APM: Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett Podcast
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American Public Media's Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett is public radio's weekly conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas. Speaking of Faith does not always have religion itself as a subject. Week after week, it grapples with themes of civic life -- asking how perspectives of faith might distinctively inform and illuminate our public reflection. The Speaking of Faith podcast contains each week's program in its entirety and is updated every Thursday.
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Learning, Doing, Being - A New Science of Education (November 19, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Nov 19, 2009
Neuroscientist Adele Diamond is helping to bring unfolding knowledge about the brain into classrooms and educational systems, and in the process she's challenging fundamental 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.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | Unedited Interview with Adele Diamond
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Nov 19, 2009
An SOF Unheard Cut from a hotel room in Vancouver - Krista and Diamond met face-to-face to discuss education, cognitive neuroscience, the importance of play, and more. Here's your chance to be in the room and listen to it all.
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The "Happiest" Man in the World - Meeting Matthieu Ricard (November 12, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Nov 12, 2009
A renowned Buddhist teacher and author, Matthieu Ricard trained as a cell biologist and is now part of the Dalai Lama's ongoing dialogue with scientists. We'll explore why hes been called "the happiest man in the world," and how he understands spirituality as "contemplative science."
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | Unedited Interview with Matthieu Ricard
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Nov 12, 2009
An SOF Unheard Cut from a hotel room in Vancouver -- Krista and Ricard met face-to-face to discuss meditation, happiness, compassion, and more. Here's your chance to be in the room and listen to it all.
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SOF SPECIAL (audio) | The Fall of the Wall, JFK's Assassination, and Two Birthdays
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Mon, Nov 09, 2009
In the 1980's, long before she started airing conversations about religion and ethics in human life on Speaking of Faith, 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.
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The Freelance Monotheism of Karen Armstrong (November 5, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Nov 05, 2009
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.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | Unedited Interview with Karen Armstrong
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Nov 05, 2009
As part of SOF Unheard Cuts, Krista speaks with Karen Armstrong, a best-selling author, scholar, and Catholic nun. Hear their complete conversation as Armstrong tells the story behind her developing ideas about God.
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Stem Cells, Untold Stories (October 29, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Oct 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 and into an unfolding frontier where science is learning how stem cells work reparatively in every body at every age.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | Unedited Interview with Doris Taylor
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Oct 29, 2009
In this SOF Unheard Cut, Krista speaks with Doris Taylor, the director of the Center for Cardiovascular Repair at the University of Minnesota. They speak about the science of stem cells and their regenerative/reparative potential, and the ethics surrounding such work. This entire, unedited interview is included in the program, "Stem Cells, Untold Stories." Here's your chance to observe the editorial process and let us know what you think.
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Jaroslav Pelikan and the Need for Creeds (October 22, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Oct 22, 2009
For many modern Americans, the very idea of reciting an unchanging creed, composed centuries ago, is troublesome. But, the late Jaroslav Pelikan 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. We revisit Krista's 2003 conversation with him, as 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.
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Curiosity Over Assumptions - Interreligiosity Meets a New Generation (October 15, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
We shine a light on two young leaders of a new generation of grassroots Muslim-Jewish encounter in Los Angeles. They're innovating templates of practical relationship that work with reality, acknowledge questions and conflict, yet resolve not to be enemies -- whatever the political future of the Middle East may hold.
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The Power of Eckhart Tolle's Now (October 8, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Oct 08, 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 and our relationships in negative ways. And Tolle talks about spirit and God, and what those concepts mean to him.
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Language and Meaning - an Ojibwe Story (October 1, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Oct 01, 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.
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Living Islam (September 24, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Sep 24, 2009
Nine Muslims, in their own words, reveal a creative convergence of Islamic spirituality and American identity that is unfolding, largely unnoticed, in the United States. A lawyer turned playwright, a teacher who's a lesbian, a retired federal prosecutor -- all giving shape to the nature and meaning of Muslim identity, and sharing how tricky it can be to unravel Islamic religious tradition from the many cultural traditions.
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Day 29, Revealing Ramadan: Kari Ansari - Waiting for One More Ramadan
Author: Kari Ansari, Trent Gilliss, American Public Media
Sat, Sep 19, 2009
Our 29th voice is an American-born woman who says that her conversion to Islam has made her a better feminist. She is editor-in-chief of "America's Muslim Family Magazine" and lives with her husband and four children in suburban Chicago.
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Day 28, Revealing Ramadan: Saeed Purcell - The Last Ten Days
Author: Saeed Purcell, Trent Gilliss, American Public Media
Fri, Sep 18, 2009
Our 28th voice in this series is a man who converted to Islam more than 15 years ago. Saeed Purcell "passed through" other faiths before becoming a Muslim. The turning point is when he read Malcolm X's autobiography, which led him to read the Qur'an. He recollects one of his first Ramadans, when he spent the last ten days alone in a mosque praying and fasting and spiritually cleansing himself.
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The Inner Landscape of Beauty (September 17, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
The Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue was 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. In one of his last interviews before his death in 2008, he articulated a Celtic imagination about how the material and the spiritual, the visible and the invisible worlds intertwine in human experience.
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Day 27, Revealing Ramadan: Sakina Al-Amin - Sharing Qur'an and Samosas
Author: Sakina Al-Amin, Trent Gilliss, American Public Media
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
The 27th voice in this series is a young African-American woman who recently graduated from the University of Michigan. For the first nine years of her life, she was raised in a idyllic Muslim village nestled into the mountains of New Mexico, just north of Los Alamos. She shares two stories: one about celebrating Ramadan under the stars of the Southwest and the other of breaking their fast with three strangers at a dollar store.
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Day 26, Revealing Ramadan: Mary Hope Schwoebel - My Work Reflects My Beliefs
Author: Mary Hope Schwoebel, Trent Gilliss, American Public Media
Wed, Sep 16, 2009
Our 26th voice in this series was raised Presbyterian in Oxford, Mississippi and later moved to Philadelphia. But, with the social justice movements of the 1960's, her parents and she grew more secular. While in college, she began reading feminist authors, including a leading Muslim scholar on the veil, and a Somali man who embodied these principles. She later converted and is now a teacher and educator of peace conflict studies in Africa.
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Day 25, Revealing Ramadan: Miles Davis - A Father's Impact
Author: Miles Davis, Trent Gilliss, American Public Media
Tue, Sep 15, 2009
Our 25th voice grew up in inner-city Philadelphia and is now a professor at Shenandoah University in Leesburg, Virginia. Through the formative influence of his father, Islam provided the framework to escape the drugs and crime of most of his childhood friends. One of his first Ramadan celebrations also allowed him to see the many colors of Muslims he worshipped with. And now, decades later, his daughter is teaching him new things about faith during Islam's holiest month.
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Day 24, Revealing Ramadan: Hilarie Clement - A First Year Alone in Dubai
Author: Hilarie Clement, Mitch Hanley, American Public Media
Mon, Sep 14, 2009
On this 24th day of Ramadan, a teacher who grew up in Syracuse, New York and now lives in Chicago with her family. She recalls celebrating one of her first Ramadans, while teaching third-graders in Dubai, and how "scared" she was at first and how "horrible" her first day of fasting was. Like most other things in Islam, she says, it takes time to learn how to be a practicing Muslim.
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Day 23, Revealing Ramadan: Eli Smart - Ramadan in Dearborn
Author: Eli Smart, Trent Gilliss, American Public Media
Sun, Sep 13, 2009
The 23rd voice in this series, Eli Smart, grew up in California and converted to Islam in his early 20s. Now 37, he lives in Michigan -- along with his mother and family -- and says that Dearborn''s centralized Muslim community gives him a sense of what it's like living in a Muslim country during Ramadan.
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Day 22, Revealing Ramadan: Ilana Alazzeh - Singing in a Car
Author: Ilana Alazzeh, Mitch Hanley, American Public Media
Sat, Sep 12, 2009
Our 22nd voice in this series is Ilana Alazzeh, a student at Smith College in Massachusetts. Growing up in California, Texas, and Virginia, she talks about spending Ramadan with a family rich in religious diversity, and driving while singing Jewish and Christmas songs during Ramadan.
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Day 21, Revealing Ramadan: Anisa Abd el Fattah - Laughter and Tears
Author: Anisa Abd el Fattah, Trent Gilliss, American Public Media
Fri, Sep 11, 2009
Our 21st voice on this 11th of September is Anisa Abd el Fattah. She is an African-American woman from the Midwest who was raised in a family of Baptist ministers and converted to Islam 20 years ago. She's the founder of the National Association of Muslim American Women, and tells two Ramadan stories about an iftar faux pas and the beautiful recitation of her 7-year-old son.
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Revealing Ramadan - The Radio Hour (September 10, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
14 Muslims, in their own words, speak about the delights and gravity of Islam's holiest month. Through vivid memories and light-hearted musings, 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.
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Day 20, Revealing Ramadan: Muna Jondy - After Faith, It's Character
Author: Muna Jondy, Trent Gilliss, American Public Media
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
Muna Jondy is the 20th voice in this series. She's an immigration attorney who runs her own private practice in Michigan. Muna, who was born in the U.S., is one of nine children of immigrant parents. She says the simplicity of her faith streamlines her life, but that the society around her can make it difficult to raiser her children in an Islamic manner -- instilling values of kindness, consideration, and community.
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Day 19, Revealing Ramadan: Hussein Rashid - The Night of Power, and Imperfection
Author: Hussein Rashid, Mitch Hanley, American Public Media
Wed, Sep 09, 2009
The 19th voice in this series is Hussein Rashid, an Ismaili Shi'ah Muslim and professor at Hofstra University in New York. He recounts one of his favorite vigils of Ramadan, The Night of Power, and recites one of his favorite passages from the Quran, The Verse of Light.
