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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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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 ...

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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 ...
07.15.2021 Brian Greene — This Tiny Slice of Eternity If we didn’t have vast civilizational challenges upon us, we might be living in a constant state of wonder at what science in this century is learning and showing us about the cosmos and about ourselves — the new questions ...
07.15.2021 [Unedited] Brian Greene with Krista Tippett – 2021 Conversation If we didn’t have vast civilizational challenges upon us, we might be living in a constant state of wonder at what science in this century is learning and showing us about the cosmos and about ourselves — the new questions ...
07.08.2021 Esther Perel – The Erotic Is an Antidote to Death The psychotherapist Esther Perel has changed our discourse about sexuality and coupledom with her TED talks, her books, and her podcast, Where Should We Begin? Episode after episode lays bare the theater of relationship, which is also the drama of ...
07.08.2021 [Unedited] Esther Perel with Krista Tippett The psychotherapist Esther Perel has changed our discourse about sexuality and coupledom with her TED talks, her books, and her podcast, Where Should We Begin? Episode after episode lays bare the theater of relationship, which is also the drama of ...
07.01.2021 Jason Reynolds — Imagination and Fortitude Jason Reynolds is the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature of the Library of Congress — and a magnificent source of wisdom for human society as a whole. He’s driven by compassion and the clear-eyed honesty that the young both ...
07.01.2021 [Unedited] Jason Reynolds with Krista Tippett Jason Reynolds is the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature of the Library of Congress — and a magnificent source of wisdom for human society as a whole. He’s driven by compassion and the clear-eyed honesty that the young both ...
06.24.2021 Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows — ‘What a world you’ve got inside you.’ A new translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet has been released in a world in which his voice and vision feel as resonant as ever before. In ten letters to a young person in 1903, Rilke ...
06.24.2021 [Unedited] Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows with Krista Tippett A new translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet has been released in a world in which his voice and vision feel as resonant as ever before. In ten letters to a young person in 1903, Rilke ...
06.17.2021 Alex Elle — Self-Care as Generational Healing Alex Elle complicates the idea of self-care, opening it up as community-care, as a way towards generational healing. And she’s revivifying the meaning of meeting one’s “inner child” for a new generation. Our colleague Lily Percy says she could not ...
06.17.2021 [Unedited] Alex Elle with Liliana Maria Percy Ruiz Alex Elle complicates the idea of self-care, opening it up as community-care, as a way towards generational healing. And she’s revivifying the meaning of meeting one’s “inner child” for a new generation. Our colleague Lily Percy says she could not ...
06.10.2021 Nicholas Christakis — How We’re Wired for Goodness Elemental human capacities like friendship and love, teaching and learning, have tremendous, constant, practical force. We don’t think of these in terms of what has given our species the grit to endure through hard times and even evolve in the ...
06.10.2021 [Unedited] Nicholas Christakis with Krista Tippett Elemental human capacities like friendship and love, teaching and learning, have tremendous, constant, practical force. We don’t think of these in terms of what has given our species the grit to endure through hard times and even evolve in the ...
06.03.2021 Robert Macfarlane — The Worlds Beneath Our Feet There’s dark matter in the cosmos, and inside us, and hidden beneath our feet. Robert Macfarlane is an explorer and linguist of landscape and his book, Underland: A Deep Time Journey, is an odyssey that’s full of surprises — from ...
06.03.2021 [Unedited] Robert Macfarlane with Krista Tippett There’s dark matter in the cosmos, and inside us, and hidden beneath our feet. Robert Macfarlane is an explorer and linguist of landscape and his book, Underland: A Deep Time Journey, is an odyssey that’s full of surprises — from ...
05.27.2021 Tracy K. Smith and Michael Kleber-Diggs — ‘History is upon us... its hand against our back.’ The pandemic memoirs began almost immediately, and now comes another kind of offering — a searching look at the meaning of the racial catharsis to which the pandemic in some sense gave birth and voice and life. Tracy K. Smith ...
05.27.2021 [Unedited] Tracy K. Smith and Michael Kleber-Diggs with Krista Tippett The pandemic memoirs began almost immediately, and now comes another kind of offering — a searching look at the meaning of the racial catharsis to which the pandemic in some sense gave birth and voice and life. Tracy K. Smith ...
05.20.2021 Jill Tarter — 'It Takes a Cosmos to Make a Human' The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence — or SETI — goes beyond hunting for E.T. and habitable planets. Scientists in the field are using telescopes and satellites looking for signs of outright civilizational intelligence. One of the founding pioneers in this ...
