On Being with Krista Tippett
Episodes
[Unedited] Richard Davidson with Krista Tippett
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Neuroscientist Richard Davidson is one of the central people who’s helped us begin to see inside our brains. His work has illuminated the rich inter...
Richard Davidson — A Neuroscientist on Love and Learning
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Neuroscientist Richard Davidson is one of the central people who’s helped us begin to see inside our brains. His work has illuminated the rich inter...
Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
07 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
She has called Brain Pickings, her invention and labor of love, a “human-powered discovery engine for interestingness.” What Maria Popova really d...
[Unedited] Maria Popova with Krista Tippett
07 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
She has called Brain Pickings, her invention and labor of love, a “human-powered discovery engine for interestingness.” What Maria Popova really d...
[Unedited] Claudia Rankine with Krista Tippett
10 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The poet, essayist, and playwright Claudia Rankine says every conversation about race doesn’t need to be about racism. But she says all of us — an...
Claudia Rankine — How Can I Say This So We Can Stay in This Car Together?
10 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The poet, essayist, and playwright Claudia Rankine says every conversation about race doesn’t need to be about racism. But she says all of us — an...
[Unedited] Maira Kalman with Krista Tippett
03 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
To be in conversation with Maira Kalman is like wandering into one of her cartoons in The New Yorker. Millions have been prompted to smile and think b...
Maira Kalman — Daily Things to Fall in Love With
03 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and illustrator Maira Kalman is well known for her books for children and adults, her love of dogs, and her “New Yorker” covers. Her words ...
Walter Brueggemann — The Prophetic Imagination
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The great scholar and preacher. “The task is reframing so that we can re-experience the social realities that are right in front of us, from a diffe...
Rebecca Traister and Avi Klein — #MeToo Through a Solutions Lens
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The feminist journalist and the psychotherapist. “It’s partners and lovers and spouses…fathers and brothers and sons and friends.” The differe...
[Unedited] Rebecca Traister and Avi Klein with Krista Tippett
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The feminist journalist and the psychotherapist. “It’s partners and lovers and spouses…fathers and brothers and sons and friends.” The differe...
Living the Questions: What does civility actually mean, and is it enough?
03 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A question from Kevin: “I have been hearing a lot of deconstruction of the word ‘civility.’ The debate around this word has become, like so many...
[Unedited] Pico Iyer with Krista Tippett
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Absorption as a definition of happiness. “To bring that calm into the motion, the commotion of the world.” Traveling not in order to move around b...
Pico Iyer — The Urgency of Slowing Down
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Absorption as a definition of happiness. “To bring that calm into the motion, the commotion of the world.” Traveling not in order to move around b...
Anand Giridharadas — When the Market Is Our Only Language
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We Americans revere the creation of wealth. Anand Giridharadas wants us to examine this and how it shapes our life together. This is a challenging con...
[Unedited] Anand Giridharadas with Krista Tippett
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We Americans revere the creation of wealth. Anand Giridharadas wants us to examine this and how it shapes our life together. This is a challenging con...
[Unedited] James Doty with Krista Tippett
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A brain surgeon. “The brain is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.” The science of compassion. The baggage of evolution. The two wa...
James Doty — The Magic Shop of the Brain
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A brain surgeon. “The brain is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.” The science of compassion. The baggage of evolution. The two wa...
Tracy K. Smith — love is a language / Few practice, but all, or near all speak
01 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. Poet Laureate. “There’s this whole other narrative unfolding.” How history “which once felt so remote, feels closer and active and un...
[Unedited] Tracy K. Smith with Krista Tippett
01 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. Poet Laureate. “There’s this whole other narrative unfolding.” How history “which once felt so remote, feels closer and active and un...
[Unedited] Mirabai Bush with Krista Tippett
25 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Co-creator of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. “There is a calming, quieting, centering practice that leads to insight in every traditi...
Mirabai Bush — Contemplation, Life, and Work
25 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Co-creator of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. “There is a calming, quieting, centering practice that leads to insight in every traditi...
David Whyte — Poetry from the On Being Gathering (Closing Words)
15 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“The sense of having walked from far inside yourself / out into the revelation, to have risked yourself / for something that seemed to stand both in...
[Unedited] Sally Kohn and Erick Erickson with Krista Tippett
11 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“People believe things that are mutually contradictory; I think we all do. I know I do.” — Erick Erickson Earlier this year, the University of M...
