On Being with Krista Tippett

By On Being Studios

Society & Culture Social Sciences Religion & Spirituality Spirituality

What's On Being with Krista Tippett about?

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.

4.5

5,329 ratings

Download our free app to listen on your phone

LAST EPISODE

Jennifer Bailey and Lennon ...

10.17.2019

Lennon Flowers and Rev. Jennifer Bailey embody a particular wisdom of millennials around grief, loss, and faith. Together they created The People’s Supper, which uses shared meals to build trust and connection among people of different identities and perspectives. Since ...

On Being with Krista Tippett episodes:

10.17.2019 Jennifer Bailey and Lennon Flowers — An Invitation to Brave Space Lennon Flowers and Rev. Jennifer Bailey embody a particular wisdom of millennials around grief, loss, and faith. Together they created The People’s Supper, which uses shared meals to build trust and connection among people of different identities and perspectives. Since ...
10.17.2019 [Unedited] Jennifer Bailey and Lennon Flowers with Krista Tippett Lennon Flowers and Rev. Jennifer Bailey embody a particular wisdom of millennials around grief, loss, and faith. Together they created The People’s Supper, which uses shared meals to build trust and connection among people of different identities and perspectives. Since ...
10.10.2019 David Treuer — Language Carries More Than Words Writer David Treuer’s work tells a story that is richer and more multi-dimensional than the American history most of us learned in school. Treuer grew up on the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. At the time of our conversation ...
10.10.2019 [Unedited] David Treuer with Krista Tippett Writer David Treuer’s work tells a story that is richer and more multi-dimensional than the American history most of us learned in school. Treuer grew up on the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. At the time of our conversation ...
10.03.2019 Derek Black and Matthew Stevenson — Befriending Radical Disagreement We’d heard Derek Black, the former white-power heir apparent, interviewed before about his past, but never about the college friendships that changed him. After Derek’s ideology was outed at the New College of Florida, Matthew Stevenson (one of the only ...
10.03.2019 [Unedited] Derek Black and Matthew Stevenson with Krista Tippett We’d heard Derek Black, the former white-power heir apparent, interviewed before about his past, but never about the college friendships that changed him. After Derek’s ideology was outed at the New College of Florida, Matthew Stevenson (one of the only ...
09.26.2019 Imani Perry — More Beautiful James Baldwin said, “American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.” Imani Perry embodies that prism. For the past few years, Perry has been pondering the notions of ...
09.26.2019 [Unedited] Imani Perry with Krista Tippett - 2019 James Baldwin said, “American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.” Imani Perry embodies that prism. For the past few years, Perry has been pondering the notions of ...
09.19.2019 Erik Vance — The Drugs Inside Your Head Science writer and reporter Erik Vance says today’s brain scientists are like astronomers of old: They’ve unsettled humanity’s sense of itself by redrawing our picture of the cosmos within our own heads. Vance has investigated the healing power of stories ...
09.19.2019 [Unedited] Erik Vance with Krista Tippett Science writer and reporter Erik Vance says today’s brain scientists are like astronomers of old: They’ve unsettled humanity’s sense of itself by redrawing our picture of the cosmos within our own heads. Vance has investigated the healing power of stories ...
09.12.2019 Ta-Nehisi Coates — Imagining a New America Ta-Nehisi Coates says we must love our country the way we love our friends — and not spare the hard truths. “Can you get to a place where citizens are encouraged to see themselves critically, where they’re encouraged to see ...
09.12.2019 [Unedited] Ta-Nehisi Coates with Krista Tippett Ta-Nehisi Coates says we must love our country the way we love our friends — and not spare the hard truths. “Can you get to a place where citizens are encouraged to see themselves critically, where they’re encouraged to see ...
09.05.2019 ‘This Movie Changed Me’ Is Back Movies can be whimsical, terrifying, life-altering, culture-changing experiences where the big ideas we take up at On Being show up in the heart of our lives. This hour we experience this through seven lives and seven movies — from The ...
08.29.2019 Gordon Hempton — Silence and the Presence of Everything Acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton collects sounds from around the world. He’s recorded inside Sitka spruce logs in the Pacific Northwest, thunder in the Kalahari Desert, and dawn breaking across six continents. An attentive listener, he says silence is an endangered ...
08.29.2019 [Unedited] Gordon Hempton with Krista Tippett Acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton collects sounds from around the world. He’s recorded inside Sitka spruce logs in the Pacific Northwest, thunder in the Kalahari Desert, and dawn breaking across six continents. An attentive listener, he says silence is an endangered ...
