On Being with Krista Tippett

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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.

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Oliver Burkeman – Time Mana...

01.13.2022

Journalist Oliver Burkeman has made a delightful and important philosophical, spiritual, and practical investigation of all that is truly at stake in what we blithely refer to as “time management.” At this time of year, many of us are making ...

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01.13.2022 Oliver Burkeman – Time Management for Mortals Journalist Oliver Burkeman has made a delightful and important philosophical, spiritual, and practical investigation of all that is truly at stake in what we blithely refer to as “time management.” At this time of year, many of us are making ...
01.13.2022 [Unedited] Oliver Burkeman with Krista Tippett Journalist Oliver Burkeman has made a delightful and important philosophical, spiritual, and practical investigation of all that is truly at stake in what we blithely refer to as “time management.” At this time of year, many of us are making ...
01.10.2022 Befriend Your Body: A Compassionate Body Scan In a time of stress, uncertainty, and isolation, Dr. Christine Runyan turns our attention to what often evades our awareness — the response of our nervous systems. As part of On Being's 2021 Midwinter Gathering, she offered this brief, practical, ...
01.06.2022 Remembering Desmond Tutu The remarkable Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town and Nobel Laureate died in the closing days of 2021. He helped galvanize South Africa's improbably peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy. He was a leader in the religious drama that transfigured South ...
01.06.2022 [Unedited] Desmond Tutu with Krista Tippett The remarkable Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town and Nobel Laureate died in the closing days of 2021. He helped galvanize South Africa's improbably peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy. He was a leader in the religious drama that transfigured South ...
12.30.2021 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 ...
12.30.2021 [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 ...
12.23.2021 Jeff Chu — A Life of Holy Curiosity (In Friendship with Rachel Held Evans) Here we are in a religiously-infused season — and in a world in which more and more of us experience ourselves to be religious nomads, misfits, even refugees. This deep reality of our life together is often simplified in analyses ...
12.23.2021 [Unedited] Jeff Chu with Krista Tippett Here we are in a religiously-infused season — and in a world in which more and more of us experience ourselves to be religious nomads, misfits, even refugees. This deep reality of our life together is often simplified in analyses ...
12.16.2021 Jane Hirshfield – The Fullness of Things The esteemed writer Jane Hirshfield has been a Zen monk and a visiting artist among neuroscientists. She has said this: “It’s my nature to question, to look at the opposite side. I believe that the best writing also does this ...
12.16.2021 [Unedited] Jane Hirshfield with Krista Tippett The esteemed writer Jane Hirshfield has been a Zen monk and a visiting artist among neuroscientists. She has said this: “It’s my nature to question, to look at the opposite side. I believe that the best writing also does this ...
12.09.2021 Katherine May – How ‘Wintering’ Replenishes In so many stories and fables that shape us, cold and snow, the closing in of the light — these have deep psychological as much as physical reality. This is “wintering,” as the English writer Katherine May illuminates in her ...
12.09.2021 [Unedited] Katherine May with Krista Tippett In so many stories and fables that shape us, cold and snow, the closing in of the light — these have deep psychological as much as physical reality. This is “wintering,” as the English writer Katherine May illuminates in her ...
12.02.2021 Vivek Murthy and Richard Davidson – The Future of Well-being What if the future of well-being is about “tipping the scales in the world away from fear and toward love”? And what if it’s a surgeon general of the United States, Dr. Vivek Murthy, who talks this way? Krista draws ...
12.02.2021 [Unedited] Vivek Murthy and Richard Davidson with Krista Tippett What if the future of well-being is about “tipping the scales in the world away from fear and toward love”? And what if it’s a surgeon general of the United States, Dr. Vivek Murthy, who talks this way? Krista draws ...
11.24.2021 Jane Goodall – What It Means to Be Human Jane Goodall’s early research studying chimpanzees helped shape the self-understanding of our species and recalled modern Western science to the fact that we are a part of nature, not separate from it. In honor of the publication of her 32nd ...