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Day 18, Revealing Ramadan: Naazish Yarkhan - Celebrating Eid in the U.S. and India
Author: Naazish Yarkhan, Mitch Hanley, American Public Media
Tue, Sep 08, 2009
Our 18th voice is Naazish Yarkhan, a writer and editor who grew up in Bombay, India and now lives in suburban Chicago. She tells the story of celebrating Eids in her native country and how much more joyous it is now in the U.S.
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Day 17, Revealing Ramadan: Reuben Jackson - Support in Those Beginning Years
Author: Reuben Jackson, Mitch Hanley, American Public Media
Mon, Sep 07, 2009
On this 17th day of Ramadan, Reuben Jackson, an African-American man who converted to Islam in May 2001. In the years prior to his conversion, he immersed himself in Islam's sacred texts and memorized prayers by Yusef Islam -- Cat Stevens. His Ramadan reflection tells about the support he received early on from friends at his local mosque to trainers at the gym.
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Day 16, Revealing Ramadan: Parisa Popalzai - Ramadan in Indonesia
Author: Parisa Popalzai, Trent Gilliss, American Public Media
Sun, Sep 06, 2009
Our 16th voice is Parisa Popalzai, an Afghani-American woman who immigrated to California after the Soviets invaded her home country in 1979. She is an American Muslim who didn't grow up with Muslim friends and, in the process, began to lose her religious identity. Her year of studying abroad in the world's most populous Muslim country gave her a new perspective on the month of Ramadan, and her religious identity.
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Day 15, Revealing Ramadan: Ny'Kisha Pettiford - Who's in the Kitchen at Night
Author: NyAuthor: 'Author: Kisha Pettiford, Trent Gilliss, American Public Media
Sat, Sep 05, 2009
The 15th voice in this series is Ny'Kisha Pettiford, an African-American woman who works for a health care communications company. She grew up in a Christian household -- her mother Catholic, her father non-denominational -- and converted to Islam while in college. She talks about how her family celebrates holidays and the cultural warmth of her local mosque during the month of Ramadan.
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Day 14, Revealing Ramadan: Steven Longden - Suited and Booted
Author: Steven Longden, Mitch Hanley, American Public Media
Fri, Sep 04, 2009
Our 14th voice is Steven Longden, a Mancunian who converted to Islam in 1993. He tells the story of dressing up for prayers at a local mosque for one of his first Ramadans and his recollection of a beautiful recitation of the Qur'an. He also shares his own Arabic recitation.
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Yoga. Meditation in Action (September 3, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Sep 03, 2009
Yoga studios are cropping up on street corners across the U.S. Now there are 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.
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Day 13, Revealing Ramadan: Nadia Sheikh Bandukda - Breaking Fast in the Garment District
Author: Nadia Sheikh Bandukda, Mitch Hanley, American Public Media
Thu, Sep 3, 2009
Our 13th voice is Nadia Sheikh Bandukda. She is a self-described "by-choice conservative Muslim female born in America, who studied in Saudi Arabia and Teaneck, New Jersey." She recently graduated from college with a degree in political science and now works at a non-profit focused on immigration issues, and is at work on her first novel. Her Ramadan memory is set in New York's garment district, in a furniture store owned by her father.
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Day 12, Revealing Ramadan: Sabiha Shariff - An Awareness of Abuse and Domestic Violence
Author: Sabiha Shariff, Trent Gilliss, American Public Media
Wed, Sep 2, 2009
Our twelfth voice in this series is Sabiha Shariff, an Indian woman who grew up in Mumbai and has lived and worked in New Jersey for nearly 25 years. Now retired and living in Dallas, she is active in her Muslim community on issues of homelessness and domestic violence.
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Day 11, Revealing Ramadan: Nicole Queen - From Party Girl to Belonging
Author: Nicole Queen, Trent Gilliss, American Public Media
Tue, Sep 1, 2009
On this eleventh day of Ramadan, Nicole Queen, a native-born Texan who was raised Southern Baptist, speaks about the initial isolation of being a convert to Islam. While learning about the tradition, she found strength in the ideas and teachings of Yusuf Estes, a fellow Texan convert. Now in her late 20s, she is a practicing Muslim, active in her community in Dallas. She continues to photograph and blog about Islamic subjects.
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Day 10, Revealing Ramadan: Tayyaba Syed - Maybe Next Year
Author: Tayyaba Syed, Trent Gilliss, American Public Media
Mon, Aug 31, 2009
On this tenth day of Ramadan, we speak with a Tayyaba Syed. She's a Pakistani-American living in suburban Chicago. "In my faith," she wrote to us, "parents are highly regarded; we have to honor and respect them unreservedly and treat them with utter kindness." Her Ramadan story revolves around her father.
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Day 9, Revealing Ramadan: Feruze Faison - The Sweetest Sip of Water
Author: Feruze Faison, Trent Gilliss, American Public Media
Sun, Aug 30, 2009
Feruze Faison, our ninth voice in this series, grew up in Istanbul and now lives and teaches elementary school in New York. After an early marriage in the U.S., she met her current partner, a woman with whom she's raising three children. Her relationship is a source of estrangement between her and other family members. The Sufism of her native Turkey influences her personal faith and her memories of Ramadan.
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Day 8, Revealing Ramadan: Sahar Ullah - A Field Trip and McDonald's
Author: Sahar Ullah, Mitch Hanley, American Public Media
Sat, Aug 29, 2009
Our eighth voice in this series is a young woman from Florida who comes from a Bengali family. Sahar Ullah recently completed graduate work in Middle Eastern studies, and, here, shares a childhood memory about fasting during a field trip to a fast-food restaurant.
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Day 7, Revealing Ramadan: Adnan Onart - Ramadan in Dunkin Donuts
Author: Adnan Onart, Trent Gilliss, American Public Media
Fri, Aug 28, 2009
Today's story comes from Adnan Onart, a Turkish Muslim living in Boston, Massachusetts. He and his wife are active members of a Unitarian-Universalist congregation where, he says, they can best live out their Muslim faith. He recites his poem, "Ramadan in Dunkin Donuts," on this seventh day of Ramadan.
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The Ethics of Aid: One Kenyan's Perspective (August 27, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Aug 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 to abolish poverty and speed development in Africa.
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Day 6, Revealing Ramadan: Maria Romero - The Most Difficult Ramadan
Author: Maria Romero, Trent Gilliss, American Public Media
Thu, Aug 27, 2009
On this sixth day of Ramadan, we hear from Maria Romero, a Mexican-American lawyer living with her daughter in Seattle. She grew up Roman Catholic and married an Arab Muslim man. Only after their divorce did she convert to Islam. The Ramadan story she tells is one of pain and fortitude, one of isolation and new community.
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Day 5, Revealing Ramadan: Wajahat Ali - Ramadan Is a State of Mind
Author: Wajahat Ali, Trent Gilliss, American Public Media
Wed, Aug 26, 2009
Wajahat Ali, the fifth voice in this series, is a playwright who first trained as an attorney. He's a first-generation Pakistani-American who grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. Unlike our first Ramadan story, one of his fondest memories takes place outside the United States, in Mecca, with hundreds of simple gestures of kindness and beauty.
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Day 4, Revealing Ramadan: Allee Ramadhan - A Diabetic Celebrates in Other Ways
Author: Allee Ramadhan, Trent Gilliss, American Public Media
Tue, Aug 25, 2009
Allee Ramadhan was born a Muslim in the U.S. 65 years ago. Growing up bloack and Muslim meant, as he puts it, having three strikes against him before he got to bat. The father of 11 children, he recently retired as a federal prosecutor and lives in New York.
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Day 3, Revealing Ramadan: Yanina Vashchenko - A Gradual Transition to Islam through Ramadan
Author: Yanina Vashchenko, Trent Gilliss, American Public Media
Mon, Aug 24, 2009
Yanina Vashchenko, our voice for this third day of Ramadan, is a recent convert to Islam. She's 25 and emigrated from Russia to Dallas, Texas when she was eight years old. She grew up in the Russian Orthodox Church and spent several years as a non-denominational Christian. Here she shares several memories, including how the act of fasting and praying during Ramadan led her to declare herself officially Muslim.
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Day 2, Revealing Ramadan: Ibrahim Al-Marashi - Ice Cream and Fasting in Class
Author: Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Trent Gilliss, American Public Media
Sat, Aug 22, 2009
Ibrahim Al-Marashi, our second voice in Revealing Ramadan, is a scholar of modern history with a focus on the Middle East and political communications. His profile was heightened when an article he wrote in 2002 was plagiarized by the British and American governments to justify the invasion of Iraq. An Iraqi-American, he grew up and studied in California and has taught in the U.S., Turkey, and currently in Spain. The curiosity that took him to Madrid flows into the Ramadan story he likes to tell.
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Day 1, Revealing Ramadan: Samar Jarrah - Fasting in a Place Like No Other
Author: Samar Jarrah, American Public Media
Fri, Aug 21, 2009
Samar Jarrah, a Kuwait-born Palestinian-American, says there is no better place to celebrate Ramadan than in her adopted country.
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The Novelist as God (August 20, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Aug 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.
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Obama's Theologian: David Brooks and E.J. Dionne on Reinhold Niebuhr and the American Present (August 13, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Aug 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.
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Fishing with Mystery (August 6, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Aug 06, 2009
James Prosek is an artist, fly-fisher, author, and environmental activist 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 literally and artistically, by way of both angling and paint. We explore the sense of meaning and mystery he has developed along the way, including his concern with how we humans limit our sense of other creatures by the names we give them.
