Sarah Kay's Way with Words (Encore).

Thursday, June 13 2013 05:00 PM

Sarah Kay is a 23-year-old spoken word poet who has become a role model and teacher to teenagers around the world. She puts words around what she knows about poetry, stories, and being human and connected in this age.

Sarah Kay and Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Thursday, June 13 2013 04:59 PM

Sarah Kay is a 23-year-old spoken word poet who has become a role model and teacher to teenagers around the world. She puts words around what she knows about poetry, stories, and being human and connected in this age.

Uncovering the Codes for Reality with S. James Gates (Encore).

Thursday, June 06 2013 05:00 PM

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.

S. James Gates Jr. and Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Thursday, June 06 2013 04:59 PM

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.

Inner Life at Work: Tami Simon on Business, Meditation, and Technology

Thursday, May 30 2013 05:00 PM

Tami Simon and Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Thursday, May 30 2013 04:59 PM

A Call to Doubt and Faith: Christian Wiman on Remembering God (Encore).

Thursday, May 23 2013 05:00 PM

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

Christian Wiman and Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Thursday, May 23 2013 04:59 PM

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

A Shift to Humility: Andrew Zolli on Resilience and Expanding the Edge of Change

Wednesday, May 15 2013 05:00 PM

Can resilience thinking be a successor to solutions-based strategies and even sustainability, both of which assume that balance can be achieved? Andrew Zolli is helping reframe our approach to everything from economic development to urban planning.

What We Nurture with Sylvia Boorstein (Encore).

Thursday, May 09 2013 05:00 PM

For Mother's Day, a delightful conversation with Sylvia Boorstein. The Jewish-Buddhist teacher, mother, and grandmother speaks about loving and teaching children in a complex world.

Sylvia Boorstein and Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Thursday, May 09 2013 04:59 PM

For Mother's Day, a delightful conversation with Sylvia Boorstein. The Jewish-Buddhist teacher, mother, and grandmother speaks about loving and teaching children in a complex world.

Creativity and the Everyday Brain with Rex Jung (Encore).

Thursday, May 02 2013 05:00 PM

How do we prime our brains to take the meandering mental paths necessary for creativity? New techniques of brain imaging, Rex Jung says, are helping us gain a whole new view on the differences between intelligence, creativity, and personality. He unsettle

Rex Jung and Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Thursday, May 02 2013 04:59 PM

How do we prime our brains to take the meandering mental paths necessary for creativity? New techniques of brain imaging, Rex Jung says, are helping us gain a whole new view on the differences between intelligence, creativity, and personality. He unsettle

The Poetry of Ordinary Time with Marie Howe

Thursday, April 25 2013 05:00 PM

An enchanting hour of poetry drawing on the ways family and religion shape our lives. Marie Howe works and plays with her Catholic upbringing, the universal drama of family, and the ordinary time that sustains us.

Marie Howe and Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Thursday, April 25 2013 04:59 PM

An enchanting hour of poetry drawing on the ways family and religion shape our lives. Marie Howe works and plays with her Catholic upbringing, the universal drama of family, and the ordinary time that sustains us.

A Voice for the Animals with Alan Rabinowitz (Encore).

Thursday, April 18 2013 05:00 PM

A profound stutter as a child left Alan Rabinowitz virtually unable to communicate and to prefer animals to people. Now a conservationist of tigers and jaguars, an explorer of the world's last wild places, he has extraordinary insight into both animals an

Alan Rabinowitz with Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Thursday, April 18 2013 04:59 PM

A profound stutter as a child left Alan Rabinowitz virtually unable to communicate and to prefer animals to people. Now a conservationist of tigers and jaguars, an explorer of the world's last wild places, he has extraordinary insight into both animals an

Our Origins and the Weight of Space with Lawrence Krauss

Tuesday, April 09 2013 05:00 PM

Lawrence Krauss with Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Tuesday, April 09 2013 04:59 PM

The Future of Marriage with David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch (Encore).

