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)
Thupten Jinpa — Translating the Dalai Lama (Feb 21, 2013)
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Ursula King, Andrew Revkin + David Sloan Wilson — Teilhard de Chardin's Planetar...
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Joanna Brooks — Mormons Demystified (Aug 23, 2012)
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Terry Tempest Williams — The Vitality of the Struggle (July 19, 2012)
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Mustafa Akyol — Religion, Democracy, and the New Turkey (July 12, 2012)
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Jacob Needleman — The Inward Work of Democracy (June 28, 2012)
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Richard Davidson — Investigating Healthy Minds (June 14, 2012)
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Cal DeWitt + Majora Carter — Discovering Where We Live: Reimagining Environmenta...
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Douglas Johnston — Diplomacy and Religion in the 21st Century (Jan 3, 2008)
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The New Evangelical Leaders: Part 2 - Rick and Kay Warren (December 6, 2007)
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Jim Wallis — The New Evangelical Leaders, Part I (Nov 29, 2007)
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Nathan Dungan — Money and Moral Balance (Nov 8, 2007)
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Michael McCullough — Getting Revenge and Forgiveness (May 24, 2012)
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Matthew Sanford — The Body's Grace (May 3, 2012)
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Ernie LaPointe and Cedric Good House — Reimagining Sitting Bull, Tatanka Iyotake...
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Vigen Guroian — Restoring the Senses: Gardening and Orthodox Easter (April 5, 20...
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Fatemeh Keshavarz — The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi (March 8, 2012)
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Nicholas Kristof — Journalism and Compassion (Feb 9, 2012)
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Tiya Miles — Toward Living Memory (Feb 2, 2012)
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John Paul Lederach — The Art of Peace (Jan 12, 2012)
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Scott-Martin Kosofsky — Legends To Live By (Dec 15, 2011)
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Diane Winston — Monsters We Love: TV's Pop Culture Theodicy (Dec 1, 2011)
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Ellen Davis — The Poetry of Creatures (Nov 24, 2011)
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Paul Raushenbush — Occupying the Gospel (Nov 17, 2011)
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Matthieu Ricard — The Happiest Man in the World (Oct 27, 2011)
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Avivah Zornberg — The Genesis of Desire (Oct 6, 2011)
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Sari Nusseibeh — The Evolution of Change (Sep 15, 2011)
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Hendrick Hertzberg, Pankaj Mishra and Serene Jones — Remembering Forward (Sep 8,...
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Richard Mouw — Restoring Political Civility (Aug 18, 2011)
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Frances Kissling — Listening Beyond Life and Choice (Aug 11, 2011)
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Paul Collins and Jennifer Elder — Autism and Humanity (July 14, 2011)
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Amahl Bishara and Nidal Al-Azraq — Pleasure More Than Hope (July 7, 2011)
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Anthea Butler and Arlene Sánchez-Walsh — Reviving Sister Aimee (June 9, 2011)
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Yossi Klein Halevi — Thin Places, Thick Realities (May 12, 2011)
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Mohammad Darawshe — Children of Both Identities (April 28, 2011)
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Avivah Zornberg — Exodus, Cargo of Hidden Stories (April 14, 2011)
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John Polkinghorne — Quarks and Creation (Jan 13, 2011)
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Evolving "Faith" (Dec 30, 2010)
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Joe Carter — The Legacy of the African-American Spiritual (Dec 23, 2010)
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Darius Rejali — The Long Shadow of Torture (Nov 4, 2010)
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Doris Taylor — Stem Cells, Untold Stories (Sep 30, 2010)
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Sharon Brous — Days of Awe (Sep 2, 2010)
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Jacqueline Novogratz — A Different Kind of Capitalism (Aug 19, 2010)
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Bill McKibben — The Moral Math of Climate Change (Aug 5, 2010)
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Rachel Naomi Remen — Listening Generously (July 29, 2010)
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Barbara Kingsolver — The Ethics of Eating (July 15, 2010)
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Shane Claiborne — A Monastic Revolution (July 1, 2010)
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Andrew Freear — An Architecture of Decency (June 3, 2010)
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Columba Stewart and Getatchew Haile — Preserving Words and Worlds (May 6, 2010)
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Mercedes Doretti — Laying the Dead to Rest (April 15, 2010)
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