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Repossessing Virtue: Wise Voices from Religion, Science, Industry and the Arts (July 30, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jul 30, 2009
Last fall we began to conduct an online conversation parallel to but distinct from our culture's more sustained focus on economic scenarios. For in each of our lives, whoever we are, very personal scenarios are unfolding that confront us with core questions of what matters to us and what sustains us. We made a list of our guests across the years who we thought might speak to this in fresh and compelling ways.
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Repossessing Virtue: Parker Palmer on Economic Crisis, Morality, and Meaning (July 23, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jul 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.
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TV and Parables of Our Time (July 16, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jul 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".
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The Science of Trust: Economics and Virtue (July 9, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jul 09, 2009
In a few breathtaking months, we've culturally moved from seeing Wall Street as an icon of thriving civil society to discussing its workings with book titles like "House of Cards" and "Animal Spirits." As part of our ongoing Repossessing Virtue series, we'll talk to pioneering neuroeconomist Paul Zak. We look at what science is learning about trust, fair play, and empathy -- and what these qualities have to do with human character and economics.
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Play, Spirit, and Character (July 2, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jul 02, 2009
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.
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Fragility and the Evolution of Our Humanity - A Geophysicist's View (June 25, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jun 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.
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Joe Carter and the Legacy of the African-American Spiritual (June 18, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jun 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.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Ellen Williams on Focusing on Love, Family, and Being
Author: Ellen Williams, American Public Media
Fri, Jun 12, 2009
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. Ellen Williams experienced a health crisis at the same time the current meltdown was happening. She looks to the words of other writers from various fields as a way to understand and connect disparate events so that we can learn to love one another.
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The Long Shadow of Torture (June 11, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jun 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.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Lia Hadley on New Paradigms of Community
Author: Lia Hadley, American Public Media
Mon, Jun 8, 2009
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.
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Brother Thay: A Radio Pilgrimage with Thich Nhat Hanh (June 4, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jun 04, 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."
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Marc Mullinax on Fasting and "Holy Interruptions"
Author: Marc Mullinax, American Public Media
Mon, Jun 1, 2009
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.
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Obama's Faith-Based Office - Meeting Joshua DuBois (May 28, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, 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.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Emily Muschinske on Comedy as Spiritual Renewal
Author: Emily Muschinske, American Public Media
Mon, May 25, 2009
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.
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The Sunni-Shia Divide and the Future of Islam (May 21, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, 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.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Abeer Raazi on Remembering What's Important
Author: Abeer Raazi, American Public Media
Mon, May 18, 2009
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.
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Repossessing Virtue: Living Differently, Beyond Economic Crisis (May 14, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, May 14, 2009
A new installment in our ongoing series, Repossessing Virtue, bringing the voices of our listeners into the conversation we've been building online and on-air since the economic downturn began last year. Many are grappling with the shame that comes in American culture with the loss of a job, and many are seeking community in old places and new. For some, economic instability -- a kind of life on the edge -- is not new. They've been cultivating virtues of patience, self-examination, service and good humor that might help us all.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Careen Stoll on Dreaming and Feeling Needed as a Potter
Author: Careen Stoll, American Public Media
Mon, May 11, 2009
Careen Stoll, a potter living in Portland, Oregon, submitted an essay about his reflections on 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.
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The Spirituality of Parenting (May 7, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, May 07, 2009
More and more people in our time are disconnected from religious institutions, or find themselves creating a family with a spouse from another tradition or no tradition at all. 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, says the spiritual life begins not in abstractions, but in concrete everyday experiences. And children need our questions as much as our answers.
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Planting the Future with Wangari Maathai (April 30, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Apr 30, 2009
A riveting Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement -- a grassroots organization that empowers African women to improve their lives and conserve the environment through planting trees. 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.
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The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi (April 23, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Apr 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.
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Opening to Our Lives - Jon Kabat-Zinn's Science of Mindfulness (April 16, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Apr 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.
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Restoring the Senses: Life, Gardening, and an Orthodox Easter (April 9, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Apr 09, 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.
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Exodus, Cargo of Hidden Stories (April 2, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Apr 02, 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. We find meaning in the text that Cecil B. DeMille and Disney never imagined -- about the worst and the best of human nature, and the realities and ironies of human freedom.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Khalid Kamau on Gaining Time and Community in the Black Church
Author: Khalid Kamau, American Public Media
Mon, Mar 30, 2009
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. He talks about his free time as being an opportunity to reexamine his career, his role in the black church, and the status quo that remains within American society.
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Alzheimer's, Memory, and Being (March 26, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Mar 26, 2009
Our guest, 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.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Marie Howe on Greater Simplicity and Laura Ingalls Wilder
Author: Marie Howe, American Public Media
Mon, Mar 23, 2009
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.
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Laying the Dead to Rest: Meeting Forensic Anthropologist Mercedes Doretti (March 19, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Mar 19, 2009
With an Argentinean scientist, we explore the human landscape of forensic sciences and its emergence as a tool for human rights. Doretti has unearthed bones and stories of the dead and "the disappeared" in more than 30 countries, including victims of Argentina's Dirty War, over two decades. She shares her perspective on reparation, the need to bury our dead, and the many facets of justice.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Anita Barrows on Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary
Author: Anita Barrows, American Public Media
Mon, Mar 16, 2009
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. She also looks to poets like Rainer Maria Rilke and Pablo Neruda for ways of finding strength and compassion as we're called now to examine how we take care of each other.
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The Biology of the Spirit (March 12, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Mar 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. The three-pound human brain, he says, is the most complex structure that has ever existed on this planet.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Vigen Guroian on a Crisis of Imagination
Author: Vigen Guroian, American Public Media
Mon, Mar 9, 2009
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.
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Repossessing Virtue: Wise Voices from Religion, Science, Industry, and the Arts (March 5, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Mar 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.. As the economy has faltered, we've grasped to understand what went wrong, and how. But beneath economic explanations and remedies, these questions compel us to other kinds of reflection: On qualities of human nature that ultimately determine economies and markets; on qualities of humanity that we want to cultivate in ourselves and our children. How will we redefine what matters in this moment? Who will we be for each other?
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Nathan Dungan on the Moral Failure of Protecting Children and Ourselves
Author: Nathan Dungan, American Public Media
Mon, Mar 2, 2009
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.
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The Soul in Depression (February 26, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Feb 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.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Katie Ford on Poetry, Katrina, and Wasting One's Life
Author: Katie Ford, American Public Media
Mon, Feb 23, 2009
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.
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Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth (February 19, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Feb 19, 2009
As a theoretical physicist, Janna Levin probes whether the universe is finite or infinite. As a novelist, she explored the separate but parallel lives of two influential 20th-century scientists: Kurt Godel and Alan Turing. Their work laid the foundations for computer intelligence while challenging fundamental notions about how we can know what is true.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Majora Carter on Being More Deliberately Joyful
Author: Majora Carter, Kate Moos, American Public Media
Mon, Feb 16, 2009
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.
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Obama's Theologian: David Brooks and E.J. Dionne on Reinhold Niebuhr and the American Present (February 12, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Feb 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 influence they may play a role in the future of American politics.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Anchee Min on Repairing the American Individual
Author: Anchee Min, Rob McGinley Myers, American Public Media
Mon, Feb 9, 2009
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.
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Evolution and Wonder: Understanding Charles Darwin (February 5, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Feb 05, 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.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Sharon Salzberg on the Humiliation of Suffering
Author: Sharon Salzberg, Kate Moos, American Public Media
Mon, Feb 2, 2009
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.
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The Novelist as God (January 29, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jan 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.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Greg Epstein on Human Solutions and Not Divine Ones
Author: Greg Epstein, Rob McGinley Myers, American Public Media
Mon, Jan 26, 2009
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.
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The Buddha in the World (January 22, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jan 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.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: David Hilfiker on Strengthening and Liberating the Poor
Author: David Hilfiker, Kate Moos, American Public Media
Mon, Jan 19, 2009
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.
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Preserving Words and Worlds (January 15, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jan 15, 2009
We travel to a monastic library that rescues manuscripts from across the centuries and across the world. And there are worlds in this place on palm leaf and papyrus, in microfilm and pixels -- stories of ordinary life as well as the rise and fall of civilizations. We explore this 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. In their lives as in this work, the relevance of ancient manuscripts to people of the present, and the cultural cargo of the past itself, are revealed in a new light.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Esther Sternberg on the Economic Crisis in Biological Terms
Author: Esther Sternberg, Kate Moos, American Public Media
Mon, Jan 12, 2009
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.
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A History of Doubt (January 8, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jan 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.
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The Inner Lives of Children (January 1, 2009)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jan 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.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Joan Chittister on Christmas
Author: American Public Media, Joan Chittister, Krista Tippett
Mon, Dec 29, 2008
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.
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An Architecture of Decency (December 25, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Dec 25, 2008
Auburn University'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 in the United States. They're creating beautiful and economical structures that are unique in the world -- and that nurture sustainability of the natural world as of human dignity.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Shane Claiborne on Opportunity for Renewed Community
Author: American Public Media, Shane Claiborne, Kate Moos
Mon, Dec 15, 2008
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.
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Hanukkah and a Rediscovery of Jewish Customs (December 18, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Dec 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.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Rachel Naomi Remen and Economic Crisis as Spiritual Journey
Author: American Public Media, Rachel Naomi Remen, Kate Moos
Mon, Dec 15, 2008
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?
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Repossessing Virtue: Parker Palmer on Economic Crisis, Morality, and Meaning (December 11, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Dec 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.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Prabhu Guptara on Applying Personal Moral Sense to One's Work Life
Author: American Public Media, Prabhu Guptara, Kate Moos
Mon, Dec 8, 2008
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.