Thursday, April 04 2013 05:00 PM

David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch with Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Thursday, April 04 2013 04:59 PM

John Lewis on the Art & Discipline of Nonviolence

Thursday, March 28 2013 05:00 PM

The civil rights movement John Lewis helped animate was -- as he tells it -- love in action. He opens up the art and the discipline that made nonviolence work then -- and that he offers up for our common life even today.

John Lewis with Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Thursday, March 28 2013 04:59 PM

The civil rights movement John Lewis helped animate was -- as he tells it -- love in action. He opens up the art and the discipline that made nonviolence work then -- and that he offers up for our common life even today.

Whale Songs and Elephant Loves (Encore).

Thursday, March 21 2013 05:00 PM

Katy Payne is an acoustic biologist with a Quaker sensibility. From the wild coast of Argentina to the rainforests of Africa, she discovered that humpback whales compose ever-changing songs and that elephants communicate across long distances by infrasoun

Katy Payne with Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Thursday, March 21 2013 04:59 PM

Katy Payne is an acoustic biologist with a Quaker sensibility. From the wild coast of Argentina to the rainforests of Africa, she discovered that humpback whales compose ever-changing songs and that elephants communicate across long distances by infrasoun

The Great Cauldron of Story: Maria Tatar on Why Fairy Tales Are for Adults Again

Wednesday, March 13 2013 05:00 PM

Fairy tales' overt themes are threaded throughout hit TV series like Game of Thrones and True Blood, Grimm and Once Upon a Time. These stories survive by adapting across cultures and history -- helping us work through things like fear and hope.

Maria Tatar with Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Wednesday, March 13 2013 04:59 PM

Fairy tales' overt themes are threaded throughout hit TV series like Game of Thrones and True Blood, Grimm and Once Upon a Time. These stories survive by adapting across cultures and history -- helping us work through things like fear and hope.

The Losses and Laughter We Grow Into with Kevin Kling (Encore).

Thursday, March 07 2013 06:00 PM

Kevin Kling is part funny guy, part poet and playwright, part wise man. Born with a disabled left arm, he lost the use of his right one after a motorcycle accident nearly killed him. He shares his special angle on life's humor and its ruptures — and why w

Kevin Kling with Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Thursday, March 07 2013 05:59 PM

Kevin Kling is part funny guy, part poet and playwright, part wise man. Born with a disabled left arm, he lost the use of his right one after a motorcycle accident nearly killed him. He shares his special angle on life's humor and its ruptures — and why w

Father Greg Boyle on the Calling of Delight: Gangs, Service, Kinship

Tuesday, February 26 2013 06:00 PM

Fr. Greg Boyle on his work with gangs in L.A., connections between kinship and delight, and of finding delight in one another.

Father Greg Boyle with Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Tuesday, February 26 2013 05:59 PM

Fr. Greg Boyle on his work with gangs in L.A., connections between kinship and delight, and of finding delight in one another.

Translating the Dalai Lama with Thupten Jinpa (Encore).

Thursday, February 21 2013 06:00 PM

Thupten Jinpa, a Buddhist scholar and former monk, is the Dalai Lama's chief English translator. He shares the intricacies of Tibetan Buddhism that can't be conveyed in public teachings, and what happens when this ancient tradition meets modern science

Thupten Jinpa with Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Thursday, February 21 2013 05:59 PM

Thupten Jinpa, a Buddhist scholar and former monk, is the Dalai Lama's chief English translator. He shares the intricacies of Tibetan Buddhism that can't be conveyed in public teachings, and what happens when this ancient tradition meets modern science

On Exoplanets and Love: Natalie Batalha on Science That Connects Us to One Another

Tuesday, February 12 2013 06:00 PM

Natalie Batalha with Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Tuesday, February 12 2013 05:59 PM

Civility, History, and Hope with Vincent Harding (Encore).

