On Being with Krista Tippett

Lawrence Krauss with Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

09 Apr 2013

Contributed by Lukas

This is Krista Tippett’s unabridged interview with physicist Lawrence Krauss. One of the values of science is to make us uncomfortable says Lawrence...

[Unedited] Thupten Jinpa with Krista Tippett

21 Feb 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Esoteric teachings on reincarnation and consciousness; simple teachings on compassion and ethics. Geshe Thupten Jinpa is a man who finishes the Dalai ...

Thupten Jinpa — Translating the Dalai Lama

21 Feb 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Esoteric teachings on reincarnation and consciousness; simple teachings on compassion and ethics. Geshe Thupten Jinpa is a man who finishes the Dalai ...

[Unedited] Kabat-Zinn and Krista Tippett

27 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Kabat-Zinn has learned, through science and experience, about mindfulness as a way of life. This is wisdom with immediate relevance to the ordinar...

Jon Kabat-Zinn — Opening to Our Lives

27 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Kabat-Zinn has learned, through science and experience, about mindfulness as a way of life. This is wisdom with immediate relevance to the ordinar...

Kate Braestrup — A Presence in the Wild

13 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Braestrup is a chaplain to game wardens, often on search and rescue missions, in the wilds of Maine. She works, as she puts it, at hinges of huma...

[Unedited] Kate Braestrup with Krista Tippett

13 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Braestrup is a chaplain to game wardens, often on search and rescue missions, in the wilds of Maine. She works, as she puts it, at hinges of huma...

Robi Damelin and Ali Abu Awwad — No More Taking Sides

29 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Robi Damelin lost her son David to a Palestinian sniper. Ali Abu Awwad lost his older brother Yousef to an Israeli soldier. But, instead of clinging t...

[Unedited] Robi Damelin and Ali Abu Awwad with Krista Tippett

29 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Robi Damelin is an Israeli who lives in Tel Aviv. She speaks with community groups about her experiences as part of the Parents Circle – Families Fo...

[Unedited] Sherry Turkle with Krista Tippett

15 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Each of us, in our everyday interactions, chooses between letting technology shape us and shaping it towards human purposes, even towards honoring wha...

Sherry Turkle — Alive Enough? Reflecting on Our Technology

15 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Each of us, in our everyday interactions, chooses between letting technology shape us and shaping it towards human purposes, even towards honoring wha...

[Unedited] Pete Domenici and Alice Rivlin with Krista Tippett

25 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

A veteran Republican senator and Democratic economist are political bridge people who’ve brought differing approaches and shared love of country to ...

Sen. Pete Domenici and Alice Rivlin — Political Bridge People

25 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

A veteran Republican senator and Democratic economist are political bridge people who’ve brought differing approaches and shared love of country to ...

[Unedited] Jim Daly and Gabe Lyons with Krista Tippett

20 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Daly is president of Focus on the Family. He’s also a Christian radio broadcaster and author of several books, including ReFocus: Living a Life ...

Jim Daly and Gabe Lyons — The Next Christians

20 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Two Christian leaders are working to restore Christian engagement in the world. Gabe Lyons and Jim Daly discuss how they who are reshaping their part ...

[Unedited] Joanna Brooks with Krista Tippett

23 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Joanna Brooks is chair and associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. She’s also blogs at Religion Dis...

Joanna Brooks — Mormons Demystified

23 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

From “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” to CNN, Joanna Brooks has become a go-to voice during our national inspection of Mormonism in this presiden...

Fr. Alberto Ambrosio and Metropolitan Elpidophoros Lambriniadis — Spiritual Boundaries in Modern Turkey

02 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

The second show from our recent trip to Istanbul. We meet a Dominican friar whose Christianity is inspired by the mystical tradition of Islam. And, an...

[Unedited] Fr. Alberto Ambrosio with Krista Tippett

02 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Alberto Ambrosio is a Dominican friar and scholar of Sufism. Metropolitan Elpidophoros Lambriniadis is the Metropolitan of Bursa in the Ecumenical...

