Tag: ethics
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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July 03, 2008 04:50 PM EDT --
The Ethics of Eating
I like to say that I'm not an an optimist, but I am a person of hope. That is to say, I cultivate the virtue of hope in myself. Hope takes account of the enormity and darkness . . .
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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 . . .
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June 12, 2009 03:18 PM EDT --
The Long Shadow of Torture
In the post-September 11th era, torture became an aspect of U.S. identity, a defining part of our national repertoire of intelligence gathering and military detention. . . .
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July 19, 2007 09:29 PM EDT --
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I was happy to be reminded that Lady Bird Johnson, who died this month, started the campaign of "beautification" . . .
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February 02, 2009 11:27 AM EST --
Preserving Words and Worlds
There is a grand synchronicity in the work of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library and the sweep of the 1500-year-old tradition of the order of St. Benedict. Across . . .
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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, . . .
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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 . . .
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August 14, 2008 11:26 AM EDT --
The Business of Doing Good
I am moving into a new house this week, and e-mail slows down this time of year for all of us (or it should). So here's a shorter reflection.
This week's . . .
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November 25, 2008 05:19 PM EST --
The Sunni-Shia Divide and the Future of Islam
Sectarian violence appears as the greatest stumbling block, perhaps, to the creation of civil society in Iraq and a responsible U.S. withdrawal. In this . . .
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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 . . .
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September 03, 2007 04:02 PM EDT --
Mehmet Oz is one of the most respected and dynamic of a new generation of doctors who are taking medicine to new spiritual as well as technological frontiers. As director of the Cardiovascular Institute . . .
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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 . . .
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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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June 05, 2008 05:51 PM EDT --
The Spiritual Audacity of Abraham Joshua Heschel
A list of Abraham Joshua Heschel's books alone is evocative — among them God in Search of Man , Man Is Not Alone , and his epic works . . .
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October 03, 2008 12:02 PM EDT --
The Faith Life of the Party — Part I, The Left
When I use words like "refreshing" and "thought-provoking" to describe this conversation with Amy Sullivan and next week's with . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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