Tag: american public media
member name: Krista Tippett
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March 28, 2007 05:09 PM EDT --
Hello Gather,
Since my radio program Speaking of Faith began, people have asked how I came to care about large questions of meaning, how I think about the dangers and promises of religion . . .
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March 19, 2007 05:35 PM EDT --
C h a p t e r O n e
Genesis: How We Got Here
What is faith? What is religion? What is spirituality? Each of these words is difficult for some of us and richly meaningful for others. . . .
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June 05, 2007 09:32 AM EDT --
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I love books that invite me into large worlds of experience and thought. By that measure, and by many others, Pankaj Mishra's . . .
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July 11, 2008 11:20 AM EDT --
A Sophisticated Theology Behind the Musical Tradition
I once met an American tourist who went to Siberia — and was peppered with questions about Joe Carter. Joe had made one of his riveting . . .
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June 16, 2007 11:09 PM EDT --
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I once heard a story about an American who was peppered with questions about Joe Carter — in, of all places, Siberia. . . .
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August 22, 2007 11:46 AM EDT --
So much of the news of recent years has a religious component, for good or ill, and often involving the young. Since I interviewed Eboo Patel, I watch this unfold with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem ringing in . . .
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May 16, 2008 11:09 AM EDT --
The Freelance Monotheism of Karen Armstrong
With sweeping books like A History of God and The Battle for God , Karen Armstrong is known for her singular insight into religion in our world. But . . .
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May 30, 2008 12:23 PM EDT --
Quarks and Creation
I first heard John Polkinghorne's voice on the BBC in the late 1980s, at a time when I lived in England. Late one night, he presented a riveting radio essay. It couldn't . . .
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December 30, 2007 08:57 PM EST --
Listening Generously: The Medicine of Rachel Naomi Remen
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 . . .
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June 23, 2007 12:07 AM EDT --
Beyond the trauma of September 11th and all the upheavals it set in motion, Americans have experienced vulnerability, collectively, in a new way. We are learning the limits of our ability to shield ourselves . . .
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September 04, 2008 05:18 PM EDT --
Stress and the Balance Within
Esther Sternberg is a scientist's scientist. She is wary of the commercialized self-help industry and of unsubstantiated claims for alternative methods of healing. . . .
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December 12, 2008 03:17 AM EST --
The Ethics of Aid: One Kenyan's Perspective
A few months ago, I picked up a book called Dark Star Safari . It is the writer Paul Theroux's account of traveling by land from the northernmost . . .
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March 26, 2007 03:51 PM EDT --
C h a p t e r Two
Remembering Forward
In the mid-twentieth century, before the temporary death of God, before Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, there was such a thing as “public . . .
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February 02, 2009 11:56 AM EST --
The Buddha in the World
Do desiring and acquiring make us happy? Does large-scale political change really address human suffering? These are the questions with which our program with Pankaj Mishra . . .
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February 27, 2009 12:16 PM EST --
The Soul in Depression
We're increasingly aware in our culture of the many faces of depression, and we've become conversant in the language of psychological analysis and medical treatment . . .
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October 26, 2007 01:35 PM EDT --
Moral Man and Immoral Society: Rediscovering Reinhold Niebuhr
We pursue an enlarged perspective on war, religion and politics, and nation-building through the ideas of Reinhold Niebuhr. This 20th-century . . .
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April 11, 2008 11:48 AM EDT --
Brother Thây: A Radio Pilgrimage with Thich Nhat Hanh
Thich Nhat Hanh first came to the world's attention in the 1960s during the war in his native Vietnam. He forsook monastic isolation . . .
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March 13, 2009 02:51 PM EDT --
The Biology of the Spirit
In the summer of 2005, a few colleagues and I went to the Chautauqua Institution's week on "The Brain." We were invited by Chautauqua's Religion Department, . . .
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June 13, 2008 10:23 AM EDT --
Pagans Ancient and Modern
In its original sense, the word "Pagan" simply referred to country dwellers or peasants. Then, as early Christianity spread rapidly in the urban areas of the . . .
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December 01, 2008 11:43 AM EST --
Listening Generously: The Medicine of Rachel Naomi Remen
This is one of my favorite programs. I return over and over again to the formative story of hope Rachel Naomi Remen retold me, as her Orthodox . . .
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