Terry Tempest Williams — The Vitality of the Struggle

19 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Terry Tempest Williams is a naturalist and writer, a biologist by training with a literary mind, who comes from a long Mormon lineage in Utah. She dra...

[Unedited] Terry Tempest Williams with Krista Tippett

19 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Terry Tempest Williams is a naturalist and writer, a biologist by training with a literary mind, who comes from a long Mormon lineage in Utah. She dra...

Mustafa Akyol — Religion, Democracy, and the New Turkey

12 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

There’s a country between Europe’s debt crisis and the Arab Spring, where democracy is valued and the economy is growing. It’s Turkey. Mustafa A...

[Unedited] Mustafa Akyol with Krista Tippett

12 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Mustafa Akyol is a Turkish columnist for the English-language Hürriyet Daily News. He’s also the author of “Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case...

Jacob Needleman — The Inward Work of Democracy

28 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Krista Tippett speaks with philosopher Jacob Needleman. As new democracies are struggling around the world, it’s easy to forget that U.S. democracy ...

[Unedited] Jacob Needleman with Krista Tippett

28 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Krista Tippett speaks with philosopher Jacob Needleman. As new democracies are struggling around the world, it’s easy to forget that U.S. democracy ...

Richard Davidson — Investigating Healthy Minds

14 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Neuroscientist Richard Davidson is revealing that the choices we make can actually “rewire” our brains. He’s studied the brains of meditating Bu...

[Unedited] Richard Davidson with Krista Tippett

14 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Neuroscientist Richard Davidson is revealing that the choices we make can actually “rewire” our brains. He’s studied the brains of meditating Bu...

Michael McCullough — Getting Revenge and Forgiveness

24 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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...

[Unedited] Michael McCullough with Krista Tippett

24 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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...

[Unedited] Ernie LaPointe with Krista Tippett

19 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

As some Lakota make an annual pilgrimage on horseback to Wounded Knee in memory of Sitting Bull’s death, we’ll pull out some of the lesser known t...

Ernie LaPointe and Cedric Good House — Reimagining Sitting Bull, Tatanka Iyotake

19 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

As some Lakota make an annual pilgrimage on horseback to Wounded Knee in memory of Sitting Bull’s death, we’ll pull out some of the lesser known t...

[Unedited] Vigen Guroian with Krista Tippett

05 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

An understanding of Easter from inside the Armenian Orthodox tradition that is at once mystical and literally down to earth. Vigen Guroian is a theolo...

Vigen Guroian — Restoring the Senses: Gardening and Orthodox Easter

05 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

An understanding of Easter from inside the Armenian Orthodox tradition that is at once mystical and literally down to earth. Vigen Guroian is a theolo...

Fatemeh Keshavarz — The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi

08 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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 langu...

[Unedited] Fatemeh Keshavarz with Krista Tippett

08 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

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 langu...

[Unedited] Nicholas Kristof with Krista Tippett

09 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Can journalism be a humanitarian art? New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has learned that reportage can deaden rather than awaken the conscious...

Nicholas Kristof — Journalism and Compassion

09 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Can journalism be a humanitarian art? New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has learned that reportage can deaden rather than awaken the conscious...

[Unedited] Tiya Miles with Krista Tippett

02 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Krista Tippett’s unedited interview with Tiya Miles, Chair and Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of ...

Tiya Miles — Toward Living Memory

02 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

For Black History Month: a MacArthur “genius” who’s unearthing an especially painful chapter of the American experience — the intersecting his...

[Unedited] John Paul Lederach with Krista Tippett

12 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when people transcend violence while living in it? John Paul Lederach has spent three decades mediating peace and change in 25 countries ...

John Paul Lederach — The Art of Peace

12 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when people transcend violence while living in it? John Paul Lederach has spent three decades mediating peace and change in 25 countries ...

Scott-Martin Kosofsky — Legends to Live By

15 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Could a Yiddish text from the Middle Ages serve as a guide to living now? Book composer and typographer Scott-Martin Kosofsky revives unlikely sources...

