Tag: morality
member name: Krista Tippett
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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 . . . more
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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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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . 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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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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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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" . . . 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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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 . . . 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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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 . . . more
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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. . . . more
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May 22, 2008 05:24 PM EDT --
Approaching Prayer
Prayer is as old as time and as vast as human experience, found in every culture across history. Counter-intuitively perhaps, prayer is a far more common bond among Americans . . . 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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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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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 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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