On Being with Krista Tippett
Episodes
Joy Harjo — The Whole of Time
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Though we have instructions and a map buried in our hearts when we enter this world,” the extraordinary Joy Harjo has written, “nothing quite p...
[Extended] Joy Harjo with Krista Tippett
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Though we have instructions and a map buried in our hearts when we enter this world,” the extraordinary Joy Harjo has written, “nothing quite p...
Daniel Kahneman – Why We Contradict Ourselves and Confound Each Other
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The classic economic theory embedded in western democracies holds an assumption that human beings will almost always behave rationally in the end and ...
[Unedited] Daniel Kahneman with Krista Tippett
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The classic economic theory embedded in western democracies holds an assumption that human beings will almost always behave rationally in the end and ...
Living the Questions — We’ve been enmeshed with our technologies. Tech Shabbat for everyone?
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Krista’s been in a conversation with Tiffany Shlain for several years about her practice of “Tech Shabbat.” For more than a decade, she and her ...
Hanif Abdurraqib — Moments of Shared Witnessing
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hanif Abdurraqib’s writing is filled with lyricism, rhythm, people and precision. In his essays and poetry, he introduces readers to a soundscape of...
[Unedited] Hanif Abdurraqib with Pádraig Ó Tuama
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hanif Abdurraqib’s writing is filled with lyricism, rhythm, people and precision. In his essays and poetry, he introduces readers to a soundscape of...
Layli Long Soldier — The Freedom of Real Apologies
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Layli Long Soldier is a writer, a mother, a citizen of the United States, and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She has a way of opening up this ...
[Unedited] Layli Long Soldier with Krista Tippett
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Layli Long Soldier is a writer, a mother, a citizen of the United States, and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She has a way of opening up this ...
Resmaa Menakem — ‘Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence’
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Across the past year, and now as the murder trial of Derek Chauvin unfolds with Minneapolis in fresh pain and turmoil, we return again to the groundin...
[Unedited] Resmaa Menakem with Krista Tippett
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Across the past year, and now as the murder trial of Derek Chauvin unfolds with Minneapolis in fresh pain and turmoil, we return again to the groundin...
Bryan Doerries — "You are not alone across time."
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Remember,” Bryan Doerries likes to say in both physical and virtual gatherings, “you are not alone in this room — and you are not alone acros...
[Unedited] Bryan Doerries with Krista Tippett
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Remember,” Bryan Doerries likes to say in both physical and virtual gatherings, “you are not alone in this room — and you are not alone acros...
Serene Jones — Grace in a Fractured World
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The glory that coexists in human life right alongside our weird propensity to choose what is not good for us; the difference between a place of sheer ...
[Unedited] Serene Jones with Krista Tippett
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The glory that coexists in human life right alongside our weird propensity to choose what is not good for us; the difference between a place of sheer ...
Michael Longley — The Vitality of Ordinary Things
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To reassert the liveliness of ordinary things, precisely in the face of what is hardest and most broken in life and society — this has been Michael ...
[Unedited] Michael Longley with Krista Tippett
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To reassert the liveliness of ordinary things, precisely in the face of what is hardest and most broken in life and society — this has been Michael ...
[Unedited] Christine Runyan with Krista Tippett
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The years of pandemic and lockdown are still working powerfully on us from the inside. But we have trouble acknowledging this, much less metabolizing ...
Naomi Shihab Nye — “Before You Know Kindness As the Deepest Thing Inside...”
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s pretty intriguing to follow poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s idea that most of us actually “think in poems” whether we know it or not. Rarely, as ...
[Unedited] Naomi Shihab Nye with Krista Tippett
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s pretty intriguing to follow poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s idea that most of us actually “think in poems” whether we know it or not. Rarely, as ...
The Question “Who Am I,” and Movies We Love
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So many of us have been getting through this year by watching movies at home by ourselves, or with friends on Zoom, inventing new ways to grieve and t...
Ariel Burger — Be a Blessing
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There is a question rolling around even in the most secular of corners: What do religious people and traditions have to teach as we do the work ahead ...
[Extended] Ariel Burger with Krista Tippett
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There is a question rolling around even in the most secular of corners: What do religious people and traditions have to teach as we do the work ahead ...
Alain de Botton — The True Hard Work of Love and Relationships
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As people, and as a culture, Alain de Botton says, we would be much saner and happier if we reexamined our very view of love. His New York Times essay...
[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As people, and as a culture, Alain de Botton says, we would be much saner and happier if we reexamined our very view of love. His New York Times essay...
