On Being

On Being

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On Being episodes

  • [Unedited] Elizabeth Alexander with Krista Tippett
    Elizabeth Alexander is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the inaugural Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University. She's the author of a new memoir, "The Light of the World." She's also the author of several books of essays and poetry including "Crave Radiance." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Elizabeth Alexander — Words That Shimmer." Find more at onbeing.org.
    1 hr 34 min
  • Mirabai Bush — Search Inside Yourself: Contemplation in Life and Work

    She works at an emerging 21st century intersection of industry, social healing, and diverse contemplative practices. Raised Catholic with Joan of Arc as her hero, Mirabai Bush is one of the people who brought Buddhism to the West from India in the 1970s. She is called in to work with educators and judges, social activists and soldiers. She helped create Google’s popular employee program, Search Inside Yourself. Mirabai Bush’s life tells a fascinating narrative of our time: the rediscovery of contemplative practices, in many forms and from many traditions, in the secular thick of modern culture.

    51 min
  • [Unedited] Mirabai Bush with Krista Tippett
    Mirabai Bush co-founded the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society. She is the co-author of "Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Mirabai Bush — Search Inside Yourself: Contemplation in Life and Work." Find more at onbeing.org.
    1 hr 35 min
  • Rami Nashashibi — A New Coming Together
    Rami Nashashibi uses graffiti, calligraphy, and hip-hop in his work as a healing force on the South Side of Chicago. A Palestinian-American, he started his activism with at-risk urban Muslim families, especially youth, while he was still a college student. Now he’s the leader of a globally-emulated project converging religious virtues, the arts, and social action. And he is a fascinating face of a Muslim-American dream flourishing against the odds in post-9/11 America.
    51 min
  • [Unedited] Rami Nashashibi with Krista Tippett
    Rami Nashashibi is founder and executive director of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN). He is a visiting assistant professor of Sociology of Religion and Muslim Studies at Chicago Theological Seminary. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Rami Nashashibi — A New Coming Together." Find more at onbeing.org.
    1 hr 12 min
  • Béla Fleck + Abigail Washburn — Beauty in Banjo and in Life

    They are partners in music and in life — recovering something ancient and deeply American all at once, bringing both beauty and meaning to what they play and how they live. Béla Fleck is one of the greatest living banjo players in the world. He’s followed what many experience as this quintessential American roots instrument back to its roots in Africa and taken it where no banjo has gone before. Abigail Washburn is a celebrated banjo player and singer, both in English and Chinese. Experience our public conversation with them on stage before an adoring crowd at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville, Tennessee.

    51 min
  • [Unedited] Abigail Washburn + Béla Fleck with Krista Tippett
    Béla Fleck has recorded over 40 albums, most famously with The Flecktones and New Grass Revival. His albums include "Flight of the Cosmic Hippo," "UFO Tofu," "Rocket Science," and "The Sparrow Quartet EP." Abigail Washburn is a banjo player and singer. Her albums include "Song of the Traveling Daughter" and "City of Refuge." Their 2014 duo album is called "Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Béla Fleck + Abigail Washburn — Beauty in Banjo and in Life." Find more at onbeing.org.
    1 hr 24 min
  • john a. powell — Opening the Question of Race to the Question of Belonging
    “Race is a little bit like gravity,” john powell says: experienced by all, understood by the few. He is an esteemed legal scholar and thinker who counsels all kinds of people and projects on the front lines of our present racial anguish and longings. Race is relational, he reminds us. It’s as much about whiteness as about color. And it largely plays out, as we’re learning through new science, in our unconscious minds. john powell is steeped in this new learning and offers it to us, as a form of everyday power, to animate our belonging to others that is already real. But we must claim it.
    51 min
  • [Unedited] john powell with Krista Tippett
    john a. powell is the director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at the University of California at Berkeley. He previously directed the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University and the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of "Racing to Justice: Transforming our Concepts of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "john a. powell — Opening the Question of Race to the Question of Belonging." Find more at onbeing.org.
    1 hr 29 min
  • Mario Livio — Mysteries of an Expanding Universe
    The Hubble Space Telescope, which turns 25 this year, has brought the beauty of the cosmos into our lives. Mario Livio works with discoveries it makes possible, studying things like dark energy, extrasolar planets, and white dwarf stars. He's fascinated with the enduring mystery of mathematics, the language of science. He describes the cosmic puzzles that accompany our greatest scientific advances.
    51 min

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The premier theologion of early America, Jonathan Edwards, explores the futility of "absolute nothing" and the the existance of a "necessary eternal being."