Tag: christian
member name: Krista Tippett
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September 23, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859. We've come to imagine him as a godless naturalist and to see the publication of this book as a dramatic moment in history, one that created an . . . more
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December 13, 2007 06:54 AM EST --
Sometime last year I had in interesting informal conversation with Richard Mouw, the president of Fuller Theological Seminary, a respected center of Evangelical scholarship and learning. Mouw has spoken . . . more
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January 06, 2008 09:52 AM EST --
Diplomacy and Religion in the 21st Century
Douglas Johnston is a military and diplomatic strategist. Instead of approaching religion as a problem in global crises, he is modeling a new kind of diplomacy. . . . more
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October 05, 2007 09:49 AM EDT --
I first met Joan Chittister a decade ago. I'd heard many entertaining and admiring stories about Sr. Joan's passion and intelligence and wit. She would scribble notes for her next book or column . . . more
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December 01, 2007 12:24 AM EST --
In a handful of years, Jim Wallis has become a best-selling author, a sought-after pundit and preacher, and a high-profile spiritual adviser to powerful people. But for over three decades, he has been . . . more
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December 22, 2007 05:49 PM EST --
The Wisdom of Tenderness
The Canadian philosopher and Catholic social innovator, Jean Vanier, founded a community centered around people with mental disabilities, L'Arche, that has now become . . . more
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February 24, 2008 12:11 PM EST --
Whale Songs and Elephant Loves
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 . . . more
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April 18, 2008 05:27 PM EDT --
Evangelical Politics: Three Generations
I am fascinated this year by how some of the religious dynamics of recent electoral cycles have been turned on their head. Public faith ceased to be the sole . . . more
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April 26, 2007 10:52 PM EDT --
I often write these reflections about the qualities of character of the people I interview, and about the relevance or importance of what they are doing. Jimmy Carter is clearly a person of relevance and . . . more
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November 09, 2007 04:23 AM EST --
Eighteen years ago this week the Berlin Wall opened up. I spent most of the 1980s, most of my 20s, as a journalist and diplomat in the divided city. I was immersed in the human and geopolitical dynamics . . . more
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January 29, 2008 05:06 AM EST --
Inside Mormon Faith
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 . . . more
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May 18, 2007 12:03 AM EDT --
In his book The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical, Shane Claiborne quotes the Danish philosopher/theologian Soren Kierkegaard: "The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians . . . more
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July 06, 2007 12:35 AM EDT --
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Our culture's rituals of marriage are infused with religious, largely biblical, language — such as the beautiful, . . . more
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July 27, 2007 04:35 PM EDT --
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Several readers took exception last week to my assertion that "we" all threw litter out of our cars in recent history, . . . more
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August 10, 2007 10:21 AM EDT --
I've said this before, and I'll keep saying it: Pentecostalism is one of the great under-reported and misunderstood "religion stories" of our time. This faith with a strong egalitarian, . . . more
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August 21, 2008 05:19 PM EDT --
Rick and Kay Warren at Saddleback
Sometime last year I had an interesting informal conversation with Richard Mouw, the president of Fuller Theological Seminary, a respected center of Evangelical . . . more
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April 20, 2007 04:12 PM EDT --
Richard Cizik's way of thinking strikes a contrast with some of the higher-profile images of Evangelical Christianity in American culture in recent times. But a year ago, it was not at all clear how . . . more
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April 08, 2008 11:23 AM EDT --
The Spirituality of Parenting
The notion of God as father is a metaphor, of course, like much religious language. It is necessary approximation and analogy. When I became a mother myself, I was . . . more
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May 05, 2008 03:21 PM EDT --
The Beauty and Challenge of Being Catholic: Hearing the Faithful
As a production team we've long been planning to create a program to take a broad view of the Roman Catholic present. When Pope . . . more
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November 09, 2007 04:34 AM EST --
We're beginning a two part-series on consumption and sustainability as part of our parent company's "Consumed" series . First, I revisited my conversation with Nathan Dungan on money . . . more
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