Living the Questions — What's our communal equivalent of rubbing each other's feet?
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A companion conversation to Parker Palmer’s reflections in this week’s On Being, about the soul in depression. Krista catches up with her friend a...
The Soul in Depression
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’re increasingly attentive to the many faces of depression and anxiety, and we’re fluent in the languages of psychology and medication. But depr...
[Unedited] Andrew Solomon with Krista Tippett
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the unedited conversation Krista had with Andrew Solomon in 2002, which is excerpted within our produced episode “The Soul in Depression.”...
[Unedited] Anita Barrows with Krista Tippett
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the unedited conversation Krista had with Anita Barrows in 2002, which is excerpted within our produced episode “The Soul in Depression.” ...
[Unedited] Parker Palmer with Krista Tippett
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the unedited conversation Krista had with Parker Palmer in 2002, which is excerpted within our produced episode “The Soul in Depression.” ...
J. Drew Lanham reads his poem “Love for a Song”
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ornithologist J. Drew Lanham reads his poem, “Love for a Song.” Krista’s conversation with him is our episode, ‘I Worship Every Bird that I Se...
J. Drew Lanham reads from his book.
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is an excerpt from a chapter called “New Religion” in 'The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature.'There's also a vid...
Katherine May Reads from 'Wintering'
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This passage of Katherine May's book, read by her in our latest show, is so lovely that we decided to offer it up as its own meditation. There's also ...
Living the Questions: A Civil Rights Elder on Exhaustion and Rest, Spiritual Practice, and the Necessity of Loving Community
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our colleague Lucas Johnson catches up with one of his mentors, Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons. Now a member of the National Council of Elders, she was a t...
[Unedited] Nicki Giovanni with Krista Tippett
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It feels good and right this week to sit with the beloved writer Nikki Giovanni’s signature mix of high seriousness, sweeping perspective, and insis...
Frank Wilczek — Beauty as a Compass for Truth
07 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Having tasted beauty at the heart of the world, we hunger for more.” These are words from Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek in his book, A Beautiful ...
[Unedited] Frank Wilczek with Krista Tippett
07 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Having tasted beauty at the heart of the world, we hunger for more.” These are words from Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek in his book, A Beautiful ...
Mary Catherine Bateson — Living as an Improvisational Art
31 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Underpinning all the great challenges of our time there is the human drama, the human condition. And as we move beyond 2020, we turn to Mary Catherine...
[Unedited] Mary Catherine Bateson with Krista Tippett
31 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Underpinning all the great challenges of our time there is the human drama, the human condition. And as we move beyond 2020, we turn to Mary Catherine...
Gaelynn Lea’s Voice and Violin
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gaelynn Lea’s voice and violin land like a balm — an offering of both clarity and gladness that can still be mustered in this midwinter, this upen...
[Unedited] Gaelynn Lea with Krista Tippett
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gaelynn Lea’s voice and violin land like a balm — an offering of both clarity and gladness that can still be mustered in this midwinter, this upen...
Jennifer Michael Hecht — 'We Believe Each Other Into Being'
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“We are indebted to one another and the debt is a kind of faith — a beautiful, difficult, strange faith. We believe each other into being.” That...
[Unedited] Jennifer Michael Hecht with Krista Tippett
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“We are indebted to one another and the debt is a kind of faith — a beautiful, difficult, strange faith. We believe each other into being.” That...
Bishop Michael Curry & Dr. Russell Moore — Spiritual Bridge People
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’re in a tender spiritual moment, widely feeling our need for re-grounding both alone and together. By way of the Almighty force of Zoom, Krista e...
[Unedited] Bishop Michael Curry & Dr. Russell Moore with Krista Tippett
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’re in a tender spiritual moment, widely feeling our need for re-grounding both alone and together. By way of the Almighty force of Zoom, Krista e...
Agustín Fuentes — This Species Moment
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve realized in 2020 that the way we’ve organized culture — from the economy to race to work — could be done radically differently. We’ve ...
[Unedited] Agustín Fuentes with Krista Tippett
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve realized in 2020 that the way we’ve organized culture — from the economy to race to work — could be done radically differently. We’ve ...
Richard Blanco — How to Love a Country
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Cuban American civil engineer turned writer, Richard Blanco, straddles the many ways a sense of place merges with human emotion to make home and b...
[Unedited] Richard Blanco with Krista Tippett
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Cuban American civil engineer turned writer, Richard Blanco, straddles the many ways a sense of place merges with human emotion to make home and b...
Remembering Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rabbi Sacks was one of the world’s deepest thinkers on religion and the challenges of modern life. He died last week after a short battle with cance...
