Tag: religion
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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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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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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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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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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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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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. . . .
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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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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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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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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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April 20, 2007 04:37 PM EDT --
As perpetually horrified as we are of terror and violence, we are riveted by them and we let them define our take on reality. The communications miracles of the 21st century make wondrous connections possible, . . .
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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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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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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 03, 2007 08:27 AM EDT --
I was transfixed by the news from Rangoon in September — pictures and headlines juxtaposing the gentlest of traditions and the harshest of regimes. But as often happens when religion enters the . . .
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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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