[Unedited] Scott-Martin Kosofsky with Krista Tippett

15 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Scott-Martin Kosofsky is a book composer, typographer, and author of “The Book of Customs.” Krista Tippett spoke with him on November 2, 2004 from...

Diane Winston — Monsters We Love: TV's Pop Culture Theodicy

01 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Amoral zombies. Loving vampires. Righteous serial killers. And lots of God. That’s all in the new TV season — a place where great writers and acto...

[Unedited] Diane Winston with Krista Tippett

01 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Diane Winston is the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication + Journalism at the University of Southern Californi...

[Unedited] Paul Raushenbush with Krista Tippett

17 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush is the Senior Religion Editor for the Huffington Post. Krista Tippett spoke with him on October 5, 2011 from the studios of ...

Paul Raushenbush — Occupying the Gospel

17 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush opens up a hidden but possibly re-emerging influence in the DNA of American Christianity, reaching back to the Social Gospel...

[Unedited] Avivah Zornberg with Krista Tippett_2011

06 Oct 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Avivah Zornberg is a celebrated, literary teacher of the Torah. We spoke with her on April 7, 2005, from the studios of American Public Media in St. P...

Avivah Zornberg — The Genesis of Desire

06 Oct 2011

Contributed by Lukas

What may one of the great literary teachers of Torah and midrash — the Jewish tradition of reading between the lines of the Bible to uncover hidden ...

Sari Nusseibeh — The Evolution of Change

15 Sep 2011

Contributed by Lukas

We experience a vision of caution and hope planted in a long view of Arab and Palestinian history, culture, and time in Palestinian philosopher Sari N...

[Unedited] Sari Nusseibeh with Krista Tippett

15 Sep 2011

Contributed by Lukas

We experience a vision of caution and hope planted in a long view of Arab and Palestinian history, culture, and time in Palestinian philosopher Sari N...

[Unedited] Hendrik Hertzberg, Serene Jones, and Pankaj Mishra with Krista Tippett

08 Sep 2011

Contributed by Lukas

In the days and months after 9/11, St. Paul’s Chapel became the hub where thousands of volunteers and rescue workers received round-the-clock care. ...

Hendrik Hertzberg, Pankaj Mishra and Serene Jones — Remembering Forward Ten Years after 9/11

08 Sep 2011

Contributed by Lukas

In the days and months after 9/11, St. Paul’s Chapel became the hub where thousands of volunteers and rescue workers received round-the-clock care. ...

[Unedited] Richard Mouw with Krista Tippett (Restoring Political Civility)

18 Aug 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Mouw challenges his fellow conservative Christians to civility in public discourse. He offers historical as well as spiritual perspective on A...

Richard Mouw — Restoring Political Civility: An Evangelical View

18 Aug 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Mouw challenges his fellow conservative Christians to civility in public discourse. He offers historical as well as spiritual perspective on A...

[Unedited] Paul Collins and Jennifer Elder with Krista Tippett

14 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

One child in every 110 in the U.S. is now diagnosed to be somewhere on the spectrum of autism. We step back from public controversies over causes and ...

Paul Collins and Jennifer Elder — Autism and Humanity

14 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

One child in every 110 in the U.S. is now diagnosed to be somewhere on the spectrum of autism. We step back from public controversies over causes and ...

Amahl Bishara and Nidal Al-Azraq — Pleasure More Than Hope

07 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know that the sacred city of Bethlehem lies within the West Bank? And, inside its borders, you’ll find something unexpected — a close-knit...

[Unedited] Nidal Al-Azraq with Krista Tippett

07 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know that the sacred city of Bethlehem lies within the West Bank? And, inside its borders, you’ll find something unexpected — a close-knit...

[Unedited] Amahl Bishara with Krista Tippett

07 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know that the sacred city of Bethlehem lies within the West Bank? And, inside its borders, you’ll find something unexpected — a close-knit...

[Unedited] Arlene Sanchez-Walsh with Krista Tippett

09 Jun 2011

Contributed by Lukas

A look back at the closest thing the early 20th century may have had to Oprah Winfrey. The flamboyant Pentecostal preacher Aimee Semple McPherson was ...