[Unedited] Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks with Krista Tippett
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rabbi Sacks was one of the world’s deepest thinkers on religion and the challenges of modern life. He died last week after a short battle with cance...
Karen Murphy — The Long View, II: On Who We Can Become
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We are called to consider who we want to be as a people and what kind of world we will build with and for our children. Karen Murphy has been gatherin...
[Unedited] Karen Murphy with Krista Tippett
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We are called to consider who we want to be as a people and what kind of world we will build with and for our children. Karen Murphy has been gatherin...
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Oliver reads her poem, “Wild Geese.” This poem is included in our “Taking the Long View” playlist on Spotify, which we created to get gro...
Ars Poetica #100: I Believe by Elizabeth Alexander
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Alexander reads her poem, “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe.” This poem is included in our “Taking the Long View” playlist on Spotify, wh...
The Facts of Life by Pádraig Ó Tuama
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pádraig Ó Tuama reads his poem, “The Facts of Life.” This poem is included in our “Taking the Long View” playlist on Spotify, which we creat...
This is what was bequeathed us by Gregory Orr
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gregory Orr reads his poem, “This is what was bequeathed us.” This poem is included in our “Taking the Long View” playlist on Spotify, which w...
America the Beautiful Again by Richard Blanco
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Blanco reads his poem, “America the Beautiful Again.” This poem is included in our “Taking the Long View” playlist on Spotify, which w...
John Biewen — The Long View, I: On Being White
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. election will be over soon but this year has surfaced deep human challenges that remain our callings — and possibilities for growth — for...
[Unedited] John Biewen with Krista Tippett
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. election will be over soon but this year has surfaced deep human challenges that remain our callings — and possibilities for growth — for...
Rev. Otis Moss III — The Sound of the Genuine: Traversing 2020 with 'the Mystic of the Movement' Howard Thurman
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An hour to sit with, and be filled. Two voices — one from the last century, one from ours — who inspire inward contemplation as an essential part ...
[Unedited] Rev. Otis Moss III with Krista Tippett
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An hour to sit with, and be filled. Two voices — one from the last century, one from ours — who inspire inward contemplation as an essential part ...
Arlie Hochschild – The Deep Stories of Our Time
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After Arlie Hochschild published her book Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, just before the 2016 election, it cam...
[Unedited] Arlie Hochschild with Krista Tippett
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After Arlie Hochschild published her book Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, just before the 2016 election, it cam...
Jericho Brown – Small Truths and Other Surprises
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The poet Jericho Brown reminds us to bear witness to the complexity of the human experience, to interrogate the proximity of violence to love, and to ...
[Unedited] Jericho Brown with Krista Tippett
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The poet Jericho Brown reminds us to bear witness to the complexity of the human experience, to interrogate the proximity of violence to love, and to ...
From Poetry Unbound: Ada Limón — “Wonder Woman”
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’re happy to share the first episode of the new season of Poetry Unbound with host Pádraig Ó Tuama. This poem by Ada Limón tells the story of a...
‘Poetry Unbound’ Returns, With Wisdom For Living Now
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Poetry rises up in human societies in times of crisis when official words fail us and we lose sight of how to find our way back to one another; how to...
Craig Minowa & Cloud Cult — Music As Medicine
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Music is a source of solace and nourishment in the best of times and the hardest of times. It has been for so many of us in this year of pandemic, and...
[Unedited] Craig Minowa and Cloud Cult with Krista Tippett
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Music is a source of solace and nourishment in the best of times and the hardest of times. It has been for so many of us in this year of pandemic, and...
angel Kyodo williams – The World Is Our Field of Practice
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This prophetic conversation, which Rev. angel Kyodo williams had with Krista in 2018, is an invitation to imagine and nourish the transformative poten...
Living the Questions: Why 2020 hasn’t taken Rev. angel by surprise
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A companion conversation to this week’s On Being episode — Krista catches up with Rev. angel Kyodo williams on how she’s keeping her fearlessnes...
[Unedited] angel Kyodo williams with Krista Tippett
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This prophetic conversation, which Rev. angel Kyodo williams had with Krista in 2018, is an invitation to imagine and nourish the transformative poten...
Michael McCarthy — Nature, Joy, and Human Becoming
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“The sudden passionate happiness which the natural world can occasionally trigger in us may well be the most serious business of all,” Michael McC...
[Unedited] Michael McCarthy with Krista Tippett
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“The sudden passionate happiness which the natural world can occasionally trigger in us may well be the most serious business of all,” Michael McC...