Sally Kohn and Erick Erickson — Relationship Across Rupture
11 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you call your Internet trolls. The peril of forgetting our next door neighbors. “You don’t have to love people to not hate them....
Living the Questions: Can conversation make any difference at a moment like this?
08 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Conversation is not just about words passing between mouths and ears. It’s about shared life. Listening is about bringing our lives into conversati...
Poetry From the On Being Gathering — John Paul Lederach
01 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A series of haikus from peacemaker John Paul Lederach on the fourth day of our On Being Gathering. This year, we were thrilled to host our very first ...
Frances Kissling — What Is Good in the Position of the Other
27 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
From abortion activist to bridge person. Questions to break out of intractable polarization. Wisdom beyond the news cycle. “What is it in your own p...
[Unedited] Frances Kissling with Krista Tippett
27 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
From abortion activist to bridge person. Questions to break out of intractable polarization. Wisdom beyond the news cycle. “What is it in your own p...
Poetry From the On Being Gathering — Marilyn Nelson
24 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A morning of poetry with Marilyn Nelson from the third day of our On Being Gathering. This year, we were thrilled to host our very first On Being Gath...
Seth Godin — Life, the Internet, and Everything
20 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“We are flying too low. We built this universe, this technology, these connections, this society, and all we can do with it is make junk? All we can...
[Unedited] Seth Godin with Krista Tippett
20 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“We are flying too low. We built this universe, this technology, these connections, this society, and all we can do with it is make junk? All we can...
Poetry from the On Being Gathering — Naomi Shihab Nye
17 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A morning of poetry with Naomi Shihab Nye from the second day of our On Being Gathering. This year, we were thrilled to host our very first On Being G...
Poetry From the On Being Gathering — David Whyte (Opening Night)
10 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An evening of poetry with David Whyte from the first day of our On Being Gathering. This year, we were thrilled to host our very first On Being Gather...
Mahzarin Banaji — The Mind Is a Difference-Seeking Machine
23 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An architect of the science of implicit bias. How our conscious minds are ahead of our less conscious minds. Letting go of “I’m a bad human being”...
[Unedited] Mahzarin Banaji with Krista Tippett
23 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The science of implicit bias is one of the most promising fields for animating the human change that makes social change possible. The social psycholo...
[Unedited] Alan Rabinowitz with Krista Tippett
16 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How to get to the heart of the human experience without speaking? This question drove Alan Rabinowitz, after a childhood with a severe stutter, to bec...
Alan Rabinowitz — We Are All Wildlife
16 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How to get to the heart of the human experience without speaking? This question drove Alan Rabinowitz, after a childhood with a severe stutter, to bec...
“Motherless Child” performed by Joe Carter
13 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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“Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen” performed by Joe Carter
13 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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“Wade in the Water” performed by Joe Carter
13 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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“Steal Away” performed by Joe Carter
13 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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“Let the Work That I’ve Done Speak for Me” performed by Joe Carter
13 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” performed by Joe Carter
13 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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[Unedited] Joe Carter with Krista Tippett
09 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An exuberant experience of conversation and singing. There are nearly 5,000 spirituals in existence. Their organizing concept is not the melody of Eur...
Joe Carter — The Spirituals
09 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Magic, shining songs.” Reaching back to the ancestors. How do we survive when the worst happens? Transcendence and code: “Steal Away,” “Swi...
Living the Questions with Krista Tippett — #4
06 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How can we embrace vulnerability in ourselves and in our culture?Krista reflects on how vulnerability can bring us closer to ourselves and each other....
Living the Questions with Krista Tippett — #3
30 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“If my kids ever said ‘I’m bored,’ I would say, ‘That is great. I’m so glad to hear that. Maybe you’re gonna get creative right now.’...
Cory Booker — Civic Spiritual Evolution
26 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. Senator. From merely tolerating each other to manifesting love. “Hope confronts.” Self-care in a world “so elegantly designed to distra...
[Unedited] Cory Booker with Krista Tippett
26 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We don’t really reward or allow our politicians, good or bad, to be searching, or to change their minds and grow — to admit their human frailty. S...
Living the Questions with Krista Tippett — #2
23 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How can we help young people feel like they have a voice in the world?Krista reflects on the voice and agency of young people and the importance of fo...
Living the Questions with Krista Tippett — #1
16 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How can we stay present to what’s happening in the world without giving in to despair and hopelessness?Good conversation is an adventure. A few week...
[Unedited] Yo-Yo Ma with Krista Tippett
05 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The great cellist Yo-Yo Ma is a citizen artist and a forensic musicologist, decoding the work of musical creators across time and space. In his art, Y...
