On Being

On Being

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On Being episodes

  • Dave Isay — The Everyday Art of Listening

    "The soul is contained in the voice."

    StoryCorps founder David Isay and Krista Tippett have an intimate conversation about their shared love of listening — and the importance of creating spaces to tell our stories to each other. For him, the spaces where two people ask the questions they’ve always wanted to ask of each other are sacred. Listening, he’s learned, is an act of love. Eliciting and capturing our stories is a way of insisting that every life matters.

    51 min
  • [Unedited] Dave Isay with Krista Tippett
    David Isay is the founder of StoryCorps and the National Day of Listening. His books include "Listening is an Act of Love," "All There Is" and "Ties That Bind." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Dave Isay — The Everyday Art of Listening." Find more at onbeing.org.
    1 hr 13 min
  • Avivah Zornberg — The Transformation of Pharaoh, Moses, and God

    With a master of midrash as our guide, we walk through the Exodus story at the heart of Passover. It's not the simple narrative you've watched at the movies or learned in Sunday school. Neither Moses or Pharaoh, nor the oppressed Israelites or even God, are as they seem. As Avivah Zornberg reveals, Exodus is a cargo of hidden stories — telling the messy, strange, redemptive truth of us as we are, and life as it is.

    51 min
  • [Unedited] Avivah Zornberg with Krista Tippett
    Avivah Zornberg is a scholar of Torah and rabbinic literature, and author of several books including "The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Avivah Zornberg — The Transformation of Pharaoh, Moses, and God." Find more at onbeing.org.
    1 hr 12 min
  • Avivah Zornberg — The Transformation of Pharoah, Moses, and God
    With a master of midrash as our guide, we walk through the Exodus story at the heart of Passover. It's not the simple narrative you've watched at the movies or learned in Sunday school. Neither Moses or Pharaoh, nor the oppressed Israelites or even God, are as they seem. As Avivah Zornberg reveals, Exodus is a cargo of hidden stories — telling the messy, strange, redemptive truth of us as we are, and life as it is.
    51 min
  • Janna Levin — Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth
    An astrophysicist who studies the shape of the universe, Janna Levin has also explored her science by writing a novel about two pivotal 20th-century mathematicians, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing. Both men pushed at boundaries where mathematics presses on grand questions of meaning and purpose. Such questions, she says, help create the technologies that are now changing our sense of what it means to be human.
    51 min
  • [Unedited] Janna Levin with Krista Tippett
    Janna Levin is an astrophysicist and writer. She has contributed to an understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra dimensions, and gravitational waves in the shape of spacetime. She is the author of "A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines," which won the PEN/Bingham prize. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Janna Levin — Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth." Find more at onbeing.org.
    1 hr 16 min
  • Desmond Tutu — A God of Surprises
    "There's no question about the reality of evil, of injustice, of suffering, but at the center of this existence is a heart beating with love." South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu on how his understanding of God and humanity has unfolded through the history he's lived and shaped.
    51 min
  • [Unedited] Desmond Tutu with Krista Tippett
    Desmond Tutu is an Anglican archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He has written many books, including, "Made for Goodness: And Why This Makes All the Difference," and "The Book of Forgiving." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Desmond Tutu — A God of Surprises." Find more at onbeing.org.
    1 hr 16 min
  • [Unedited] Brian McLaren with Krista Tippett
    Brian McLaren is a leading Evangelical pastor and author of several books including "A Generous Orthodoxy," "Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?," and the forthcoming "We Make the Road by Walking." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Brian McLaren — The Equation of Change." Find more at onbeing.org.
    1 hr 20 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."