On Being with Krista Tippett
Episodes
Jean Vanier and Jo Anne Horstmann — L'Arche: A Community of Brokenness and Beauty
02 Aug 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note added 02/25/20: In February 2020, L’Arche International released the results of anindependent investigation that it commissioned in...
Krista Tippett — Remembering Forward
07 Jun 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Before a live audience at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, Krista reads from her book, “Speaking of Faith.” She traces the intersect...
[Unedited] Krista Tippett — Remembering Forward
07 Jun 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Before a live audience at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, Krista reads from her book, “Speaking of Faith.” She traces the intersect...
John Morris — The Soul of War
24 May 2007
Contributed by Lukas
With Iraq veteran and chaplain Major John Morris, we explore how war challenges the human spirit and the core tenets of a life of faith. The War on Te...
George F. R. Ellis — Science and Hope
10 May 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest straddles the worlds of cosmology and social activism. During a live audience interview in Philadelphia, he tells us how he unites his convi...
The Private Faith of Jimmy Carter
26 Apr 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Jimmy Carter — former president and Nobel Laureate, author and global humanitarian — speaks of his born-again faith with a directness that is stri...
Richard Cizik — The Evolution of American Evangelicalism
12 Apr 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, conservative Christian leaders demanded that Richard Cizik be silenced or removed from his post. They charged that his concerns about clim...
Charles Villa-Vicencio and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela — Truth and Reconciliation
22 Mar 2007
Contributed by Lukas
South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) held public sessions from 1996 to 1998, and concluded its work in 2004. In an attempt to re...
S. James Gates and Thomas Levenson — Einstein's Ethics
15 Mar 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Part one of this series takes Einstein’s science as a starting point for exploring the great physicist’s perspective on ideas such as mystery, ete...
[Unedited] S. James Gates with Krista Tippett (On Einstein's Ethics)
15 Mar 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Part one of this series takes Einstein’s science as a starting point for exploring the great physicist’s perspective on ideas such as mystery, ete...
[Unedited] Thomas Levenson with Krista Tippett (On Einstein's Ethics)
15 Mar 2007
Contributed by Lukas
Part one of this series takes Einstein’s science as a starting point for exploring the great physicist’s perspective on ideas such as mystery, ete...
Leila Ahmed — Muslim Women and Other Misunderstandings
07 Dec 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Is there such a thing as the Muslim world? Is the “veil” a sign of submission or courage? Is our Western concern about women in Islam really a con...
Nathan Dungan — Money and Moral Balance
30 Nov 2006
Contributed by Lukas
The sales are starting, the stores are open late, and many of us are gearing up to spend more money than we actually have in a holiday season with dee...
[Unedited] Martin Marty With Krista Tippett (On America's Changing Religious Landscape)
02 Nov 2006
Contributed by Lukas
A great public theologian and historian, Martin Marty offers personal and historical perspective on religion in modern life — including the nature o...
Martin Marty — America's Changing Religious Landscape
02 Nov 2006
Contributed by Lukas
A great public theologian and historian, Martin Marty offers personal and historical perspective on religion in modern life — including the nature o...
John Danforth — Conservative Politics and Moderate Religion
14 Sep 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Politics driven by a religious agenda, Danforth says, is true neither to his understanding of Christian faith nor to the traditional values of the Rep...
Seyyed Hossein Nasr — Hearing Muslim Voices Since 9/11
07 Sep 2006
Contributed by Lukas
An Iranian man sits on the ground after weekly Friday prayers at Tehran University in the Iranian capital, 02 June 2006. An Iranian cleric today dismi...
David Hilfiker — Seeing Poverty After Katrina
24 Aug 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Hurricane Katrina brought urban poverty in America into all of our living rooms. In this program, David Hilfiker tells the story of how poverty and ra...
Basil Brave Heart and Susan Cheever — Spirituality and Recovery
27 Jul 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson once said that the program he helped create is, “utter simplicity which encases a complete mystery.” O...