05.20.2021 [Unedited] Jill Tarter with Krista Tippett The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence — or SETI — goes beyond hunting for E.T. and habitable planets. Scientists in the field are using telescopes and satellites looking for signs of outright civilizational intelligence. One of the founding pioneers in this ...
05.13.2021 Joy Harjo — The Whole of Time “Though we have instructions and a map buried in our hearts when we enter this world,” the extraordinary Joy Harjo has written, “nothing quite prepares us for the abrupt shift to the breathing realm.” She is a saxophone player and ...
05.13.2021 [Extended] Joy Harjo with Krista Tippett “Though we have instructions and a map buried in our hearts when we enter this world,” the extraordinary Joy Harjo has written, “nothing quite prepares us for the abrupt shift to the breathing realm.” She is a saxophone player and ...
05.06.2021 Daniel Kahneman – Why We Contradict Ourselves and Confound Each Other The classic economic theory embedded in western democracies holds an assumption that human beings will almost always behave rationally in the end and make logical choices that will keep our society balanced on the whole. Daniel Kahneman is the psychologist ...
05.06.2021 [Unedited] Daniel Kahneman with Krista Tippett The classic economic theory embedded in western democracies holds an assumption that human beings will almost always behave rationally in the end and make logical choices that will keep our society balanced on the whole. Daniel Kahneman is the psychologist ...
05.03.2021 Living the Questions — We’ve been enmeshed with our technologies. Tech Shabbat for everyone? Krista’s been in a conversation with Tiffany Shlain for several years about her practice of “Tech Shabbat.” For more than a decade, she and her family have taken a rest from screens sundown Friday to sundown Saturday; her book 24/6 ...
04.29.2021 Hanif Abdurraqib — Moments of Shared Witnessing Hanif Abdurraqib’s writing is filled with lyricism, rhythm, people and precision. In his essays and poetry, he introduces readers to a soundscape of Black performance and Black joy: we hear hip-hop and jazz, we hear Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin and ...
04.29.2021 [Unedited] Hanif Abdurraqib with Pádraig Ó Tuama Hanif Abdurraqib’s writing is filled with lyricism, rhythm, people and precision. In his essays and poetry, he introduces readers to a soundscape of Black performance and Black joy: we hear hip-hop and jazz, we hear Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin and ...
04.22.2021 Layli Long Soldier — The Freedom of Real Apologies Layli Long Soldier is a writer, a mother, a citizen of the United States, and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She has a way of opening up this part of her life, and of American life, to inspire ...
04.22.2021 [Unedited] Layli Long Soldier with Krista Tippett Layli Long Soldier is a writer, a mother, a citizen of the United States, and a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. She has a way of opening up this part of her life, and of American life, to inspire ...
04.15.2021 Resmaa Menakem — ‘Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence’ Across the past year, and now as the murder trial of Derek Chauvin unfolds with Minneapolis in fresh pain and turmoil, we return again to the grounding insights of Resmaa Menakem. He is a Minneapolis-based therapist and trauma specialist who ...
04.15.2021 [Unedited] Resmaa Menakem with Krista Tippett Across the past year, and now as the murder trial of Derek Chauvin unfolds with Minneapolis in fresh pain and turmoil, we return again to the grounding insights of Resmaa Menakem. He is a Minneapolis-based therapist and trauma specialist who ...
04.08.2021 Bryan Doerries — "You are not alone across time." “Remember,” Bryan Doerries likes to say in both physical and virtual gatherings, “you are not alone in this room — and you are not alone across time.” With his public health project, Theater of War, he is activating an old ...
04.08.2021 [Unedited] Bryan Doerries with Krista Tippett “Remember,” Bryan Doerries likes to say in both physical and virtual gatherings, “you are not alone in this room — and you are not alone across time.” With his public health project, Theater of War, he is activating an old ...
04.01.2021 Serene Jones — Grace in a Fractured World The glory that coexists in human life right alongside our weird propensity to choose what is not good for us; the difference between a place of sheer loss and a sacred space for mourning; grace as something muscular amidst the ...
04.01.2021 [Unedited] Serene Jones with Krista Tippett The glory that coexists in human life right alongside our weird propensity to choose what is not good for us; the difference between a place of sheer loss and a sacred space for mourning; grace as something muscular amidst the ...

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