Yo-Yo Ma — Music Happens Between the Notes
05 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The great cellist shares his philosophy of living. Turning fear into joy. Performance as hospitality and communal witnessing. Beauty as a transfer of ...
[Unedited] Lyndsey Stonebridge with Krista Tippett
21 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nothing is helping us more right now, as we watch human tragedies unfold on the U.S.-Mexican border and elsewhere, than a conversation Krista had last...
The Moral World in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt for Now — Lyndsey Stonebridge
21 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nothing is helping us more right now, as we watch human tragedies unfold on the U.S.-Mexican border and elsewhere, than a conversation Krista had last...
[Unedited] Maria Shriver with Krista Tippett
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Shriver’s life is often summarized in fairy tale terms. A child of the Kennedy clan in the Camelot aura of the early 1960s. Daughter of Eunice...
Maria Shriver — Finding My “I Am”
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Shriver’s life is often summarized in fairy tale terms. A child of the Kennedy clan in the Camelot aura of the early 1960s. Daughter of Eunice...
[Unedited] Elizabeth Gilbert with Krista Tippett
24 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Her name is synonymous with her fantastically best-selling memoir “Eat Pray Love.” But through the disorienting process of becoming a celebrity, E...
Elizabeth Gilbert — Choosing Curiosity Over Fear
24 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Her name is synonymous with her fantastically best-selling memoir “Eat Pray Love.” But through the disorienting process of becoming a celebrity, E...
john a. powell — Opening to the Question of Belonging
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Race is a little bit like gravity,” john powell says: experienced by all, understood by few. He is a refreshing, redemptive thinker who counsels ...
[Unedited] john a. powell with Krista Tippett
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Race is a little bit like gravity,” john powell says: experienced by all, understood by few. He is a refreshing, redemptive thinker who counsels ...
Introducing The On Being Project
07 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to be human? How do we want to live? Who will we be to each other? These questions have been at the heart of On Being from the start...
This Is Your Brain on Sex
05 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropologist Helen Fisher explores the biological workings of our intimate passions, the brew of chemicals, hormones, and neurotransmitters that mak...
[Unedited] Helen Fisher with Krista Tippett
05 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Anthropologist Helen Fisher explores the biological workings of our intimate passions, the brew of chemicals, hormones, and neurotransmitters that mak...
[Unedited] Maria Popova and Natalie Batalha with Krista Tippett
29 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A literary thinker with a “telescopic view of time”; an astrophysicist with an eye to “cultural evolution towards good.” What unfolds between ...
Maria Popova and Natalie Batalha — Cosmic Imagining, Civic Pondering
29 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A literary thinker with a “telescopic view of time”; an astrophysicist with an eye to “cultural evolution towards good.” What unfolds between ...
[Unedited] Parker Palmer with Krista Tippett
22 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We’re fluent in the languages of psychology and medication, but the word “depression” does not do justice to this human experience. Depression i...
Naomi Shihab Nye — Your Life Is a Poem
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“When you’re in a very quiet place, when you’re remembering, when you’re savoring an image, when you’re allowing your mind calmly to leap fr...
[Unedited] Nathalie Joachim with Krista Tippett
08 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Flutist and vocalist Nathalie Joachim is a magnetic voice of one of the unexpected aspects of our globalized world — new generations reclaiming and ...
Nathalie Joachim — Song of Haiti’s Women
08 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Flutist and vocalist Nathalie Joachim is a magnetic voice of one of the unexpected aspects of our globalized world — new generations reclaiming and ...
[Unedited] Stephen Batchelor with Krista Tippett 2018
01 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Batchelor’s secular Buddhism speaks to the mystery and vitality of spiritual life in every form. For him, secularism opens to doubt and ques...
Stephen Batchelor — Wondrous Doubt
01 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Batchelor’s secular Buddhism speaks to the mystery and vitality of spiritual life in every form. For him, secularism opens to doubt and ques...
Sylvia Earle — Her Deepness
22 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Oceanographer Sylvia Earle was the first person to walk solo on the bottom of the sea, under a quarter mile of water. She has watched humanity’s end...
[Unedited] Sylvia Earle with Krista Tippett
22 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Oceanographer Sylvia Earle was the first person to walk solo on the bottom of the sea, under a quarter mile of water. She has watched humanity’s end...