Elie Wiesel — The Tragedy of the Believer
13 Jul 2006
Contributed by Lukas
A survivor of the Holocaust, in which he lost most of his family, Wiesel was a seminal chronicler of that event and its meaning. Wiesel shares some of...
Dan and Sue Hanson — Room for J: One Family's Struggle with Schizophrenia
04 May 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Joel Hanson has schizophrenia and believes he is God. His parents reflect on living with their son and how they have learned to see mental illness, no...
Mohammed Abu-Nimer + Sami Adwan — Two Narratives, Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian Present (part 2)
16 Mar 2006
Contributed by Lukas
As Israel prepares for a critical election and Hamas forms a Palestinian cabinet, we explore the difficulty of reaching resolution in a land that its ...
Yossi Klein Halevi — Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian Present, Part 1
09 Mar 2006
Contributed by Lukas
As Israel prepares for a critical election and Hamas forms a Palestinian cabinet, we explore the difficulty of reaching resolution in a land that its ...
Prabhu Guptara — The Gods of Business
23 Feb 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In an age of Enron and WorldCom, how can we imagine a place for business ethics, much less religious virtue, in the global economy? We speak with a Hi...
Vincent Cornell — The Face of the Prophet: Cartoons and Chasm
16 Feb 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest, an American Muslim and religious scholar, helps untangle the knot of violent and bewildered reactions to cartoons depicting the Prophet Muh...
Isabel Mukonyora — Sacred Wilderness, An African Story
09 Feb 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Isabel Mukonyora has followed and studied a religious movement of her Shona people, the Masowe Apostles, that embraces Christian tradition while addre...
Martin Doblmeier — Ethics and the Will of God: The Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
02 Feb 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose life spanned the rise and fall of Hitler’s Germany, offers us a model of personal morality and conscience in the most tro...
Manuel Vasquez — Latino Migrations and the Changing Face of Religion in the Americas
19 Jan 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Vásquez believes that in the global age, religious dynamics may have a boomerang effect across the Americas with dramatic consequences. We explore ho...
[Unedited] Marie Friedmann Marquardt With Krista Tippett
19 Jan 2006
Contributed by Lukas
This unedited conversation with Marie Friedmann Marquardt comes from our produced show “Marie Friedmann Marquardt and Manuel A. Vasquez on Latino Mi...
Joan Halifax — A Midwife to the Dying
01 Dec 2005
Contributed by Lukas
The Terri Schiavo case earlier this year raised ethical and medical issues that remain with us today. But missing in that debate was a real attention ...
Don Saliers and Edward Foley — The Meaning of Communion: At the Table
24 Nov 2005
Contributed by Lukas
What are the origins of communion, and what is its deepest social relevance? Two leading theologians of communion describe a ritual that is not just p...
Joan Brown Campbell and Thomas Hoyt, Jr. — Living Reconciliation: Two Ecumenical Pioneers
03 Nov 2005
Contributed by Lukas
Two people with unique perspectives both discovered ecumenism — the movement to reconcile Christian churches — during the Civil Rights era. They’...
James Smith and Nancey Murphy — Evangelicals, Out of the Box
20 Oct 2005
Contributed by Lukas
Stereotypes tell us this: Evangelical Christians are politically conservative, closed-minded, morally judgmental, and anti-science. We speak with two ...
Miroslav Volf — Religion and Violence
04 Aug 2005
Contributed by Lukas
Religious extremism drives some of the most intractable conflicts around the world. Our guest knows this shadow side of the Christian faith in his per...
Kecia Ali, Omid Safi, Precious Rasheeda Muhammad, and Michael Wolfe — Progressive Islam in America
28 Jul 2005
Contributed by Lukas
In the years since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, scrutiny of the religion of Islam has become part and parcel of our public life. In ...
