Krista Tippett is the host of On Being and the author of Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living.

“Good journalists in newsrooms hold themselves to primitive standards when they’re covering religious ideas and people. They’re sloppy and simplistic in a way that they would never be with a political or economic person or idea. I mean they get facts wrong. They generalize. Because they don’t take it seriously, and they don’t know how to take it seriously.”

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[00:30] On Being

[01:15] Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living (Penguin Press • 2016)

[01:45] "MailChimp and the Un-Silicon Valley Way to Make It as a Start-Up" (Farhad Manjoo • New York Times • Oct 2016)

[05:15] The Brown Daily Herald

[11:30] "Mengele Casts Shadow on a Bavarian Town" (New York Times • Jun 1985)

[20:00] "West Germans Protest Nuclear Missiles For 4th Day" (John Tagliabue • New York Times • Apr 1983)

[38:15] The Nantucket Project

[46:15] "The Poetry of Ordinary Time" (On Being • Aug 2014)

[54:00] The Unedited Episode of “Randomness and Choice" (On Being • Oct 2016)

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