Rubén Blades, Ashley C. Ford, David Greene, et al. — This Movie Changed Me
14 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Movies delight and inspire and repel. They’re places the big questions we take up at On Being land in the heart of our lives. They change our lives ...
Sarah Bassin and Abdullah Antepli — Holy Envy
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The tensions of our time are well-known. But there are stories that are not being told, because they are not violent and not shouting to be heard. One...
[Unedited] Sarah Bassin and Abdullah Antepli with Krista Tippett
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The tensions of our time are well-known. But there are stories that are not being told, because they are not violent and not shouting to be heard. One...
[Unedited] Mary Karr with Krista Tippett
25 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.” Mary Karr has a captivating ability to give voice to what is funny in life...
Mary Karr — Astonished by the Human Comedy
25 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.” Mary Karr has a captivating ability to give voice to what is funny in life...
[Unedited] Kevin Kelly with Krista Tippett
18 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“It’s very likely that the universe is really a kind of a question, rather than the answer to anything,” says philosopher technologist Kevin Kel...
Kevin Kelly — The Universe Is a Question
18 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“It’s very likely that the universe is really a kind of a question, rather than the answer to anything,” says philosopher technologist Kevin Kel...
Isabel Wilkerson — The Heart Is the Last Frontier
11 Jan 2018
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] Christian Wiman with Krista Tippett
04 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The poet Christian Wiman is giving voice to the hunger and challenge of being religious now. He had a charismatic Texas Christian upbringing, and was ...
Christian Wiman — How Does One Remember God?
04 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The poet Christian Wiman is giving voice to the hunger and challenge of being religious now. He had a charismatic Texas Christian upbringing, and was ...
Claire Danes, Ellen Burstyn, Tracy K. Smith, et al. — Stories About Mystery
28 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We often find ourselves talking to poets and writers about the vivid connections between art and faith. This special hour came out of a live collabora...
[Unedited] Adam Gopnik with Krista Tippett
07 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The wise and lyrical writer Adam Gopnik muses on the ironies of spiritual life in a secular age through the lens of his many fascinations — from par...
Adam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing Faith
07 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The wise and lyrical writer Adam Gopnik muses on the ironies of spiritual life in a secular age through the lens of his many fascinations — from par...
[Unedited] Anand Giridharadas and Whitney Kimball Coe with Krista Tippett
30 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
No challenge before us is more important — and more potentially life-giving — than that we come to see and know our fellow citizens, our neighbors...
Anand Giridharadas and Whitney Kimball Coe — The Call to Community in a Changed World
30 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
No challenge before us is more important — and more potentially life-giving — than that we come to see and know our fellow citizens, our neighbors...
[Unedited] Rachel Yehuda with Krista Tippett
09 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The new field of epigenetics sees that genes can be turned on and off and expressed differently through changes in environment and behavior. Rachel Ye...
Rachel Yehuda — How Trauma and Resilience Cross Generations
09 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The new field of epigenetics sees that genes can be turned on and off and expressed differently through changes in environment and behavior. Rachel Ye...
Ellen Langer — Science of Mindlessness and Mindfulness
02 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Her unconventional studies have long suggested what neuroscience is now revealing: Our experiences are formed by the words and ideas we attach to them...
[Unedited] Ellen Langer with Krista Tippett
02 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Her unconventional studies have long suggested what neuroscience is now revealing: our experiences are formed by the words and ideas we attach to them...
Jonathan Haidt — The Psychology of Self-Righteousness
19 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“When it comes to moral judgments, we think we are scientists discovering the truth, but actually we are lawyers arguing for positions we arrived at...
[Unedited] Jonathan Haidt with Krista Tippett
19 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“When it comes to moral judgments, we think we are scientists discovering the truth, but actually we are lawyers arguing for positions we arrived at...
[Unedited] Joan Halifax with Krista Tippett
12 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It’s easy to despair at all the bad news and horrific pictures that come at us daily. But Roshi Joan Halifax say this is a form of empathy that work...
Joan Halifax — Finding Buoyancy Amidst Despair
12 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It’s easy to despair at all the bad news and horrific pictures that come at us daily. But Roshi Joan Halifax says this is a form of empathy that wor...
Lisa Randall — Dark Matter, Dinosaurs, and Extra Dimensions
28 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“When it comes to the world around us,” Lisa Randall has written, “is there any choice but to explore?” As one of the most influential theoret...
[Unedited] Lisa Randall with Krista Tippett
28 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“When it comes to the world around us,” Lisa Randall has written, “is there any choice but to explore?” As one of the most influential theoret...