Khaled Abou El Fadl and Harold M. Schulweis — Religion and Our World in Crisis
09 Jun 2005
Contributed by Lukas
In this personal exchange between a Jewish rabbi and Islamic scholar, host Krista Tippett explores the integrity of religious faith and openness to th...
Abdul-Rasheed Muhammad — Serving Country, Serving Allah
26 May 2005
Contributed by Lukas
There are an estimated 4,000 Muslim soldiers in the U.S. military, though some counts place that number much higher. We’ll speak with the first Musl...
Peter Berger and Rosabeth Moss Kanter — Globalization and the Rise of Religion
19 May 2005
Contributed by Lukas
Experts once predicted that as the world grew more modern, religion would decline. Precisely the opposite has proven true; religious movements are sur...
Helen Prejean, Debbie Morris, and Elie Spitz — Reflections on the Death Penalty in America
14 Apr 2005
Contributed by Lukas
The American public supports the principle of capital punishment, but there is a growing consensus among Jewish and Christian thinkers — across trad...
Jelle De Boer and Ursula Goodenough — The Morality of Nature
07 Apr 2005
Contributed by Lukas
We explore the human and religious implications of natural disasters through the eyes of two scientists steeped in the workings of the natural world. ...
Joel Marcus — The Jewish Roots of the Christian Story
24 Mar 2005
Contributed by Lukas
New Testament writings about Jews may sound inflammatory in modern ears. A New Testament scholar with ties to both Judaism and Christianity helps us p...
Steven Waldman — The Future of Moral Values
20 Jan 2005
Contributed by Lukas
We deconstruct the phrase “moral values,” which has confused and divided Americans since November’s election. As the second term of George W. Bu...
Omid Safi and Seemi Bushra Ghazi — The Spirit of Islam
06 Jan 2005
Contributed by Lukas
We experience the religious thought and the spiritual vitality of two Muslims—male and female—both American and both with roots in ancient Islamic...
Dr. Oz — Heart and Soul
04 Nov 2004
Contributed by Lukas
The word “healing” means “to make whole.” But historically, Western medicine has taken a divided view of human health. It has stressed medical...
[Unedited] Mehmet Oz with Krista Tippett
04 Nov 2004
Contributed by Lukas
The word “healing” means “to make whole.” But historically, Western medicine has taken a divided view of human health. It has stressed medical...
Muqtedar Khan and Cheryl Sanders — The Other Religious America in Election 2004
21 Oct 2004
Contributed by Lukas
In this show, we speak with an African American Christian and an American Muslim and explore the perspectives of two religious communities which defy ...
Carl Feit, Anne Foerst, and Lindon Eaves — Science and Being
23 Sep 2004
Contributed by Lukas
Many of history’s greatest scientists considered their work to be a religious endeavor, a direct search for God. Pioneers like Newton, Copernicus, a...
Steven Waldman — Beyond the God Gap
16 Sep 2004
Contributed by Lukas
The theory of the “God gap”—often broadly suggesting that religious Americans are conservative and will vote Republican while non-religious Amer...
Joseph L. Price — In Praise Of Play
12 Aug 2004
Contributed by Lukas
If sport is an American religion, is that bad for us? What is the metaphysic of baseball? In this show, we’ll speak with a theologian and sports fan...
Phyllis Tickle and Lynn Schofield Clark — A Return to the Mystery: Religion, Fantasy, and Entertainment
29 Jul 2004
Contributed by Lukas
During the past decade, there has been an explosion of films and television programs containing religious and spiritual themes. Mel Gibson’s The “...
Joseph Califano — Religion and Politics
15 Jul 2004
Contributed by Lukas
We speak with Washington insider Joseph Califano, a devout, lifelong Catholic, who held key positions inside the Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter administ...
Anchee Min — Surviving the Religion of Mao
17 Jun 2004
Contributed by Lukas
Author Anchee Min has won acclaim for her memoir of growing up in China under Mao Zedong. She’s also written several works of fiction in which she e...