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The Ethics of Aid: One Kenyan's Perspective (December 4, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Dec 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.
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SOF FIRST PERSON (audio) | Repossessing Virtue: Martin Marty on Trust in Uncertain Times
Author: American Public Media, Martin Marty, Kate Moos
Mon, Dec 1, 2008
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.
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Listening Generously: The Medicine of Rachel Naomi Remen (November 27, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Wed, Nov 26, 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.
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The Sunni-Shia Divide and the Future of Islam (November 20, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Nov 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.
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Studs Terkel on Life, Faith, and Death (November 13, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Nov 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.
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Getting Revenge and Forgiveness (November 6, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Nov 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.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | Unedited Interview with Steve Waldman
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Nov 6, 2008
In this edition of SOF Unheard Cuts, Krista interviewed Steve Waldman, journalist and founder of Beliefnet, for "Liberating the Founders." Listen to their complete, unedited conversation. Here's your chance to observe the editorial process and let us know what you think.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | Unedited Interview with Vashti McKenzie
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Mon, Nov 3, 2008
In this edition of SOF Unheard Cuts, Krista interviewed Vashti McKenzie, first female bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, for "African American. Woman. Leader." Listen to their complete, unedited conversation. Here's your chance to observe the editorial process and let us know what you think.
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Liberating the Founders (October 30, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Oct 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.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | Unedited Interview with Paul Collins and Jennifer Elder
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Mon, Oct 27, 2008
In this edition of SOF Unheard Cuts, Krista interviewed Paul Collins and Jennifer Elder for "Being Autistic, Being Human." They talk about how life with their child who is autistic has deepened their understanding of human nature -- of disability, and of creativity, intelligence, and accomplishment. Here's your chance to observe the editorial process and let us know what you think.
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African American. Woman. Leader. Meeting Bishop Vashti McKenzie. (October 23, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Oct 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.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | Unedited Interview with Rod Dreher
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Mon, Oct 20, 2008
In this edition of SOF Unheard Cuts, Krista interviewed Rod Dreher for the second part of our series "The Faith Life of the Party." A 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. Here's your chance to observe the editorial process and let us know what you think.
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Being Autistic, Being Human (October 16, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Oct 16, 2008
One of every 150 children is now diagnosed to be somewhere on the mysterious spectrum of autism. We step back from the controversies about the causes and cures of autism and explore one family's experience with an autistic child. Jennifer Elder, an artist, and Paul Collins, a literary historian, have unearthed a vivid history of people grappling with autism, before it had a name. And they share what all of this is teaching them about what it means to be human.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | Unedited Interview with Amy Sullivan
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Mon, Oct 13, 2008
In this edition of SOF Unheard Cuts, Krista interviewed Amy Sullivan for the first part of our series "The Faith Life of the Party." She's a national corresponent for Time magazine, an Evangelical Christian, and an observer of the Democratic Party. Here's your chance to observe the editorial process and let us know what you think.
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The Faith Life of the Party - Part II, The Right (October 9, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Oct 09, 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.
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The Faith Life of the Party - Part I, The Left (October 2, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Oct 02, 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.
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Days of Awe (September 25, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Sep 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.
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The Origins and Impact of Pentecostalism (September 18, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Sep 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.
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SOF EXTRA (video) | The Myth of Order
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Tue, Sep 16, 2008
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.
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Yoga. Meditation in Action with Seane Corn (September 11, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Sep 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.
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Stress and the Balance Within (September 4, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Sep 04, 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.
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Fishing with Mystery (August 28, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Aug 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.
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Rick and Kay Warren at Saddleback (August 21, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Aug 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.
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The Power of Eckhart Tolle's Now (August 14, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Wed, Aug 13, 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.
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Living Vodou (August 7, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Aug 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.
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The Business of Doing Good (July 31, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jul 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."
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Play, Spirit, and Character (July 24, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jul 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.
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Recovering Chinese Religiosities (July 17, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jul 10, 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.
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Joe Carter and the Legacy of the African-American Spiritual (July 10, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jul 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.
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The Ethics of Eating (July 3, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jul 03, 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.
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Presence in the Wild (June 26, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jun 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.
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Sustaining Language, Sustaining Meaning - an Ojibwe Story (June 19, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Fri, Jun 20, 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.
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Pagans Ancient and Modern (June 12, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jun 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.
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The Spiritual Audacity of Abraham Joshua Heschel (June 5, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jun 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.
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Quarks and Creation (May 29, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, 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.
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Approaching Prayer (May 22, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, 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.
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The Spirituality of Addiction and Recovery (May 15, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Fri, May 16, 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.
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The Freelance Monotheism of Karen Armstrong (May 8, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public MeAuthor: dia
Thu, 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.
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Being Catholic, The Beauty and Challenge of - Hearing the Faithful (May 3, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Sat, 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.
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Planting the Future with Wangari Maathai (April 24, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Apr 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.
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Evangelical Politics: Three Generations (April 17, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Fri, Apr 18, 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.
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Brother Thay: A Radio Pilgrimmage with Thich Nhat Hanh (April 10, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Apr 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.
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The Spirituality of Parenting (April 3, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Apr 03, 2008
More and more people in our time are disconnected from religious institutions, at least for part of their lives. Others are religious and find themselves creating a family with a spouse from another tradition or no tradition at all. And the experience of parenting tends to raise spiritual questions anew. We sense that there is a spiritual aspect to our children's natures and wonder how to support and nurture that. The spiritual life, our guest says, begins not in abstractions, but in concrete everyday experiences. And children need our questions as much as our answers.
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Exploring a New Humanism (March 27, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Mar 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.
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SOF EXTRA (video) | Bach's Bible
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Tue, Mar 25, 2008
Johann Sebastian Bach's compositions, Dr. Thomas Rossin says, stemmed from his private faith - a faith evidenced by Bach's handwritten notes in his Bible. Hear about the Bible's nomadic journey and its possible influence of his "Mass in B Minor" - what the late, great scholar of creeds, Jaroslav Pelikan, holds up as an example of the "best we've ever done."
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The Need for Creeds (March 20, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Mar 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.
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Liberating the Founders (March 13, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Wed, Mar 12, 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.
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SOF EXTRA (video) | Beannacht
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Mon, Mar 10, 2008
Shortly before his death in 2008, the late Irish poet John O'Donohue recited his poem "Beannacht", meaning blessing, during an interview with Krista Tippett. We've woven his close friends' photographs of him in his Celtic landscapes with this reading. Produced by Colleen Scheck and Trent Gilliss.
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A New Voice for Islam (March 6, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Mar 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.
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The Inner Landscape of Beauty (February 28, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Sat, Mar 1, 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.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | [8 of 8] Poem: "The Nativity"
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Sat, Feb 23, 2008
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.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | [7 of 8] Poem: "Since You Came"
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Sat, Feb 23, 2008
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.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | [6 of 8] Poem: "For the Pilgrim a Kiss: Body Language"
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Sat, Feb 23, 2008
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.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | [5 of 8] Poem: "For the Pilgrim a Kiss: Between Things"
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Sat, Feb 23, 2008
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.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | [4 of 8] Poem: "For the Pilgrim a Kiss: The Caha River"
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Sat, Feb 23, 2008
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.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | [3 of 8] Poem: "Beannacht"
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Sat, Feb 23, 2008
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.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | [2 of 8] Poem: "A Blessing for One Who Holds Power"
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Sat, Feb 23, 2008
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.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | [1 of 8] Poem: "A Blessing for a Friend on the Arrival of Illness"
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Sat, Feb 23, 2008
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.
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Whale Songs and Elephant Loves (February 21, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Feb 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.
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No More Taking Sides (February 14, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Fri, Feb 15, 2008
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 to traditional ideologies and turning their pain into more violence, they've decided to understand the other side -- Israeli and Palestinian -- by sharing their pain and their humanity. They tell of a gathering network of survivors who share their grief, their stories of loved ones, and their ideas for lasting peace. They don't want to be right; they want to be honest.
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Reflections of a British Muslim Extremist (February 7, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Feb 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.
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SOF EXTRA (video) | A Musical Evening with Krista Tippett
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Wed, Feb 06, 2008
Krista Tippett gives a live performance on April 5, 2007 at the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota. Accompanied by Dan Chouinard and Marc Anderson, she reads from her 2007 book, titled "Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters--and How to Talk About It."
Yes, we're a radio program, but sometimes the visual helps -- especially when trying to envision the exotic instruments in the background!
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Remembering Forward (January 31, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jan 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.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | Unedited Interview with Douglas Johnston
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Wed, Jan 30, 2008
In this edition of SOF Unheard Cuts, Krista interviewed Douglas Johnston, president and founder of the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy. We're making the entire, unedited conversation available for the first time. Here's your chance to observe the editorial process and let us know what you think.
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Inside Mormon Faith (January 24, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jan 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.
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Discovering Where We Live: Reimagining Environmentalism (January 17, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jan 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.
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Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth (January 10, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, AmericAuthor: an Public Media
Thu, Jan 10, 2008
As a theoretical physicist, Janna Levin probes whether the universe is finite or infinite. As a novelist, she explored the separate but parallel lives of two influential 20th-century scientists: Kurt Godel and Alan Turing. Their work laid the foundations for computer intelligence while challenging fundamental notions about how we can know what is true.
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Diplomacy and Religion in the 21st Century (January 3, 2008)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jan 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.
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Listening Generously: The Medicine of Rachel Naomi Remen (December 27, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Fri, Dec 28, 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.
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The Wisdom of Tenderness (December 20, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Dec 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.
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The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi (December 13, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Dec 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.