08.22.2019 Katy Payne — In the Presence of Elephants and Whales We were made and set here, the writer Annie Dillard once wrote, “to give voice to our astonishments.” Katy Payne is a renowned acoustic biologist with a Quaker sensibility. She’s found her astonishment — and many life lessons — in ...
08.22.2019 [Unedited] Katy Payne with Krista Tippett We were made and set here, the writer Annie Dillard once wrote, “to give voice to our astonishments.” Katy Payne is a renowned acoustic biologist with a Quaker sensibility. She’s found her astonishment — and many life lessons — in ...
08.15.2019 Shane Claiborne and Omar Saif Ghobash — Called and Conflicted Spiritual border-crossing and social creativity were themes in a conversation between Shane Claiborne and Omar Saif Ghobash, two people who have lived with some discomfort within the religious groups they continue to love. Ghobash is a diplomat of the United ...
08.15.2019 [Unedited] Shane Claiborne and Omar Saif Ghobash with Krista Tippett Spiritual border-crossing and social creativity were themes in a conversation between Shane Claiborne and Omar Saif Ghobash, two people who have lived with some discomfort within the religious groups they continue to love. Ghobash is a diplomat of the United ...
08.08.2019 Darnell Moore — Self-Reflection and Social Evolution Darnell Moore says honest, uncomfortable conversations are a sign of love — and that self-reflection goes hand-in-hand with culture shift and social evolution. A writer and activist, he’s grown wise through his work on successful and less successful civic initiatives, ...
08.08.2019 [Unedited] Darnell Moore with Krista Tippett Darnell Moore says honest, uncomfortable conversations are a sign of love — and that self-reflection goes hand-in-hand with culture shift and social evolution. A writer and activist, he’s grown wise through his work on successful and less successful civic initiatives, ...
08.01.2019 Amichai Lau-Lavie — First Aid for Spiritual Seekers Forms of religious devotion are shifting — and there’s a new world of creativity toward crafting spiritual life while exploring the depths of tradition. Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is a fun and forceful embodiment of this evolution. Born into an eminent ...
08.01.2019 [Unedited] Amichai Lau-Lavie with Krista Tippett Forms of religious devotion are shifting — and there’s a new world of creativity toward crafting spiritual life while exploring the depths of tradition. Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is a fun and forceful embodiment of this evolution. Born into an eminent ...
07.25.2019 Ross Gay — Tending Joy and Practicing Delight There is a question floating around the world right now: “How can we be joyful in a moment like this?” To which writer Ross Gay responds: “How can we not be joyful, especially in a moment like this?” He says ...
07.25.2019 [Unedited] Ross Gay with Krista Tippett There is a question floating around the world right now: “How can we be joyful in a moment like this?” To which writer Ross Gay responds: “How can we not be joyful, especially in a moment like this?” He says ...
07.18.2019 Jonathan Rowson — Integrating Our Souls, Systems, and Society Applied philosopher Jonathan Rowson insists on holding a deeper appreciation for how our inner worlds influence our outer worlds. His research organization, Perspectiva, examines how social change happens across “systems, souls, and society.” “If we can get better and more ...
07.18.2019 [Unedited] Jonathan Rowson with Krista Tippett Applied philosopher Jonathan Rowson insists on holding a deeper appreciation for how our inner worlds influence our outer worlds. His research organization, Perspectiva, examines how social change happens across “systems, souls, and society.” “If we can get better and more ...
07.11.2019 Esther Perel — The Erotic Is an Antidote to Death Therapist Esther Perel has changed our discourse about sexuality and coupledom with her TED talks, books, and singular podcast, “Where Should We Begin?”, in which listeners are invited into emotionally raw therapy sessions she conducts with couples she’s never met ...
07.11.2019 [Unedited] Esther Perel with Krista Tippett Therapist Esther Perel has changed our discourse about sexuality and coupledom with her TED talks, books, and singular podcast, “Where Should We Begin?”, in which listeners are invited into emotionally raw therapy sessions she conducts with couples she’s never met ...
07.04.2019 Annette Gordon-Reed and Titus Kaphar — Are We Actually Citizens Here? We must shine a light on the past to live more abundantly now. Historian Annette Gordon-Reed and painter Titus Kaphar lead us in an exploration of that as a public adventure in this conversation at the Citizen University annual conference. ...
07.04.2019 [Unedited] Annette Gordon-Reed and Titus Kaphar with Krista Tippett We must shine a light on the past to live more abundantly now. Historian Annette Gordon-Reed and painter Titus Kaphar lead us in an exploration of that as a public adventure in this conversation at the Citizen University annual conference. ...
06.27.2019 [Unedited] Amy Ray and Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls with Krista Tippett The folk-rock duo Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have been making music for over 25 years. They’re known for their social activism on-stage and off, but long before they became the Indigo Girls, they were singing in church choirs. They ...