[Unedited] Anthea Butler with Krista Tippett

09 Jun 2011

Contributed by Lukas

A look back at the closest thing the early 20th century may have had to Oprah Winfrey. The flamboyant Pentecostal preacher Aimee Semple McPherson was ...

[Unedited] Margaret Paloma with Krista Tippett

09 Jun 2011

Contributed by Lukas

A look back at the closest thing the early 20th century may have had to Oprah Winfrey. The flamboyant Pentecostal preacher Aimee Semple McPherson was ...

Anthea Butler and Arlene Sánchez-Walsh — Reviving Sister Aimee

09 Jun 2011

Contributed by Lukas

A look back at the closest thing the early 20th century may have had to Oprah Winfrey. The flamboyant Pentecostal preacher Aimee Semple McPherson was ...

Yossi Klein Halevi — Thin Places, Thick Realities

12 May 2011

Contributed by Lukas

A new show from Jerusalem with American-Israeli journalist Yossi Klein Halevi, who says Jerusalem is a place where the essential human story plays its...

[Unedited] Yossi Klein Halevi with Krista Tippett

12 May 2011

Contributed by Lukas

A new show from Jerusalem with American-Israeli journalist Yossi Klein Halevi, who says Jerusalem is a place where the essential human story plays its...

[Unedited] Mohammad Darawshe with Krista Tippett

28 Apr 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Mohammad Darawshe is Arab with an Israeli passport — a Muslim Palestinian citizen of the Jewish state. Like 20 percent of Israel’s population, he ...

Mohammad Darawshe — Children of Both Identities

28 Apr 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Mohammad Darawshe is Arab with an Israeli passport — a Muslim Palestinian citizen of the Jewish state. Like 20 percent of Israel’s population, he ...

John Polkinghorne — Quarks and Creation

13 Jan 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Science and religion are often pitted against one another; but how do they complement, rather than contradict, one another? We learn how one man appli...

[Unedited] John Polkinghorne with Krista Tippett

13 Jan 2011

Contributed by Lukas

This unedited interview with John Polkinghorne was recorded in 2005 and is included in our show, “Quarks and Creation.” Science and religion are o...

Evolving "Faith"

30 Dec 2010

Contributed by Lukas

At the turn of the year, we look at how American culture’s encounter with religious ideas and people has evolved in the past decade — and this rad...

[Unedited] Darius Rejali with Krista Tippett

04 Nov 2010

Contributed by Lukas

One of the world’s leading experts on torture, Iranian-American political scientist Darius Rejali discusses, in particular, how democracies change t...

Darius Rejali — The Long Shadow of Torture

04 Nov 2010

Contributed by Lukas

One of the world’s leading experts on torture, Iranian-American political scientist Darius Rejali discusses, in particular, how democracies change t...

Doris Taylor — Stem Cells, Untold Stories

30 Sep 2010

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

[Unedited] Doris Taylor with Krista Tippett

30 Sep 2010

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Sharon Brous — Days of Awe

02 Sep 2010

Contributed by Lukas

We delve into the world and meaning of the Jewish High Holy Days — ten days that span the new year of Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur’s rituals o...

[Unedited] Sharon Brous with Krista Tippett

02 Sep 2010

Contributed by Lukas

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 Kip...

Jacqueline Novogratz — A Different Kind of Capitalism

19 Aug 2010

Contributed by Lukas

The devastation of the Haiti earthquakes and the lack of infrastructure for responding to the disaster have deepened an ongoing debate over foreign ai...

[Unedited] Jacqueline Novogratz with Krista Tippett

19 Aug 2010

Contributed by Lukas

The devastation of the Haiti earthquakes and the lack of infrastructure for responding to the disaster have deepened an ongoing debate over foreign ai...

Bill McKibben — The Moral Math of Climate Change

05 Aug 2010

Contributed by Lukas

A conversation about climate change and moral imagination with a leading environmentalist and writer who has been ahead of the curve on this issue sin...

