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- Eve Ensler — The Body After CancerEve Ensler has helped women all over the world tell the stories of their lives through the stories of their bodies. Her play, "The Vagina Monologues," has become a global force in the face of violence against women and girls. But she herself also had a violent childhood. And it turns out that she, like so many Western women, was obsessed by her body and yet not inhabiting it without even knowing she wasn't inhabiting her body — until she got cancer.53 min
- [Unedited] Eve Ensler with Krista TippettEve Ensler is a Tony Award-winning playwright, performer, and activist. She is the author of "The Vagina Monologues" and "The Good Body." Her memoir is "In the Body of the World." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Eve Ensler — The Body After Cancer." Find more at onbeing.org.1 hr 15 min
- Joe Henry — The Mystery and Adventure of Life and Songwriting
In life as in song, Joe Henry says "we're really called not to dispel mystery but to abide it, to engage it." He brings an inward wisdom to the art and craft of making music. Cherished by fans and fellow musicians alike, he’s produced a dozen albums of his own and for an array of artists, including Ani DiFranco, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, and Billy Bragg. And, he’s written songs together with Rosanne Cash and Madonna. With Joe Henry, we probe the mystery and adventure of discovering life through music.
51 min - [Unedited] Joe Henry with Krista TippettJoe Henry is a Grammy Award-winning producer and singer-songwriter. He's recorded 13 albums and produced dozens of other artists. He's the co-author of "Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him" and his latest album is "Invisible Hour." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Joe Henry — The Mystery and Adventure of Life and Songwriting." Find more at onbeing.org.1 hr 40 min
- [Unedited] Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons and Lucas Johnson with Krista TippettGwendolyn Zoharah Simmons is assistant professor of religion at the University of Florida. She is also a member of the National Council of Elders. Her account of her work as an activist in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is featured in the book, "Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC." Lucas Johnson is international coordinator of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation and an ordained Baptist minister. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons and Lucas Johnson — The Movement, Remembered Forward." Find more at onbeing.org.1 hr 35 min
- Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons and Lucas Johnson — The Movement, Remembered ForwardWisdom for how we can move and heal our society in our time as the Civil Rights Movement galvanized its own. Lucas Johnson is bringing the art and practice of nonviolence into a new century, for new generations. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons was an original Black Power feminist and a grassroots leader of the Mississippi Freedom Summer.53 min
- [Unedited] Helen Fisher with Krista TippettHelen Fisher is a Visiting Research Associate and member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. She is also the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Internet dating site Match.com. Her books include "Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray" and "Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Helen Fisher — Love and Sex and Attachment." Find more at onbeing.org.1 hr 29 min
- Helen Fisher — Love and Sex and Attachment
In her TED talks that have been viewed by millions of people and the research she does for Match.com, Helen Fisher wields science as a sobering, if entertaining, lens on what feels like the most meaningful encounters of our lives. She is a leading anthropologist/explorer on the new frontier of seeing inside our brains when love and sex happen. And she reveals how we can take this knowledge as a form of power — to give conscious new meaning to the thrilling and sometimes treacherous human realms of love, sex, and marriage.
51 min - [Unedited] Brené Brown with Krista TippettBrené Brown is Research Professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. Her books include: "The Gifts of Imperfection" and "Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Brené Brown — The Courage to Be Vulnerable." Find more at onbeing.org.1 hr 28 min
- Brené Brown — The Courage to Be VulnerableCourage is borne out of vulnerability, not strength. This finding of Brené Brown’s research on shame and "wholeheartedness" shook the perfectionist ground beneath her own feet. And now it’s inspiring millions to reconsider the way they live, parent, and navigate relations with members of the opposite gender.52 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."