Krista Tippett

Hi, I see that you are connected with Carolion. There is some news about her in a post on my homepage. Please read, thank you - Rosa

To our mutual friends, sorry for the generic ping/email, I am trying to reach as many people as I can

Hi Krista and staff,

Sometimes it pains me to see religion and science at odds over evolution. Michael Shermer writes a short column in Scientific American Magazine. In October 2006 (I am a little behind on my reading, 2006 was a busy year) his column made an argument about why Christians and Conservatives should accept evolution. I know your show covers this topic a lot. I just wondered if you had ever had Shermer on. If you haven't, mabe you could.

Just a thought. I really like your show.

Paul

Just noticed that your hometown is Shawnee. I went to college there, and then hung around for a little while working for the paper. My parents soon followed me there, and my sister graduated from Shawnee High. It's a place that has lots of warm fuzzies for me, its shortcomings not withstanding.

Dear Krista,
Love your radio show (and book)! I look forward to it every week, and consider it exercise for my soul...

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Krista,
I'd be interested in knowing more about this too.
>>we're working on some ideas for teaching people how to create better dialogue in groups and in one-on-one encounters. I have a model that works for me and that I'm hoping to share with others. Stay tuned.

Mike W, we're working on some ideas for teaching people how to create better dialogue in groups and in one-on-one encounters. I have a model that works for me and that I'm hoping to share with others. Stay tuned.

Krista -

For a long time I've wanted to tell you how much I enjoy Speaking of Faith.

I have often wondered how to conduct such a positive, inclusive and respectful discussion about politics as you do with faith and religion.

Any suggestions?

I enjoy your work, but I wish to know why the belief in the animative spirit is so absent these days in religion? IMO, religion has become too verbal and too psychological if not entirely despiritualized. In my own tradition, Mahayana Buddhism, the animative light or pure mind plays a central role as we try to apperceive it through meditation (dhyana). In a nutshell, it is what animates this body. However, if we are strongly attached to our body, by our desires, we are unable see it--and this absence is suffering. Well, needless to say, nobody seems that interested in discussing the "light" or the light of life (phos zoe). And am trying to find out why. Have we become willfully blind?

Krista, I consider you a "colleague" tho we've never met. I'm using your book as text in a class I'm teaching at Duke Univ Inst. for Learning in Retirement. I play excerpts from your shows in class (podcasts). You have become one of my "inner companions." I'm the UCC campus minister at Duke, and an Assoc. Member of the Jesus Seminar (which I note you referred to once :-) Would love to have some conversations with you about what we're learning together in this class of intelligent and exploring retired persons. Mark Rutledge betmark@msn.com