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The New Evangelical Leaders: Part 2 - Rick and Kay Warren (December 6, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Sat, Dec 08, 2007
The second in a two-part series on influential leaders who are reshaping Evangelical Christianity from within progressive and conservative circles. The best-selling author of "The Purpose Driven Life," Rick Warren and his wife Kay lead one of the largest churches in the U.S. They are now partnering in global ventures to fight AIDS and poverty.
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SOF EXTRA (video) | The Homes and Voices of Mason's Bend
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Tue, Dec 04, 2007
Auburn University'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 in the United States. They're creating beautiful and economical structures that are unique in the world — and that nurture sustainability of the natural world as of human dignity. The iconographic structures of Mason's Bend have become synonymous with Sam Mockbee and the Rural Studio. We've put together a feast of images and voices from the people who live and work there.
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The New Evangelical Leaders: Part 1 - Jim Wallis (November 29, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Nov 29, 2007
Evangelical Christianity has no single, central authority, but it does have guiding figures in every generation. Progressive social activist Jim Wallis has become something of a national celebrity, proposing a new agenda for religion in politics in what he calls the "post-Religious Right era."
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | Unedited Interview with Andrew Freear
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Mon, Nov 26, 2007
In this edition of SOF Unheard Cuts, Krista interviewed Andrew Freear, director of Auburn University's Rural Studio in western Alabama. Here's your chance to listen to their entire, unedited conversation and observe the editorial process. And let us know what you think.
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The Heart's Reason: Hinduism and Science (November 22, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Wed, Nov 21, 2007
A rich global dialogue is taking place between religious thinkers and scientists of many disciplines. The global dialogue between science and religion often is obscured by headlines of a science/religion clash. V.V. Raman, a Hindu physicist, shares the ideals of his spirituality and insights from his study of physics.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | Krista's Commentary on Consumption and Sustainability
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Mon, Nov 19, 2007
Krista says the globe should welcome the challenge of sustainability as an invitation -- a way to strengthen moral resources such as delight, dignity, elegance, and hope:
Our emerging national conversation about sustainability has a decidedly "eat your spinach" tone. We're steeling ourselves to enter the realm of sacrifice, and penance. But as I've explored ethics and meaning in American life these past few years, I've been struck by the heightened sense of delight and beauty in lives and communities pursuing a new alignment with the natural world.
Innovation in sustainability often begins, I've found, with people defining what they cherish as much as diagnosing what is wrong. I think of Majora Carter. The cutting-edge project she founded, Sustainable South Bronx, began when she and the people of that borough began to reclaim their riverfront for refreshment and play.
I think also of the author Barbara Kingsolver, who found in a year of sustainable eating that when it comes to food, the ethical choice is also the pleasurable choice. And she says that as we face the grand ecological crises of our time, one of our most important renewable resources is hope. We simply have to put it on with our shoes every morning.
Recently we visited the Rural Studio at Auburn University in Alabama. There, architectural students build elegant homes and public spaces in poor communities. Long before sustainability was fashionable, the Rural Studio was innovating "zero-maintenance" design. This architectural philosophy shelters the body while honoring the environment and human dignity.
The writer Frederich Buechner has said that "vocation" happens when our deep gladness meets the world's deep need. I'd like to propose the work of sustainability as an unfolding vocation – not merely a response to problems, but an invitation to possibility and a way to strengthen moral resources such as delight, dignity, elegance, and hope.
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An Architecture of Decency (November 15, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Fri, Nov 16, 2007
We travel to western Alabama to the Rural Studio. Scattered across it are some 75 works of livable art — elegant, sustainable homes and public buildings in some of the poorest counties in the United States. They're the products of an architectural adventure. Here, architecture serves as a "social art" — and as a force for repairing the fabric of human community as well as the natural world.
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Money and Moral Balance (November 8, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Fri, Nov 9, 2007
Many of us are gearing up to spend more money than we actually have for the upcoming holiday season, which has deep roots in religion. We explore the turmoil many of us experience with money in our day-to-day lives — and how we might work towards a moral and practical balance for ourselves and the next generation.
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SOF EXTRA (video) | Krista's Interview with Nathan Dungan
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Mon, Nov 5, 2007
As part of American Public Media's "Consumed" series, Krista spoke with financial educator Nathan Dungan. He says that the U.S. -- and churches in particular -- have been complicit in equating consumption with success and happiness at the peril of our own morality. Watch complete, behind-the-scenes footage of Krista's in-studio conversation with Dungan in Studio P at Minnesota Public Radio on November 6, 2006.
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Burma - Buddhism and Power (November 1, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Fri, Nov 2, 2007
Former Burmese Buddhist nun and anthropologist Ingrid Jordt takes us inside the spiritual culture of Burma, exploring the meaning of monks taking to the streets there in September, the way in which religion and military rule are intertwined, and how Buddhism remains a force in and beyond the current crisis.
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Moral Man and Immoral Society: Rediscovering Reinhold Niebuhr (October 25, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Oct 25, 2007
Reinhold Niebuhr was a 20th-century theologian who had crossover appeal among religious and secular Americans. He's now being rediscovered as decision-makers on the right and the left ponder war, nation-building, and the relationship between politics and religion.
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Beyond the Atheism-Religion Divide (October 18, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Fri, Oct 19, 2007
In 1965, young Harvard professor Harvey Cox became the best-selling voice of secularism in America with his book "The Secular City." He sees the old thinking in the "new atheism" of figures like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. Cox says that either/or debates between religion and atheism obscure the truly interesting interplay between faith and other forms of knowledge that is unfolding today.
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The Body's Grace: Matthew Sanford's Story (October 11, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Mon, Oct 15, 2007
An unusual take on the mind-body connection with author and yoga teacher Matthew Sanford. He's been a paraplegic since the age of 13. He shares his wisdom for us all on knowing the strength and grace of our bodies even in the face of illness, aging, and death.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | Unedited Interview with Sharon Brous
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Fri, Oct 5, 2007
In this edition of SOF Unheard Cuts, Krista interviewed Sharon Brous, a Conservative rabbi in Los Angeles who is part of a Jewish spiritual renaissance. Here's your chance to listen to their entire, unedited conversation and observe the editorial process. And let us know what you think.
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Obedience and Action (October 4, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Oct 4, 2007
In over 50 years as a Benedictine nun, Joan Chittister has emerged as a powerful and at times uncomfortable voice in Roman Catholicism and in global politics. If women were ordained in the Catholic Church in our lifetime, some say, she should be the first woman bishop.
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Being Autistic, Being Human (September 27, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Sep 27, 2007
One in every 150 children is now diagnosed to be somewhere on the mysterious spectrum of autism. We step back from the controversies about the causes and cures of autism and explore one family's experience with an autistic child. Jennifer Elder, an artist, and Paul Collins, a literary historian, have unearthed a vivid history of people grappling with autism, before it had a name. And they share what all of this is teaching them about what it means to be human.
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Evolution and Wonder: Understanding Charles Darwin (September 20, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Sep 20, 2007
From the Scopes Trial to school board controversies in our day, Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution are portrayed as a refutal of the very idea of God. With Darwin biographer James Moore, we'll learn about the world in which Darwin formulated his ideas and why he delighted in the beauty of the natural world.
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SOF EXTRA (video) | "Animals at Play"
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Sun, Sep 16, 2007
Anyone who has a pet can testify that play is not exclusive to humans. And, in the wild, different species often are at odds. But, Stuart Brown witnessed something different. Here, he describes Norbert Rosing's striking images of a wild polar bear playing with sled dogs in the wilds of Canada's Hudson Bay.
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Surviving the Religion of Mao (September 13, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Sep 13, 2007
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 and in her writing, Anchee Min offers a window into spiritual instincts and experiences that mark a rapidly evolving China into the present.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | Unedited Interview with Dr. Mehmet Oz
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Wed, Sep 12, 2007
Krista's interview with cardiovascular surgeon Mehmet Oz for "Heart and Soul" underwent some merciless editing in order to fit our hour-long radio format. Here's your chance to listen to their entire, unedited conversation and observe the editorial process. And let us know what you think.
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Days of Awe (September 6, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Sep 6, 2007
We 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.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | Unedited Interview with Stuart Brown
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
Krista's interview with Stuart Brown for "Play, Spirit, and Character" underwent some merciless editing in order to fit our hour-long radio format. Here's your chance to listen to their entire, unedited conversation and observe the editorial process. And let us know what you think.
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Heart and Soul: The Integrative Medicine of Dr. Mehmet Oz (August 30, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Aug 30, 2007
The word "healing" means "to make whole." But historically, Western medicine has taken a divided view of human health. It has stressed medical treatments of biological ailments. That may be changing. Mehmet Oz, a cardiovascular surgeon, is part of a new generation of doctors who are taking medicine to new technological and spiritual frontiers.
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SOF EXTRA (video) | "Fellowship of the Rings"
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Mon, Aug 27, 2007
As part of our expanding SoundSeen series, we partnered with Jessica Roberts and the News21 Initiative at the Unversity of Southern California. Here, we expand on Stuart Brand's idea of play by showing you the traveling rings on a beach in Santa Monica. Not only do they offer great exercise and a chance to feel like Spiderman or Tarzan, but, some regulars say, the rings offer a unique spiritual practice that brings together their minds and bodies.
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Play, Spirit, and Character (August 23, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Aug 23, 2007
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.
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SOF EXTRA (slideshow) | "Vodou Brooklyn"
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Mon, Aug 20, 2007
As part of our SoundSeen series, photojournalist Stephanie Keith met a Vodou priest at a Buddhist interfaith event in New York. He invited her to photograph and experience the religious world of his Haitian culture. Ten ceremonies later, she offers her images and reflections on these late-night rituals.
