Tag: faith
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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September 30, 2007 01:56 AM EDT --
The Centers for Disease Control report that 1 in 150 children in the U.S. is now diagnosed somewhere on the spectrum of autism. In other words, this is a condition that affects many lives, many families. . . .
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March 28, 2008 11:29 AM EDT --
Exploring a New Humanism
I first met Greg Epstein, as it happens, at a fantastic conference pulled together by Eboo Patel's Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago. This was an energetic gathering . . .
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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 13, 2007 10:38 AM EDT --
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Esther Sternberg is a scientist's scientist. She is wary of the commercialized self-help industry and of unsubstantiated . . .
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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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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. . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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September 07, 2007 11:03 PM EDT --
At the beginning of this conversation with Rabbi Sharon Brous and again at the end, we discuss a seminal prayer-poem of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Unetaneh Tokef. It is a recital of commonplace mortal . . .
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November 16, 2007 05:43 AM EST --
Our emerging national conversation about sustainability has a decidedly "eat your spinach" tone. We're steeling ourselves to enter the realm of sacrifice, and penance. But in all my conversations . . .
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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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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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May 04, 2007 11:22 AM EDT --
Up to now I have resisted interviewing Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins, who have coined best-selling battle cries like "the end of faith" and "the God delusion." They validly critique . . .
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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 . . .
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October 20, 2007 11:43 PM EDT --
Twenty-five years after The Secular City , Harvey Cox wrote some lines that help me frame what I hope to accomplish with my program "Beyond the Atheism-Religion Divide," and how I want to . . .
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October 17, 2008 11:08 AM EDT --
Being Autistic, Being Human
The Centers for Disease Control report that 1 in 150 children in the U.S. is now diagnosed somewhere on the spectrum of autism. In other words, this is a condition that . . .
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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 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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January 15, 2008 09:04 PM EST --
Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth
Janna Levin is a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College with a special interest in the origins and shape of the universe. She's also the author . . .
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