Tag: christianity
member name: Krista Tippett
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March 17, 2008 03:23 PM EDT --
Liberating the Founders
I've enjoyed Steven Waldman as a journalist and commentator through the last two election seasons because he refused to tolerate or perpetuate the culture wars that embittered . . . more
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August 03, 2007 11:21 AM EDT --
If we have an archive of Speaking of Faith "classic" programs, this is one of them. It is quite unlike anything else we've done, but we have broadcast it every winter for the past few years. . . . more
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May 22, 2008 05:25 PM EDT --
The Spirituality of Addiction and Recovery
In 1961, the renowned Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung wrote a now-famous letter to Bill Wilson , the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), describing . . . more
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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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August 24, 2007 09:20 AM EDT --
It feels contrary to the spirit of this program to write a "reflection" on it. I had to confess to Stuart Brown that for long stretches of my life his short definition of play ? "pleasurable, . . . 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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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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June 23, 2008 02:50 PM EDT --
Sustaining Language, Sustaining Meaning
The word "sustainability" has entered our common vocabulary, a critical concept for the period ahead. But like every catchword, new and old, this . . . more
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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 . . . more
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May 20, 2008 12:19 PM EDT --
The Spirituality of Addiction and Recovery
In 1961, the renowned Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung wrote a now-famous letter to Bill Wilson , the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), describing . . . 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 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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May 12, 2007 11:01 PM EDT --
We had a lively and challenging response to my program with Jennifer Michael Hecht and to my characterization of her ideas as an alternative — a reconciliatory counterpart — to our culture's . . . 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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September 16, 2007 11:06 PM EDT --
Before my interview with Anchee Min, I wasn't sure what she would have to say about faith, if anything at all. But I had read her books. Between the lines of her beautiful, careful prose, I found glimpses . . . more
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July 25, 2008 11:34 AM EDT --
Play, Spirit, and Character
It feels contrary to the spirit of this program to write a "reflection" on it. I had to confess to Stuart Brown that for long stretches of my life his short . . . 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 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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