On Being
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Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.
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Episodes (428)
Robert Coles, Diane Komp, and Carol Dittberner — Children and God (Dec 16, 2004)
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Steven Waldman — The Future of Moral Values (Jan 20, 2005)
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Phyllis Tickle + Lynn Clark — A Return To Mystery: Religion, Fantasy + Entertain...
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Laurie Zoloth — A Theological Perspective on Cloning
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Joel Marcus — The Jewish Roots of the Christian Story
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Sylvia Poggioli, Donald Cozzens, and Margaret A. Farley — The Religious Legacy o...
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Jelle de Boer and Ursula Goodenough — The Morality of Nature
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Debbie Morris, Helen Prejean, and Elie Spitz — Reflections on the Death Penalty...
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Abdul-Rasheed Muhammad — Serving Country, Serving Allah
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Khaled Abou El Fadl and Harold M. Schulweis — Religion and Our World in Crisis
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Joseph L. Price — In Praise Of Play
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Kecia Ali, Omid Safi, Precious Rasheeda Muhammad, and Michael Wolfe — Progressiv...
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Miroslav Volf — Religion and Violence
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James K. A. Smith and Nancey Murphy — Evangelicals, Out of the Box
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Joan Brown Campbell and Thomas Hoyt, Jr. — Living Reconciliation Two Ecumenical...
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Don Saliers and Edward Foley — The Meaning of Communion: At the Table
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Joan Halifax — A Midwife to the Dying
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Patrick Bellegarde-Smith — Living Vodou (Jan 9, 2014)
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Marilynne Robinson + Marcelo Gleiser — The Mystery We Are (Jan 2, 2013)
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Alberto Ambrosio + Elpidophoros Lambriniadis — Spiritual Boundaries in Modern Tu...
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Jim Daly and Gabe Lyons — The Next Christians (Sep 20, 2012)
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Sen. Pete Domenici and Alice Rivlin — Political Bridge People (Oct 25, 2012)
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Sherry Turkle — Alive Enough? Reflecting — Our Technology (Nov 15, 2012)
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Robi Damelin and Ali Abu Awwad — No More Taking Sides (Nov 29, 2012)
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Kate Braestrup — A Presence in the Wild (Dec 13, 2012)
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Jon Kabat-Zinn — Opening to Our Lives and a Science of Mindfulness (Dec 27, 2012...
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Tami Simon — Inner Life at Work: Business, Meditation, and Technology (May 30, 2...
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Omid Safi and Seemi Bushra Ghazi — The Spirit of Islam (Jan 6, 2005)
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Where Was God? (Sep 22, 2001)
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Walter Brueggemann — The Prophetic Imagination (Dec 19, 2013)
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Phil Donahue — Transformation, On-Screen and Off (Dec 12, 2013)
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Vincent Harding and Phyllis Tickle — Racial Identity in the Emerging Church and...
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Martin Rees — Cosmic Origami and What We Don't Know
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Ira Byock — Contemplating Mortality (Nov 7, 2013)
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Esther Sternberg — The Science of Healing Places
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David Sloan Wilson — Evolving a City
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Keith Devlin — The Joy of Math and Learning and What it Means to Be Human
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Arthur Zajonc — Holding Life Consciously (Sep 12, 2013)
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Natalie Batalha — Exoplanets and Love: Science That Connects Us to One Another (...
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Kwame Anthony Appiah — Sidling Up to Difference: Social Change and Moral Revolut...
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Sylvia Earle — Her Deepness (Aug 8, 2013)
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David Montgomery — Reading The Rocks: Flood Stories and Deep Time (Aug 1, 2013)
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David Gushee and Frances Kissling — Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Pro-Dialogue (July 25,...
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Meredith Monk's Voice (June 27, 2013)
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Sarah Kay's Way with Words (June 13, 2013)
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S. James Gates — Uncovering the Codes for Reality (June 6, 2013)
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Andrew Zolli — A Shift to Humility: Resilience and Expanding the Edge of Change...
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Sylvia Boorstein — What We Nurture (May 9, 2013)
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Lawrence Krauss — Our Origins and the Weight of Space
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Alan Rabinowitz — A Voice for the Animals (April 18, 2013)
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