06.27.2019 Indigo Girls — No Separation: On Music and Transcendence The folk-rock duo Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have been making music for over 25 years. They’re known for their social activism on-stage and off, but long before they became the Indigo Girls, they were singing in church choirs. They ...
06.20.2019 Jerry Colonna — Can You Really Bring Your Whole Self to Work? We still work with the old idea that we should check the messy parts of ourselves at the door of our professional lives. But Jerry Colonna says doing so cuts us off from the source of our creativity. “The result ...
06.20.2019 [Unedited] Jerry Colonna with Krista Tippett We still work with the old idea that we should check the messy parts of ourselves at the door of our professional lives. But Jerry Colonna says doing so cuts us off from the source of our creativity. “The result ...
06.13.2019 [Unedited] Richard Rohr with Krista Tippett Men of all ages say Richard Rohr has given them a new way into spiritual depth and religious thought through his writing and retreats. This conversation with the Franciscan spiritual teacher delves into the expansive scope of his ideas: from ...
06.13.2019 Richard Rohr — Growing Up Men Men of all ages say Richard Rohr has given them a new way into spiritual depth and religious thought through his writing and retreats. This conversation with the Franciscan spiritual teacher delves into the expansive scope of his ideas: from ...
06.06.2019 Jericho Brown — Small Truths and Other Surprises The poet Jericho Brown reminds us to bear witness to the complexity of the human experience, to interrogate the proximity of violence to love, and to look and listen closer so that we might uncover the small truths and surprises ...
06.06.2019 [Unedited] Jericho Brown with Krista Tippett The poet Jericho Brown reminds us to bear witness to the complexity of the human experience, to interrogate the proximity of violence to love, and to look and listen closer so that we might uncover the small truths and surprises ...
05.30.2019 Gregory Orr — Shaping Grief With Language There are places in the human experience where ordinary language falls short but where poetry can find a way in. Gregory Orr has used lyric poetry to wrest gentle, healing, life-giving words from one of the most terrible traumas imaginable. ...
05.30.2019 [Unedited] Gregory Orr with Krista Tippett There are places in the human experience where ordinary language falls short but where poetry can find a way in. Gregory Orr has used lyric poetry to wrest gentle, healing, life-giving words from one of the most terrible traumas imaginable. ...
05.23.2019 Abraham Verghese and Denise Pope — How Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up? Today young people are trying to balance the question of “What do I want to do when I grow up?” with the question of “Who and how do I want to be in the world?” Physician and writer Abraham Verghese ...
05.23.2019 [Unedited] Denise Pope and Abraham Verghese with Krista Tippett Today young people are trying to balance the question of “What do I want to do when I grow up?” with the question of “Who and how do I want to be in the world?” Physician and writer Abraham Verghese ...
05.16.2019 [Unedited] Rami Nashashibi and Lucas Johnson with Krista Tippett Community organizers Rami Nashashibi and Lucas Johnson have much to teach us about using love — the most reliable muscle of human transformation — as a practical public good. Nashashibi is the founder of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network, a ...
05.16.2019 Rami Nashashibi and Lucas Johnson — Community Organizing as a Spiritual Practice Community organizers Rami Nashashibi and Lucas Johnson have much to teach us about using love — the most reliable muscle of human transformation — as a practical public good. Nashashibi is the founder of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network, a ...
05.09.2019 [Unedited] Sylvia Boorstein and Krista Tippett Sylvia Boorstein says spirituality doesn’t have to look like sitting down and meditating. A Jewish-Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist, Boorstein says spirituality can be as simple as “folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in ...
05.09.2019 Sylvia Boorstein — What We Nurture Sylvia Boorstein says spirituality doesn’t have to look like sitting down and meditating. A Jewish-Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist, Boorstein says spirituality can be as simple as “folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in ...
05.02.2019 Atul Gawande — What Matters in the End “What does a good day look like?” That question — when asked of both terminally-ill and healthy people — has transformed Atul Gawande’s practice of medicine. A citizen physician and writer, Gawande is on the frontiers of human agency and ...
05.02.2019 [Unedited] Atul Gawande with Krista Tippett “What does a good day look like?” That question — when asked of both terminally-ill and healthy people — has transformed Atul Gawande’s practice of medicine. A citizen physician and writer, Gawande is on the frontiers of human agency and ...
04.25.2019 [Unedited] Joanna Macy with Krista Tippett A Buddhist philosopher of ecology, Joanna Macy says we are at a pivotal moment in history with the possibility to unravel or create a life-sustaining human society. Now entering her 90s, Macy has lived adventurously by any definition. She worked ...

Older episodes