[Unedited] Anchee Min With Krista Tippett (On Surviving The Religion Of Mao)
17 Jun 2004
Contributed by Lukas
Anchee Min has recently published the second book in her fictional account of the last Chinese imperial court and its empress. In her personal story a...
Robert Franklin and Margaret Poloma — Pentecostalism in America (June 10, 2004)
10 Jun 2004
Contributed by Lukas
Pentecostalism began on the American frontier, and it has become one of the largest expressions of global Christianity. In less than a century, it has...
Richard Mouw and Virginia Ramey Mollenkott — Gay Marriage: Broken or Blessed? Two Evangelical Views
13 May 2004
Contributed by Lukas
Our culture’s acrimonious debate on the morality of gay marriage has been framed in religious — largely conservative Christian — terms. We go be...
Mariane Pearl — A Spirit of Defiance
29 Apr 2004
Contributed by Lukas
In this close-up look at the human dynamics of the war on terror, our guest speaks about her husband, journalist Daniel Pearl, who was murdered in Pak...
[Unedited] Mariane Pearl With Krista Tippett
29 Apr 2004
Contributed by Lukas
In this close-up look at the human dynamics of the war on terror, our guest speaks about her husband, journalist Daniel Pearl, who was murdered in Pak...
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, Richard Hays, and Linda Loving — Passover and Easter
08 Apr 2004
Contributed by Lukas
In the coinciding seasons of Passover and Easter, two world religions celebrate their core stories in ritual and worship. Each of these sacred holiday...
Ahmed H. al-Rahim — A Perspective on Islam in Iraq
04 Mar 2004
Contributed by Lukas
The religious landscape of Iraq is complex and somewhat enigmatic to the western world. Nearly 97% of Iraq’s 25 million people are Muslim, and a maj...
Luke Timothy Johnson and Bernadette Brooten — Deciphering the Da Vinci Code
29 Jan 2004
Contributed by Lukas
The wildly popular novel turned movie reimagines the New Testament, in part, as a cover-up. What really happened in the fluid early years of Christian...
Michael Cromartie and E. J. Dionne — Religion on the Campaign Trail
22 Jan 2004
Contributed by Lukas
Religious pronouncements seem to have become mandatory for the Democratic candidates in this election. Yet it’s been easy to deride the resulting so...
Sylvia Poggioli, Donald Cozzens, and Margaret A. Farley — The Religious Legacy of John Paul II
04 Dec 2003
Contributed by Lukas
John Paul II’s papacy was dramatic and historic on many fronts. We explore some of the critical religious issues of his 26 years as pontiff and disc...
Roberta Bondi, Gregory Plotnikoff, Michele Balamani, Anoushka Shankar, and Stephen Mitchell — Patterns of Prayer
27 Nov 2003
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, the practices of prayer have been evolving for many religious traditions. Even western medicine is looking at prayer as it expands it...
Laurie Zoloth — A Theological Perspective on Cloning
30 Oct 2003
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jing Kang, from the Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School sits in his lab in Boston, Massachusetts. ...
Coleen Rowley and Tim McGuire — Work and Conscience
29 Aug 2003
Contributed by Lukas
Host Krista Tippett explores the practical implications of spirituality at work with Federal Bureau of Investigations special agent and whistleblower ...
John Lipscomb and Catherine Roskam — Homosexuality and the Divided Church
08 Aug 2003
Contributed by Lukas
The General Convention of the Episcopal Church has sharpened our culture’s intensifying focus on homosexuality. In a year of political and religious...
Rebecca Chopp, Kecia Ali, and Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen — Women, Marriage, and Religion
01 Aug 2003
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last four decades, women’s roles have changed dramatically — at home, in the work force and in religious institutions as well. In America...
[Unedited] Luke Timothy Johnson With Krista Tippett (On Marriage, Family, And Divorce)
25 Jul 2003
Contributed by Lukas
American ideals of courtship and marriage echo with Biblical imagery — “bone of my bones” “flesh of my flesh.” But what does the Bible reall...