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Religious Passion, Pluralism, and the Young (August 16, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Aug 16, 2007
We revisit Krista's 2005 conversation with Eboo Patel, who calls al-Qaeda the most effective youth organization in the world. But contrary to the wisdom of secular society, he's working to deepen rather than tame the religious energies of the young across many traditions. And he believes this may be our only chance for survival.
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Reviving Sister Aimee (August 9, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Aug 9, 2007
Twentieth-century Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson helped to popularize a charismatic faith that touched millions of people and now reaches an estimated half billion people. The eccentricity and integrity of Sister Aimee shed light on some of the most confusing and powerful religious currents in our world today.
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SOF EXTRA (slideshow) | "The Veil as Resistance: Muslim Women and Social Change in Egypt"
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Tue, Aug 7, 2007
As part of our SoundSeen series, photojournalist Diana Matar describes her exquisite series of images portraying a new generation of Muslim women in Cairo. These women are reclaiming and redefining the veil as a symbol of political dissent, piety, and fashion in contemporary Egypt.
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L'Arche: A Community of Brokenness and Beauty (August 2, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Aug 2, 2007
We make a radio pilgrimage into the world of L'Arche, communities formed around people with mental disabilities and others who share life with them. At the heart of the L'Arche movement is a religious idea of difference as normal and imperfection as a source of strength.
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Latino Migrations and the Changing Face of Religion in the Americas (July 26, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jul 26, 2007
With Salvadoran-American scholar Manuel Vasquez, we explore how religious and spiritual worldviews anchor Latino cultures and are reshaping North American culture in fascinating ways.
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The Ethics of Eating (July 19, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jul 19, 2007
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. What can climate change and sustainability really have to do my family's daily routines? Where does the food we eat come from? And why do we resist when the healthiest choices can be a delight?
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Stress and the Balance Within (July 12, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jul 12, 2007
Dr. Esther Sternberg works at the molecular level of the mind-body connection. The language of genes, neurotransmitters, and hormones, as she describes it, is helping science understand how our emotions and our bodies are connected -- why stress can make us sick, and loving and believing can help us be well.
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Marriage, Family, and Divorce (July 5, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jul 5, 2007
American ideals of courtship and marriage echo with Biblical imagery — "bone of my bones" "flesh of my flesh." But what does the Bible really say, and how has it been taught across the centuries in which the institution of marriage has changed dramatically? With a rabbi and a New Testament scholar, we explore nuances of biblical teachings about marriage, family, and divorce — the surprising ambiguities of the New Testament and the striking practicality of Jewish tradition across the ages.
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Living Vodou (June 28, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jun 28, 2007
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.
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A Spirit of Defiance (June 21, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Wed, Jun 20, 2007
A film based on Mariane Pearl's memoir, "A Mighty Heart," opens in theaters, with Angelina Jolie in the starring role. Pearl was married to the "Wall Street Journal" correspondent Daniel Pearl, who was murdered by Al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan. He was killed in part because he was American and Jewish. Mariane Pearl, a Buddhist, spoke intimately with Krista about making sense of her husband's murder and her spiritual ethic on what she calls the front line of the war on terror.
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Joe Carter and the Legacy of the African-American Spiritual (June 14, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jun 14, 2007
We celebrate the life of performer, educator, and humanitarian Joe Carter with his exploration in word and song of the meaning of the African-American spiritual. Before his death last year at the age of 57, he traveled the world and introduced the spiritual to audiences from Novosibirsk to Nigeria. He had a singular understanding of the religious sensibility of this music -- its hidden meanings, as well as its beauty, lament, and hope.
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Remembering Forward: Krista Tippett on Speaking of Faith (June 7, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jun 7, 2007
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.
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The Buddha in the World (May 31, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Wed, May 30, 2007
In an adventure of travel and thought across India and Europe, Afghanistan and America, Pankaj Mishra followed the legacy of the Buddha. He developed a provocative critique of modern politics, culture, and economics as he pursued the social relevance of the Buddha's core questions: Do desiring and acquiring make us happy? Does large-scale political change really address human suffering?
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The Soul of War (May 24, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, May 24, 2007
For Memorial Day weekend, we revisit Krista's 2006 conversation with Chaplain Major John Morris. He reveals his experiences of war and its imprint on a soldier's spirit. He offers practical guidance for veterans and civilians for the sake of our common life.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | "It Is Finished"
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Tue, May 22, 2007
In this Unheard Cut, Armenian Orthodox theologian Vigen Guroian offers an alternative ending to Mel Gibson' film about the Passion story.
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The New Monastics: Meeting Shane Claiborne (May 17, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, May 17, 2007
Shane Claiborne is an original voice, a creative spirit, in a gathering movement of young people known as the "new monastics." With virtues like simplicity and imagination, they are engaging great contradictions of our culture — beginning with the gap between the churches they were raised in, the needs of the poor, and the "loneliness" they find in our culture's vision of adulthood.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | 6 of 10 - Krista reads from her book, "Speaking of Faith" (May 15, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Tue, May 15, 2007
We've selected a series of passages from the writings of our very own -- Krista Tippett. Her new book, titled "Speaking of Faith," was released in March. In this bonus clip, Krista finds that dealing with terms such as faith and religion and spirituality can be tricky. She's interested in reclaiming the connotations of these words, as they are lived.
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Science and Hope (May 10, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, May 10, 2007
A conversation with South African Quaker and cosmologist George Ellis. He argues that ethics, like mathematics, is a part of the universe that we discover rather than invent.
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A History of Doubt (May 3, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Wed, May 2, 2007
The neglected story of the world's great doubters with Jennifer Michael Hecht, author of "Doubt: A History." In an age of strident religious and atheist voices, we'll explore how questioning, as much as certainty, has driven human life forward.
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The Private Faith of Jimmy Carter (April 26, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Apr 26, 2007
Jimmy Carter speaks of his born-again faith with a directness that is striking even in today's political culture. Hear his reflections about being commander in chief while following "the Prince of Peace"; about upholding the law of the land while privately opposing abortion; and about his marriage of 60 years as a metaphor for the challenge of human relationship both personal and global.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | 5 of 10 - Krista reads from her book, "Speaking of Faith" (April 25, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Wed, Apr 25, 2007
We've selected a series of passages from the writings of our very own -- Krista Tippett. Her new book, titled "Speaking of Faith," was released in March. In this clip, Krista deals with one of the more popular themes of our radio show: science and belief. Krista loves her conversations with scientists. Science, like religion, she says, is about questions more than answers.
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A New Voice for Islam (April 19, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Apr 19, 2007
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.
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SOF EXTRA (audio) | 4 of 10 - Krista reads from her book, "Speaking of Faith" (April 17, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Tue, Apr 17, 2007
We've selected a series of passages from the writings of our very own -- Krista Tippett. Her new book, titled "Speaking of Faith," was released in March. In this clip, Krista tells us how she came to take religion seriously after her tenure in Germany, and looks to her conversation with Karen Armstrong for some of the answers.
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The Evolution of American Evangelicalism (April 12, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Apr 12, 2007
Last month, conservative Christian leaders demanded that Richard Cizik be silenced or removed from his post. They charged that his concerns about climate change and torture have shifted attention away from moral issues such as gay marriage and abortion. But for Cizik, poverty, war, and the environment are moral issues too. We revisit Krista's 2006 conversation with Cizik that took many listeners by surprise.
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Mon, Apr 9, 2007
We've selected a series of passages from the writings of our very own -- Krista Tippett. Her new book, titled "Speaking of Faith," was just released in March. In this excerpt, Krista tells us how certain religious figures unsettled her political views of the world -- as did the people her politics were designed to save. She reads from the second chapter, "Remembering Forward."
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Restoring the Senses: Life, Gardening, and an Orthodox Easter (April 5, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Apr 5, 2007
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.
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Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Mon, Apr 2, 2007
We've selected a series of passages from the writings of our very own -- Krista Tippett. Her new book, titled "Speaking of Faith," was just released in March. In this excerpt, Krista connects memories of her grandfather's complexity with what it once meant to be an Evangelical Christian, and what it means today. She reads from the second chapter, "Remembering Forward."
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Exodus, Cargo of Hidden Stories (March 29, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Wed, Mar 28, 2007
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. We find meaning in the text that Cecil B. DeMille and Disney never imagined — about the worst and the best of human nature, and the realities and ironies of human freedom.
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Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Mon, Mar 26, 2007
We've selected a series of passages from the writings of our very own -- Krista Tippett. Her new book, titled "Speaking of Faith," was just released in March. In this excerpt, Krista reads from the first chapter, "Genesis: How We Got Here."
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Truth and Reconciliation (March 22, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Wed, Mar 21, 2007
South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission created a new model of national healing after a history of extreme violence. Two people who did the work of the commission -- Charles Villa-Vicencio, a white theologian, and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a black psychologist -- speak on the religious lessons and legacy of that process.
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Einstein's Ethics (March 15, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Wed, Mar 14, 2007
In the final episode of this two-part series, we delve into Einstein's Jewish identity, his passionate engagement around issues of war and race, and modern extensions of his ethical and scientific perspectives with theoretical physicist S. James Gates, Jr. and biographer Thomas Levenson.
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Einstein's God (March 8, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Wed, Mar 7, 2007
In the first episode of this two-part series, we use Einstein's science as a starting point for exploring the great physicist's perspective on ideas such as mystery, eternity, and the mind of God -- with theoretical physicists Freeman Dyson and Paul Davies.
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The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi (March 1, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Mar 1, 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.
