18 |
| Inside Mormon Faith (January 24, 2008) | Americans have been hearing about Mormonism in the context of the presidential campaign. But we're learning about this faith of 13 million people indirectly, by way of rhetoric and defense. In this program, we avoid well-trodden, controversial ground and seek an understanding of some doctrinal and spiritual basics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Robert Millet, a leading scholar of the church and a lifelong practitioner, describes a developing young religion with distinct mystical and practical interpretations of the nature of God, family, and eternity. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:18 |
| Discovering Where We Live: Reimagining Environmentalism (January 17, 2008) | Environmentalism and climate change are hot topics; yet they're still often imagined as the territory of scientists, expert activists, and those who can afford to be environmentally conscious. We discover two people who are transforming the ecology of their immediate worlds: biologist Calvin DeWitt in Dunn, Wisconsin and Majora Carter in New York's South Bronx. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:18 |
| Diplomacy and Religion in the 21st Century (January 3, 2008) | The greatest threat in the post-Cold War world, says Douglas Johnston, is the prospective marriage of religious extremism with weapons of mass destruction. Yet the U.S. spends most of its time, resources, and weapons fighting the symptoms of this threat, not the cause. The diplomacy of the future, he is showing, must engage religion as part of the strategic solution to global conflicts. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:18 |
| Listening Generously: The Medicine of Rachel Naomi Remen (December 27, 2007) | Dr. Remen is a clinical professor at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine and a leader in the growing field of integrative medicine, bringing together the best of modern knowledge both scientific and spiritual. She speaks about the art of listening to patients and other physicians, the difference between curing and healing, and how our losses help us to live. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:18 |
| The Wisdom of Tenderness (December 20, 2007) | For the Christmas season and the New Year, a rare conversation with one of the wise men in our world today -- Jean Vanier. The philosopher and Catholic social innovator created a model of community, L'Arche, that embodies the ideal of power in smallness and light in the darkness of human existence. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:18 |
| The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi (December 13, 2007) | The 13th-century Muslim mystic and poet Rumi has long shaped Muslims around the world and has now become popular in the West. Rumi created a new language of love within the Islamic mystical tradition of Sufism. We hear his poetry as we delve into his world and listen for its echoes in our own. | Krista Tippett, American Public Media | 00:53:18 |
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