Elliot Dorff and Luke Timothy Johnson — Marriage, Family, and Divorce
25 Jul 2003
Contributed by Lukas
American ideals and rituals of marriage, family, and divorce are infused with biblical messages. But what does the Bible really say, and how has it be...
[Unedited] Elliot Dorff With Krista Tippett
25 Jul 2003
Contributed by Lukas
American ideals of courtship and marriage echo with Biblical imagery — “bone of my bones” “flesh of my flesh.” But what does the Bible reall...
Charles Haynes, Philip Hamburger, and Cheryl Crazy Bull — Religious Liberty in America: The Legacy of Church and State
01 Jul 2003
Contributed by Lukas
At the center of our history of church and state is a troublesome irony. What began as an attempt to guarantee religious tolerance in the new world ha...
David Fox and Bruce Weigl — Sacrifice and Reconciliation
23 May 2003
Contributed by Lukas
In remembering the legacy of four World War II chaplains — Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish — who went down together with their torpedoed ship in ...
Sharon Salzberg, Lawrence Kushner, Anne Lamott, and Omid Safi — The Meaning of Faith
11 Apr 2003
Contributed by Lukas
In our time, some associate the word “religion” with rigid dogma and the excesses of institutions. The word “spirituality” on the other hand c...
Bruce Feiler — Children of Abraham
04 Apr 2003
Contributed by Lukas
The sacred story of Abraham traverses the geography of the most bitter political conflict in the modern world — beginning in what is now southern Ir...
Peter J. Gomes, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Chris Hedges — Religion in a Time of War
27 Mar 2003
Contributed by Lukas
More than any crisis in modern memory, the War on Terror—including the current U.S. military presence in Iraq—is being debated in religious, usual...
Mario Cuomo and Mark Souder — Faith and Politics in America
20 Feb 2003
Contributed by Lukas
Even among deeply religious Americans, there’s no consensus on the proper role of religion in politics. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in...
Thomas Moore, Debra Haffner, and Anthony Ugolnik — Spirituality and Sexuality
19 Dec 2002
Contributed by Lukas
Christian scripture and tradition have overwhelmingly shaped American attitudes toward sexuality. And in the past year, our national attention has bee...
Parker Palmer, Phyllis Tickle, and Ingrid Mattson — The Spiritual Fallout of 9/11
05 Sep 2002
Contributed by Lukas
In this program, we delve into uncomfortable religious and moral questions that the September 2001 terrorist attacks raised—questions of meaning tha...
Khaled Abou El Fadl, Richard J. Mouw, and Yossi Klein Halevi — The Power of Fundamentalism (Aug 19, 2004)
18 Apr 2002
Contributed by Lukas
Religious fundamentalism has reshaped our view of world events. In this show, host Krista Tippett explores the appeal of fundamentalism in Islam, Chri...
Robert Pollack, Rami Nashashibi, Lisa Lampman, Leon Weinstein, and M. Scott Peck — The Problem of Evil
15 Feb 2002
Contributed by Lukas
Many around the world labeled the events of September 11 as “evil.” President Bush in his recent State of the Union speech described “an axis of...
Robert Coles, Diane Komp, and Carol Dittberner — Children and God (Dec 16, 2004)
14 Dec 2001
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Montessori, the great 20th-century educational pioneer, observed that children have an intuition for religious life at an early age that is matc...
Jean Bethke Elshtain, John Paul Lederach, and Michael Orange — Justice and a Just War
09 Nov 2001
Contributed by Lukas
Just-war theory was set in motion in the 5th century as St. Augustine agonized over how to reconcile Christianity’s high ethical ideals with the dev...
Where Was God?
22 Sep 2001
Contributed by Lukas
Great religious minds reflect on tragedies surrounding September 11, 2001. As America moves beyond raw emotion and religious sentiment, this program e...