Dario Robleto — Sculptor of Time and Loss
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dario Robleto has been called a sculptural artist, a philosopher, and a “materialist poet.” He works with unconventional materials — from dinosa...
[Unedited] Dario Robleto with Krista Tippett
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dario Robleto has been called a sculptural artist, a philosopher, and a “materialist poet.” He works with unconventional materials — from dinosa...
Marilyn Nelson — Communal Pondering in a Noisy World
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marilyn Nelson is a storytelling poet who has taught poetry and contemplative practice to college students and West Point cadets. She brings a contemp...
[Unedited] Marilyn Nelson with Krista Tippett
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marilyn Nelson is a storytelling poet who has taught poetry and contemplative practice to college students and West Point cadets. She brings a contemp...
Remembering John Lewis
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An extraordinary conversation with the late congressman John Lewis, taped in Montgomery, Alabama, during a pilgrimage 50 years after the March on Wash...
[Unedited] John Lewis with Krista Tippett
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An extraordinary conversation with the late congressman John Lewis, taped in Montgomery, Alabama, during a pilgrimage 50 years after the March on Wash...
Living the Questions: It’s really settling in now, the losses large and small
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pauline Boss joins Krista to ponder what it means to be living through a collective experience of “ambiguous loss” right now. This is a companion ...
Pauline Boss — Navigating Loss Without Closure
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pauline Boss coined the term “ambiguous loss” and invented a new field within psychology to name the reality that every loss does not hold a promi...
[Unedited] Pauline Boss with Krista Tippett
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pauline Boss coined the term “ambiguous loss” and invented a new field within psychology to name the reality that every loss does not hold a promi...
Vincent Harding — Is America Possible?
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vincent Harding was wise about how the vision of the civil rights movement might speak to 21st-century realities. He reminded us that the movement of ...
[Unedited] Vincent Harding with Krista Tippett
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vincent Harding was wise about how the vision of the civil rights movement might speak to 21st-century realities. He reminded us that the movement of ...
Isabel Wilkerson — This History is Long; This History Is Deep
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Go to the doctor and they won’t begin to treat you without taking your history — and not just yours, but that of your parents and grandparents bef...
[Unedited] Isabel Wilkerson with Krista Tippett
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Go to the doctor and they won’t begin to treat you without taking your history — and not just yours, but that of your parents and grandparents bef...
Eula Biss — Talking About Whiteness
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You can’t think about something if you can’t talk about it, says Eula Biss. The writer helpfully opens up lived words and ideas like complacence, ...
[Unedited] Eula Biss with Krista Tippett
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You can’t think about something if you can’t talk about it, says Eula Biss. The writer helpfully opens up lived words and ideas like complacence, ...
Race and Healing: A Body Practice
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem is working with old wisdom and very new science about our bodies and nervous systems, and all we conden...
Living the Questions: When no question seems big enough
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With our colleague Rev. Lucas Johnson, Krista talks through the question of what questions matter for this moment. Can anyone use the word “we”? ...
Gregory Orr — Shaping Grief With Language
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We often explore on this show the places in the human experience where ordinary language falls short. The poet Gregory Orr has wrested gentle, healing...
[Unedited] Gregory Orr with Krista Tippett
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We often explore on this show the places in the human experience where ordinary language falls short. The poet Gregory Orr has wrested gentle, healing...
Jacqueline Novogratz — Towards a Moral Revolution
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Moral reckonings are being driven to the surface of our life together: What are politics for? What is an economy for? Jacqueline Novogratz says the si...
[Unedited] Jacqueline Novogratz with Krista Tippett 2020
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Moral reckonings are being driven to the surface of our life together: What are politics for? What is an economy for? Jacqueline Novogratz says the si...
Samar Jarrah, Wajahat Ali, Sahar Ullah, et al. — Revealing Ramadan
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This year Muslims are experiencing a Ramadan like no other. The month is usually a period of both intimacy and great community. Now Muslims are improv...
Devendra Banhart — ‘When Things Fall Apart’
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this “spiritual book club” edition of the show, Krista and musician/artist Devendra Banhart read favorite passages and discuss When Things Fall...
[Unedited] Devendra Banhart with Krista Tippett
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this “spiritual book club” edition of the show, Krista and musician/artist Devendra Banhart read favorite passages and discuss When Things Fall...
Living the Questions: How can we balance connection with disconnection?
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To a question from listener Vanessa Parfett in Melbourne, Krista reflects on "Zoomzaustion" and relearning the primacy of our bodies. Also, how this h...