11.24.2021 [Unedited] Jane Goodall with Krista Tippett Jane Goodall’s early research studying chimpanzees helped shape the self-understanding of our species and recalled modern Western science to the fact that we are a part of nature, not separate from it. In honor of the publication of her 32nd ...
11.18.2021 Pico Iyer and Elizabeth Gilbert – The Future of Hope 3 Pico Iyer is an esteemed journalist and essayist, and an explorer of inner life — for himself and in 21st-century society. For this episode in our Future of Hope series, he draws out writer Elizabeth Gilbert and “her sense of ...
11.11.2021 Bessel van der Kolk – Trauma, the Body, and 2021 When Krista interviewed the psychiatrist and trauma specialist Bessel van der Kolk for the first time, his book The Body Keeps the Score was about to be published. She described him then as “an innovator in treating the effects of ...
11.11.2021 [Unedited] Bessel van der Kolk with Krista Tippett Krista interviewed the psychiatrist and trauma specialist Bessel van der Kolk for the first time in 2013, as his book The Body Keeps the Score was about to be published. He is an innovator in treating the effects of overwhelming ...
11.04.2021 Bryan Stevenson – Finding the Courage for What's Redemptive How to embrace what’s right and corrective, redemptive and restorative — and an insistence that each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve done — these are gifts Bryan Stevenson offers with his life. He’s brought the language ...
11.04.2021 [Unedited] Bryan Stevenson with Krista Tippett How to embrace what’s right and corrective, redemptive and restorative — and an insistence that each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve done — these are gifts Bryan Stevenson offers with his life. He’s brought the language ...
10.28.2021 Pádraig Ó Tuama and Marilyn Nelson – “So let us pick up the stones over which we stumble, friends, and build altars” Where to turn to find my place of standing when it feels like the world is on fire? This question surfaced in a public conversation Krista had just a couple of years ago with Pádraig Ó Tuama and Marilyn Nelson, ...
10.28.2021 [Unedited] Pádraig Ó Tuama and Marilyn Nelson with Krista Tippett Where to turn to find my place of standing when it feels like the world is on fire? This question surfaced in a public conversation Krista had just a couple of years ago with Pádraig Ó Tuama and Marilyn Nelson, ...
10.21.2021 Katharine Hayhoe – "Our future is still in our hands" Katharine Hayhoe is one of the most esteemed atmospheric scientists in the world. She’s made her mark by connecting dots between climate systems and weather patterns and the lived experience of human beings in their neighborhoods and communities. She’s also ...
10.21.2021 [Unedited] Katharine Hayhoe with Krista Tippett Katharine Hayhoe is one of the most esteemed atmospheric scientists in the world. She’s made her mark by connecting dots between climate systems and weather patterns and the lived experience of human beings in their neighborhoods and communities. She’s also ...
10.14.2021 Darnell Moore and dream hampton — The Future of Hope 2 We’re in a time as thick with uncertainty as with possibility. Many of us are still, and again, exhausted — and yet opening, fitfully, to what we’ve learned and have been called to at this moment in the life of ...
10.07.2021 Mike Rose – The Deepest Meanings of Intelligence and Vocation “I grew up a witness,” Mike Rose wrote, “to the intelligence of the waitress in motion, the reflective welder, the strategy of the guy on the assembly line. This then is something I know: the thought it takes to do ...
10.07.2021 [Unedited] Mike Rose with Krista Tippett “I grew up a witness,” Mike Rose wrote, “to the intelligence of the waitress in motion, the reflective welder, the strategy of the guy on the assembly line. This then is something I know: the thought it takes to do ...
09.30.2021 Priya Parker — Remaking Gathering: Entering the Mess, Crossing the Thresholds Priya Parker has become the voice of what it means to gather in this world we inhabit now. She is helping remake the “how” of coming together — and more importantly, the “why.” Long before the pandemic, she points out, ...
09.30.2021 [Unedited] Priya Parker with Krista Tippett Priya Parker has become the voice of what it means to gather in this world we inhabit now. She is helping remake the “how” of coming together — and more importantly, the “why.” Long before the pandemic, she points out, ...
09.23.2021 Stephen Batchelor – Finding Ease in Aloneness One of the great challenges of life is to learn to be alone peaceably, at home in oneself. The pandemic forced many of us inside both physically and emotionally, even if we were not home on our own. We’ve been ...
09.23.2021 [Unedited] Stephen Batchelor with Krista Tippett One of the great challenges of life is to learn to be alone peaceably, at home in oneself. The pandemic forced many of us inside both physically and emotionally, even if we were not home on our own. We’ve been ...
