A spectacular feat of engineering and creativity that you have to see to believe. And just guess what inspired its making. Just marvelous!
This Week's Conversation with Krista Tippett
June 13, 2013
Sarah Kay says that listening is the better part of speaking. A spoken word poet who’s become a role model for teenagers around the world, she shares how she works with words to make connections — inside people and between them.
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Are we in the matrix? Physicist James Gates reveals why string theory stretches our imaginations about the nature of reality. Also, how failure makes us more complete, and imagination makes us more knowledgeable.
You might call Tami Simon a spiritual entrepreneur. She's built a successful multimedia publishing company with a mission to disseminate "spiritual wisdom" by diverse teachers and thinkers like Pema Chödrön and Eckhart Tolle, Daniel Goleman and Brené Brown. She offers compelling lessons on joining inner life with life in the workplace — and advice on spiritual practice with a mobile device.
The poet Christian Wiman is giving voice to the hunger for faith — and the challenges of faith — for people living now. After a Texas upbringing soaked in a history of violence and a charismatic Christian culture, he was agnostic until he became actively religious again in his late 30s. Then he was diagnosed with a rare form of incurable blood cancer. He's bearing witness to something new happening in himself and in the world.
Disruption is around every corner by way of globally connected economies, inevitable superstorms, and technology’s endless reinvention. But most of us were born into a culture which aspired to solve all problems. How do we support people and create systems that know how to recover, persist, and even thrive in the face of change? Andrew Zolli introduces "resilience thinking," a new generation’s wisdom for a world of constant change.
The best way to nurture children's inner lives, Sylvia Boorstein says, is by taking care of our own inner selves for their sake. At a public event in suburban Detroit, Krista Tippett draws out the warmth and wisdom of the celebrated Jewish-Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist. And, in a light-hearted moment that is an audience pleaser, Boorstein shares what GPS might teach us about "recalculating" and our own inner equanimity.
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If you could stand in someone else's shoes... Hear what they hear. See what they see. Feel what they feel. Would you treat them differently? A video that speaks to the connections we all need.
Changes are afoot at On Being. A brief behind-the-scenes tour as we look for new creative space.
Martin Marty invites interfaith couples to reflect and tell their stories — and challenge the binary headlines.
A wandering reflection arriving at a "found poem." The muse? Our show with Marie Howe. Simply marvelous.
The Civil Conversations Project (CCP)
The Future of Marriage
with David Blankenhorn + Jonathan Rauch
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Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Pro-Dialogue
with David Gushee + Frances Kissling
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The Next Christians
with Jim Daly + Gabe Lyons
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Political Bridge People
with Pete Domenici + Alice Rivlin
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Upcoming Shows
The Syntax of Being: Joy Ladin on Gender, Femininity, and Identity
(June 20, 2013)
Gender defines us from the moment we’re born. But how is that related to the lifelong work of being at home in ourselves? For as far back as Joy Ladin can remember, her body didn’t match her soul. We explore this question through her story of transition from male to female — in an orthodox Jewish world.