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Sacred Wilderness, An African Story (February 22, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Feb 22, 2007
Isabel Mukonyora has followed and studied a religious movement of her Shona people, the Masowe Apostles, that embraces Christian tradition while addressing the drama of African life and history. The founder of this movement, Johane Masowe, emphasized an ancient Jewish and Christian pull to the wilderness. Through her stories we explore modern African spirituality, diaspora, and finding meaning, as Mukonyora says, "in the margins."
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Pagans Ancient and Modern (February 15, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Feb 15, 2007
Environmentalist Adrian Ivakhiv pursued the ecological impulse of Paganism, from its ancient roots to its modern revival in Europe and North America. He discusses his observations about the spirit of Paganism and its influence on everyday Western culture — and even on old-time religion.
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Children of Abraham (February 8, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Feb 8, 2007
Abraham is the common patriarch of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. His story spans dramatic territory of the modern world — both physical and spiritual — beginning in southern Iraq and ending in the West Bank city of Hebron. Journalist Bruce Feiler went in search of Abraham to understand the crises and possibilities of the 21st-century world. The story of Abraham, Feiler says, illuminates God and politics, sacred geography, and modern spirituality.
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Whale Songs and Elephant Loves (February 1, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Feb 1, 2007
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.
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Diplomacy and Religion in the 21st Century (January 25, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jan 18, 2007
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.
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The Biology of the Spirit (January 18, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jan 18, 2007
Author and surgeon Sherwin Nuland reflects on life by way of elegant detail about physiological realities. 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 spirit is an evolutionary accomplishment of the brain.
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Discovering Where We Live: Reimagining Environmentalism (January 11, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jan 11, 2007
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 — Majora Carter, a secular urban strategist unraveling ties between ecology and injustice as she strives for balance and beauty in the South Bronx; and Calvin DeWitt, a scientist and evangelical Christian who's been pioneering sustainability in the rural Midwest for three decades.
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Brother Thay: A Radio Pilgrimage with Thich Nhat Hanh (January 4, 2007)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jan 4, 2007
Zen master and poet Thich Nhat Hanh offers stark, gentle wisdom for living in a world of anger and violence. This hour we'll revisit my intimate 2003 conversation with him and with others who make use of his teachings in surprising settings. We'll explore the spiritual discipline of mindfulness, tangibly affecting suffering in the world by facing it in oneself and in others head-on.
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Approaching Prayer (December 28, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Dec 28, 2006
We explore creative and generous approaches to prayer in three very different lives: Hindu chant with musician Anoushka Shankar; poetry and "non-religious" prayer with translator Stephen Mitchell; and theologian Roberta Bondi on learning to pray with the Desert Fathers and Mothers. Also, a reflection on prayer by poet and memoirist Patricia Hampl.
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Planting the Future (December 21, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Dec 21, 2006
For the holiday season, a story of human activism, courage and hope. Krista speaks with Kenyan environmentalist and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai. Sitting in her remarkable presence, it is not hard to imagine that this woman stood up to a dictator and won, and that she has fought off encroaching desert by planting 30 million trees. Maathai speaks about the global balance of human and natural resources, and she shares her thoughts on where God resides.
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No More Taking Sides: An Israeli-Palestinian Story (December 14, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Dec 14, 2006
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 to traditional ideologies and turning their pain into more violence, they've decided to understand the other side — Israeli and Palestinian — by sharing their pain and their humanity. They tell of a gathering network of survivors who share their grief, their stories of loved ones, and their ideas for lasting peace. They don't want to be right; they want to be honest.
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Muslim Women and Other Misunderstandings (December 7, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Dec 7, 2006
Is our Western concern about women in Islam really a concern for the well-being of women? Is the veil a symptom of their problems, or ours? Our guest Leila Ahmed provides essential background and challenges Western thinking on these and other questions.
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Money and Moral Balance (November 30, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Nov 30, 2006
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 deep roots in religion. With family financial advisor Nathan Dungan, we'll explore turmoil many of us experience with money in our day-to-day lives — and how we might work towards a moral and practical balance for ourselves and the next generation.
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The Spirituality of Parenting (November 23, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Tue, Nov 21, 2006
"We want our children to be gracious and grateful, we want them to have courage in difficult times, we want them to have a sense of joy and purpose. That's what it means to nurture their spiritual life." For Thanksgiving, we bring back our conversation with Rabbi Sandy Sasso, who helps children and adults of many backgrounds discuss religion and ethics together.
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The Soul in Depression (November 16, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
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Nearly ten million Americans are diagnosed with clinical depression. And, as we have become more conversant about the disease, a body of literature has appeared by people who have struggled with depression and found it to be a lesson in the nature of the human soul. Krista engages some of these voices: author Andrew Solomon, poet and psychologist Anita Barrows, and Quaker educator Parker Palmer.
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The Heart's Reason: Hinduism and Science (November 9, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Nov 9, 2006
U.S. culture's clash between religion and science is almost exclusively driven by Christian instincts and arguments. Hindu physicist V.V. Raman offers another view of religion, the universe, and the complementarity of the questions of science and faith.
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America's Changing Religious Landscape (November 2, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Nov 2, 2006
The great public theologian and historian Martin Marty describes how religion in U.S. politics has been gathering narrative shape for decades. He offers wisdom, good humor, and a generous imagination about evolving religious dynamics in U.S. and global life.
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The Religious Roots of American Democracy (October 26, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Oct 26, 2006
Philosopher Jacob Needleman speaks on the spiritual and moral ideals of the American founders — and how these ideals resonate in our culture today. Democracy, Needleman says, is inner work, not just a set of outward structures.
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A Spirit of Defiance (October 19, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Oct 19, 2006
In this close-up look at the human dynamics of the war on terror, Mariane Pearl speaks about her husband, journalist Daniel Pearl, who was murdered in Pakistan shortly after 9/11. She talks about Buddhism, her ethic of spiritual defiance, and her hopes for the future.
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Globalization and the Rise of Religion (October 12, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Oct 12, 2006
Experts once predicted that as the world grew more modern, religion would decline. Precisely the opposite has proven true. Two leading thinkers, Boston University sociologist Peter Berger and Harvard Business School's Rosabeth Moss Kanter, discuss why religion of all kinds is increasingly shaping discussions of world politics and the global economy and political order.
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The Body's Grace: Matthew Sanford's Story (October 5, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Oct 5, 2006
This program presents an unusual take on the mind-body connection with author and yoga teacher Matthew Sanford. He's been a paraplegic since the age of 13. He shares his wisdom for us all on knowing the strength and grace of our bodies even in the face of illness, aging, and death.
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Faith Fired by Literature (September 28, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Sep 28, 2006
Art, life, and religious faith converge in Paul Elie's unusual biography of the intersecting stories of four literary Americans of the 20th century: Trappist monk Thomas Merton, social activist Dorothy Day, and fiction writers Walker Percy and Flannery O'Connor. "Certain books, certain writers," Elie says, "reach us at the center of ourselves."
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Listening Generously: The Medicine of Rachel Naomi Remen (September 21, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Sep 21, 2006
Physician and author Rachel Naomi Remen intertwines stories from life and her practice of oncology. She gives perspective on the core human experiences of loss and disappointment and the achievable work of healing and repair. How we approach this, she says, profoundly shapes our individual lives and that of our society.
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Conservative Politics and Moderate Religion (September 14, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Sep 14, 2006
John Danforth — a former U.S. Senator and UN Ambassador, a lawyer who is also an Episcopal priest — has emerged as a cautionary Republican voice. He speaks about the values that have helped him navigate the line between private faith and public life and his current concerns about religion in his own party and in the world.
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Hearing Muslim Voices Since 9/11 (September 7, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Sep 7, 2006
Dramatic headlines convey a predominantly violent picture of global Islam. But, during the past five years, Muslim guests on Speaking of Faith have conveyed a thoughtful, questing, diverse, and compelling faith. Step back with us and hear these voices from the traditional and evolving center of Islam. And, Krista Tippett speaks with Seyyed Hossein Nasr, an esteemed Muslim scholar who brings a broad religious and historical perspective to hard questions about Islam and the West that have lingered uncomfortably in American life since 9/11.
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Religious Passion, Pluralism, and the Young (August 31, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Aug 31, 2006
Eboo Patel, a 30-year-old Indian-American Muslim and former Rhodes Scholar, is setting out to change the way young people relate to their own religious traditions and those of others. Al Quaeda is the most effective youth program in the world, he says, and we neglect this work at our peril.
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Seeing Poverty after Katrina (August 24, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Aug 24, 2006
One year ago this month, Hurricane Katrina brought horrific pictures of urban poverty in America into all of our living rooms. Dr. David Hilfiker tells the story of how concentrated poverty and racial isolation came to be in cities across America. He lives creatively and constructively with questions many of us began to ask in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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The Freelance Monotheism of Karen Armstrong (August 17, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Aug 17, 2006
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.
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Surviving the Religion of Mao (August 10, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Aug 10, 2006
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 explores the human hunger to survive against extreme social brutality. In this conversation, Anchee Min tells us what she learned about the human spirit in the forced labor camp in which she spent her teenage years, and how she's found healing in America.
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Gay Marriage: Broken or Blessed? Two Evangelical Views (August 3, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Aug 3, 2006
Our culture's acrimonious debate on the morality of gay marriage has been framed in religious — largely conservative Christian — terms. With Richard Mouw and Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, we go behind the rhetoric to explore the human confusion, hopes, and fears this subject arouses. We'll name hard questions that these religious people on both sides of the issue are asking themselves, and that they would like to ask of others.
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Evolution and Wonder: Understanding Charles Darwin (July 20, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jul 20, 2006
From the Scopes Trial to school board controversies in our day, Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution are portrayed as a refutal of the very idea of God. With Darwin biographer James Moore, we'll learn about the world in which Darwin formulated his ideas and how he took religion seriously.