[Unedited] Bill McKibben with Krista Tippett

05 Aug 2010

Contributed by Lukas

We had to cut some great segments from Krista’s conversation with Bill McKibben. Here you can listen to it all, and tell us what you think of our ed...

[Unedited] Barbara Kingsolver with Krista Tippett

15 Jul 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Barbara Kingsolver describes an adventure her family undertook to spend one year eating primarily what they could grow or raise themselves. As a citiz...

Barbara Kingsolver — The Ethics of Eating

15 Jul 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Kingsolver describes an adventure her family undertook to spend one year eating primarily what they could grow or raise themselves. As a citizen and m...

Shane Claiborne — A Monastic Revolution

01 Jul 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Shane Claiborne is a leading spirit in a gathering movement of young people known as the New Monastics. Emerging from the edges of Evangelical Christi...

[Unedited] Shane Claiborne with Krista Tippett

01 Jul 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Shane Claiborne is a leading spirit in a gathering movement of young people known as the New Monastics. Emerging from the edges of Evangelical Christi...

Sandy Eisenberg Sasso — The Spirituality of Parenting

17 Jun 2010

Contributed by Lukas

More and more people in our time are disconnected from religious institutions, at least for part of their lives. Others are religious and find themsel...

[Unedited] Sandy Eisenberg Sasso with Krista Tippett

17 Jun 2010

Contributed by Lukas

More and more people in our time are disconnected from religious institutions, or find themselves creating a family with a spouse from another traditi...

Andrew Freear — An Architecture of Decency

03 Jun 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Auburn’s Rural Studio in western Alabama draws architectural students into the design and construction of homes and public spaces in some of the poo...

[Unedited] Andrew Freear with Krista Tippett

03 Jun 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Auburn’s Rural Studio in western Alabama draws architectural students into the design and construction of homes and public spaces in some of the poo...

Mercedes Doretti — Laying the Dead to Rest

15 Apr 2010

Contributed by Lukas

With an Argentinean scientist, we explore the human landscape of forensic sciences and its emergence as a tool for human rights. Doretti has unearthed...

[Unedited] Mercedes Doretti with Krista Tippett

15 Apr 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Mercedes Doretti is co-founder and senior researcher of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF). She received a MacArthur “genius” grant f...

Mayfair Yang — China's Hidden Spiritual Landscape

08 Apr 2010

Contributed by Lukas

A filmmaker and scholar gives us a parallel story to the ubiquitous news of China’s economy and politics. Mayfair Yang discusses the ancient and ree...

[Unedited] Mayfair Yang with Krista Tippett

08 Apr 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Mayfair Yang is Director of the East Asia Center at the University of California in Santa Barbara. She has produced two films about China and is the a...

[Unedited] Robert Wright with Krista Tippett

04 Mar 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Wright charts an intellectual path beyond the faith versus reason debate. He takes a relentlessly logical look at the history of religion, expo...

Robert Wright — The Evolution of God

04 Mar 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Wright charts an intellectual path beyond the faith versus reason debate. He takes a relentlessly logical look at the history of religion, expo...

[Unedited] Paul Davies with Krista Tippett

25 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Albert Einstein’s quip that “God does not play dice with the universe,” was about quantum physics, not a statement of faith. But he did ponder t...

[Unedited] Freeman Dyson with Krista Tippett

25 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Albert Einstein’s quip that “God does not play dice with the universe,” was about quantum physics, not a statement of faith. But he did ponder t...

[Unedited] Priyamvada Natarajan With Krista Tippett

25 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Albert Einstein’s quip that “God does not play dice with the universe,” was about quantum physics, not a statement of faith. But he did ponder t...

Freeman Dyson and Paul Davies — Einstein's God

25 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

Part two of this series delves into Einstein’s Jewish identity, his passionate engagement around issues of war and race, and modern extensions of hi...

E. Ethelbert Miller — Black and Universal

11 Feb 2010

Contributed by Lukas

A poet and self-described literary activist, E. Ethelbert Miller attended Howard University in 1968 — the age in which Black Power was finding its v...