09.16.2021 Kate Bowler and Wajahat Ali — The Future of Hope An irreverent conversation about hope between journalist Wajahat Ali and theologian Kate Bowler. They speak to this moment we’re in through the friendship they found on the edge of life and death that is cancer — Wajahat through his young ...
09.14.2021 The Future of Hope — Trailer This past year has held layers of loss and grief and rupture as well as tectonic shifts of opening and learning and possibility. We walk into a world trying to open up, fitfully, that we must in many ways remake. ...
09.09.2021 Suzanne Simard — Forests Are Wired For Wisdom Suzanne Simard is the forest ecologist who has proven, beyond doubt, that trees communicate with each other — that a forest is a single organism wired for wisdom and care. Simard found that the processes that make for a high-functioning ...
09.09.2021 [Unedited] Suzanne Simard with Krista Tippett Suzanne Simard is the forest ecologist who has proven, beyond doubt, that trees communicate with each other — that a forest is a single organism wired for wisdom and care. Simard found that the processes that make for a high-functioning ...
09.02.2021 Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn – Truth, Beauty, Banjo We are digging into the archives to celebrate some of the conversations listeners have loved the most and that have shaped this project. Béla Fleck is one of the greatest living banjo players. He’s followed what many experience as this ...
09.02.2021 [Unedited] Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn with Krista Tippett We are digging into the archives to celebrate some of the conversations listeners have loved the most and that have shaped this project. Béla Fleck is one of the greatest living banjo players. He’s followed what many experience as this ...
08.26.2021 Luis Alberto Urrea — Borders Are Liminal Spaces The wonderful writer Luis Alberto Urrea says that a deep truth of our time is that “we miss each other.” He is singularly wise about the deep meaning and the problem of borders. The Mexican-American border, as he likes to ...
08.26.2021 [Unedited] Luis Alberto Urrea with Krista Tippett The wonderful writer Luis Alberto Urrea says that a deep truth of our time is that “we miss each other.” He is singularly wise about the deep meaning and the problem of borders. The Mexican-American border, as he likes to ...
08.19.2021 Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem — Towards a Framework for Repair Through the ruptures of the past year and more, we’ve been given so much to learn, and callings to live differently. But how to do that, and where to begin? Resmaa Menakem’s book, My Grandmother's Hands, and his original insights ...
08.19.2021 [Unedited] Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem with Krista Tippett Through the ruptures of the past year and more, we’ve been given so much to learn, and callings to live differently. But how to do that, and where to begin? Resmaa Menakem’s book, My Grandmother's Hands, and his original insights ...
08.12.2021 Kevin Kling — The Losses We Grow Into We are digging into the archives to celebrate some of the conversations listeners have loved the most and that have shaped this project. Kevin Kling is part funny guy, part poet and playwright, part wise man — homegrown Minnesota meets ...
08.05.2021 Sharon Salzberg — The Healing Is In The Return As we reflect back on 2020 and look ahead, how do we keep walking forward, and even find renewal along the way? How can we hold to our sense of what is whole and true and undamaged even in the ...
08.05.2021 [Unedited] Sharon Salzberg with Krista Tippett As we reflect back on 2020 and look ahead, how do we keep walking forward, and even find renewal along the way? How can we hold to our sense of what is whole and true and undamaged even in the ...
07.29.2021 Jen Bailey — What We Inherit & What We Send Forth “I’m entering into this next phase… with a great deal of curiosity and perhaps tenderness, wanting to hold each other tight, because I think that there are ramifications of last year that have yet to be felt.” Rev. Jen Bailey ...
07.29.2021 [Unedited] Jen Bailey with Krista Tippett “I’m entering into this next phase… with a great deal of curiosity and perhaps tenderness, wanting to hold each other tight, because I think that there are ramifications of last year that have yet to be felt.” Rev. Jen Bailey ...
07.22.2021 Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach — ‘Courage is the presence of fear, and going anyway.’ Glennon Doyle’s book Untamed has been a sensation of 2020 and beyond, and now she’s launched a new podcast titled with words of hers that have become a cultural force: We Can Do Hard Things. Meanwhile her wife, the soccer ...
07.22.2021 [Unedited] Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach with Krista Tippett Glennon Doyle’s book Untamed has been a sensation of 2020 and beyond, and now she’s launched a new podcast titled with words of hers that have become a cultural force: We Can Do Hard Things. Meanwhile her wife, the soccer ...

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