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The Tragedy of the Believer (July 13, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jul 13, 2006
With Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, we explore the literary and religious journey that unfolded after Night, his memoir of the Holocaust that has climbed to bestseller lists five decades after its publication. We hear passages of his varied writings of the last 50 years. And, we explore his thoughts on God and evil, youth in Jerusalem and Berlin, and prayer after the Holocaust.
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Joe Carter and the Legacy of the African-American Spiritual (July 6, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jul 6, 2006
We celebrate the life of performer, educator, and humanitarian Joe Carter with his exploration in word and song of the meaning of the African-American spiritual. He traveled the world and introduced the spiritual to audiences from Novosibirsk to Nigeria. He had a singular understanding of the religious sensibility of this music — its hidden meanings, as well as its beauty, lament, and hope.
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Obedience and Action (June 29, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jun 29, 2006
In over 50 years as a Benedictine nun, Sister Joan Chittister has emerged as a powerful and uncomfortable voice in Roman Catholicism and in global politics. If women were ordained in the Catholic Church in our lifetime, some say, she would be the first female bishop.
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Heart and Soul: The Integrative Medicine of Dr. Mehmet Oz (June 22, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jun 22, 2006
The word healing means to make whole. But historically, in a field like cardiology, Western medicine has taken a divided view of human health. It has stressed medical treatment of biological ailments. Cardiovascular surgeon Mehmet Oz speaks about the intersection of Western medicine, human spirituality, and the physiology of the human heart.
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The Spirituality of Parenting (June 15, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jun 15, 2006
How do parents and grandparents nurture the spiritual and moral awareness of the children in our lives? Rabbi Sandy Sasso has written books that help children and adults of many backgrounds discuss religion and ethics together. The spiritual life, she says, begins not in abstractions, but in concrete everyday experiences. And children need our questions as much as our answers.
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A History of Doubt (June 8, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jun 8, 2006
Our guest, 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.
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Deciphering the Da Vinci Code (June 1, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jun 1, 2006
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 Christianity? What is the truth about Mary Magdalene? We separate fact from fiction in the story's plot with two New Testament scholars, Luke Timothy Johnson and Bernadette Brooten, who say that the story is simpler and much more interesting than conspiracy theories suggest.
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The Soul of War (May 25, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, May 25, 2006
Since September 11, 2001, 1.3 million military men and women have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. More than one million have returned home. Chaplain Major John Morris has helped to develop a pioneering program, the first of its kind in the country, to support the reintegration of National Guard and Reserve members into their lives, their families, and their communities.
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The Need for Creeds (May 18, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, May 18, 2006
For many modern Americans, the very idea of reciting an unchanging creed, composed centuries ago, is troublesome. But, Jaroslav Pelikan, a scholar who has devoted his life to exploring the vitality of ancient theology and creeds, insists 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.
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The Evolution of American Evangelicalism (May 11, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, May 11, 2006
Richard Cizik is evangelical Christianity's key advocate before Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court. In a wide-ranging and unpredictable conversation, Cizik speaks about new directions for politicized evangelical Christianity — from climate change and the war in Iraq to the virtue of humility. If you think you've got American evangelicals figured out, he may surprise you.
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Room for J: One Family's Struggle with Schizophrenia (May 4, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, May 4, 2006
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, normalcy, and religion differently. Is there room in our culture to consider a schizophrenic personality as another form of human difference and diversity?
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Spiritual Tidal Wave, The Origins and Impact of Pentecostalism (April 27, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Apr 27, 2006
The birth of the Pentecostal movement began 100 years ago on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. We take our show on the road to cover this global gathering and revival that is reshaping Christianity, culture, and politics worldwide. Guests include Cecil Robeck and Arlene Sanchez Walsh.
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Quarks and Creation (April 20, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Apr 20, 2006
Science and religion are often pitted against one another; but how do they complement, rather than contradict, one another? We learn how scientist and theologian John Polkinghorne applies the deepest insights of modern physics to think about how the world fundamentally works, and how the universe might make space for prayer.
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Exodus, Cargo of Hidden Stories (April 13, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Apr 13, 2006
Avivah Zornberg is one of the great, creative interpreters of Talmud and Torah in the ontemporary world. She guides us through the Exodus story that is commemorated during the eight days of Passover. Passover is also the backdrop of the Easter events of the Christian New Testament. We find meaning in the text that Cecil B. DeMille and Disney never imagined — about the worst and the best of human nature, and the realities and ironies of human freedom.
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Planting the Future with Wangari Maathai (April 6, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Apr 6, 2006
Wangari Maathai, a native Kenyan, was the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She is founder of the Green Belt Movement — a grassroots organization that empowers African women to improve their lives and conserve the environment through planting trees. Deforestation and climate change have plunged Africa into the worst drought in decades. After helping plant 30 million trees, she speaks about the global balance of human and natural resources and shares her thoughts on where God resides.
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Pagans Ancient and Modern (March 30, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Mar 30, 2006
Adrian Ivakhiv is an environmentalist who pursued the ecological impulse of Paganism from its ancient roots to its modern revival in Europe and North America. We hear his observations about the spirit of Paganism and its influence on everyday Western culture — and even on old-time religion.
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Approaching Prayer (March 23, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Mar 23, 2006
We explore creative and generous approaches to prayer in three very different lives: Hindu chant with musician Anoushka Shankar; poetry and "non-religious" prayer with translator Stephen Mitchell; and theologian Roberta Bondi on learning to pray with the Desert Fathers and Mothers. Also, a reflection on prayer by poet and memoirist Patricia Hampl.
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Two Narratives, Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - part 2 (March 16, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Mar 16, 2006
In the second of a two-part series, continue listening to experiences and perceptions that divide Israelis and Palestinians even as they share a land they both consider holy. Two Muslim Palestinians, Mohammed Abu-Nimer and Sami Adwan, speak about the intersection of the spiritual and the political in their lives.
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Two Narratives, Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - part 1 (March 9, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Mar 9, 2006
In the first of a two-part series, we'll seek to understand the difficulty of peace in a land that its inhabitants, on both sides of conflict, consider holy. We listen this hour to journalist Yossi Klein Halevi's perceptions and perspectives as an Israeli Jew.
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Brother Thay: A Radio Pilgrimage with Thich Nhat Hanh (March 2, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Mar 2, 2006
Vietnamese Zen master and poet, Thich Nhat Hanh, offers stark, gentle wisdom for living in a world of anger and violence. We speak with him and others at an unusual retreat attended by law enforcement officials.
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The Gods of Business (February 23, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Feb 23, 2006
As the Enron trial unfolds in Houston, we speak with international business analyst Prabhu Guptara of UBS in Switzerland. He has fascinating perspective on how an Enron scandal can happen and why it matters to people around the world. He explains how the United States can be one of the world's most religious countries -- yet at the same time, a culture in which moral values can fail to penetrate the workplace.
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The Face of the Prophet: Cartoons and Chasm (February 16, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Feb 16, 2006
We seek to untangle the knot of violent and bewildered reactions to cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Vincent Cornell, a professor of history and director of the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of Arkansas, provides insight into this complex issue.
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Sacred Wilderness, An African Story (February 9, 2006)
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Thu, Feb 9, 2006
Isabel Mukonyora has followed and studied a religious movement of her Shona people, the Masowe Apostles, that embraces Christian tradition while addressing the drama of African life and history. The founder of this movement, Johane Masowe, emphasized an ancient Jewish and Christian pull to the wilderness. Through her stories we explore modern African spirituality, diaspora, and finding meaning, as Mukonyora says, "in the margins."
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Ethics and the Will of God: The Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (February 2, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Feb 2, 2006
With Bonhoeffer documentarian Martin Doblmeier, we explore this 20th-century theologian who was executed for his complicity in a plot to assassinate Adolph Hitler. Bonhoeffer's example and his extant writings, including "Letters and Papers from Prison," continue to inspire with creative and challenging ideas about "religionless Christianity," the nature of ethics, and the "will of God" versus "tribal" religion.
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The Buddha in the World (January 26, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jan 26, 2006
In an intellectual and personal adventure across India and Europe, Afghanistan and America, Pankaj Mishra, an Indian journalist and author of "An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World," pursued the history and the meaning of the Buddha — not as a religious figure but as a critical social thinker. He came to doubt some of the most basic assumptions about politics and progress that define the modern world.
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Globalizing the Sacred (January 19, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jan 19, 2006
Americans of Hispanic descent have now become this country's largest minority. Salvadoran-American scholar of religion and social change, Manuel Vasquez, says Americans have not grasped the way their culture will be changed by the religious and spiritual worldviews being imported. And as he sees it, indigenous religious practice and identity are growing more influential in the global age.
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Stress and the Balance Within (January 12, 2006)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jan 12, 2006
The American experience of stress has spawned a multi-billion dollar self-help industry. Doctor Esther Sternberg is wary of that. But she says that, until very recently, modern science did not have the tools or the inclination to take emotional stress seriously. Here she shares fascinating new scientific insight into the molecular level of the mind-body connection.
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Einstein's Ethics (December 15, 2005)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jan 5, 2006
Part two of the series "Einstein and the Mind of God" delves into Einstein's Jewish identity, his passionate engagement around issues of war and race, and modern extensions of his ethical and scientific perspectives.
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Einstein's God (December 5, 2005)
Author: Krista Tippett, American Public Media
Thu, Jan 5, 2006
Part one of the series on "Einstein and the Mind of God" takes Einstein's science as a starting point for exploring the great physicist's perspective on ideas such as mystery, eternity, and the mind of God.
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