Thursday, February 07 2013 06:00 PM

Vincent Harding with Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Thursday, February 07 2013 05:59 PM

Rami Nashashibi's American Dream

Thursday, January 31 2013 06:00 PM

Rami Nashashibi with Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Thursday, January 31 2013 05:59 PM

Seth Godin on the Art of Noticing, and Then Creating

Thursday, January 24 2013 06:00 PM

Seth Godin with Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Thursday, January 24 2013 05:59 PM

Elizabeth Alexander on Words That Shimmer (Encore).

Thursday, January 17 2013 06:00 PM

Poetry is something many of us seem to be hungry for these days. We're hungry for fresh ways to tell hard truths and redemptive stories, for language that would elevate and embolden rather than demean and alienate. Elizabeth Alexander shares her sense of

Elizabeth Alexander with Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Thursday, January 17 2013 05:59 PM

Poetry is something many of us seem to be hungry for these days. We're hungry for fresh ways to tell hard truths and redemptive stories, for language that would elevate and embolden rather than demean and alienate. Elizabeth Alexander shares her sense of

Compassion's Edge States: Roshi Joan Halifax on Caring Better

Thursday, January 10 2013 06:00 PM

Joan Halifax with Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Thursday, January 10 2013 05:59 PM

Unfolding Language, Unfolding Life with Jean Berko Gleason (Encore).

Thursday, January 03 2013 06:00 PM

Learning to talk, acquiring language, is one of the most remarkable and ordinary things human beings do. A playful conversation with a legend in the field of psycholinguistics, who says it’s as thrilling a frontier as outer space or the deep sea.

Jean Berko Gleason with Krista Tippett [Unedited Interview]

Thursday, January 03 2013 05:59 PM

Learning to talk, acquiring language, is one of the most remarkable and ordinary things human beings do. A playful conversation with a legend in the field of psycholinguistics, who says it’s as thrilling a frontier as outer space or the deep sea.

Opening to Our Lives: Jon Kabat-Zinn's Science of Mindfulness (Encore).

Thursday, December 27 2012 06:00 PM

Jon Kabat-Zinn has learned, through science and experience, about mindfulness as a way of life. This is wisdom with immediate relevance to the ordinary and extreme stresses of our time — from economic peril, to parenting, to life in a digital age.

Unedited Interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn and Krista Tippett

Thursday, December 27 2012 05:59 PM

Jon Kabat-Zinn has learned, through science and experience, about mindfulness as a way of life. This is wisdom with immediate relevance to the ordinary and extreme stresses of our time — from economic peril, to parenting, to life in a digital age.

Teilhard de Chardin's 'Planetary Mind' and Our Spiritual Evolution

Thursday, December 20 2012 06:00 PM

Unedited Interview with Ursula King

Thursday, December 20 2012 05:59 PM

Unedited Interview with David Sloan Wilson

Thursday, December 20 2012 05:59 PM

Unedited Interview with Andrew Revkin

Thursday, December 20 2012 05:59 PM

Presence in the Wild with Kate Braestrup (Encore).

Thursday, December 13 2012 06:00 PM

Kate Braestrup is a chaplain to game wardens, often on search and rescue missions, in the wilds of Maine. She works, as she puts it, at hinges of human experience when lives alter unexpectedly — where loss, disaster, decency, and beauty intertwine.

Unedited Interview with Kate Braestrup

Thursday, December 13 2012 05:59 PM

Kate Braestrup is a chaplain to game wardens, often on search and rescue missions, in the wilds of Maine. She works, as she puts it, at hinges of human experience when lives alter unexpectedly — where loss, disaster, decency, and beauty intertwine.

The Spiritual Audacity of Abraham Joshua Heschel (Encore).

Thursday, December 06 2012 06:00 PM

Abraham Joshua Heschel insisted that the opposite of good is not evil, it is indifference. Born into an esteemed Hasidic family in Poland in 1907, he was a mystic who wrote transcendent, poetic words about God. At the same time, he marched alongside Marti

Unedited Interview with Arnold Eisen

Thursday, December 06 2012 05:59 PM

Abraham Joshua Heschel insisted that the opposite of good is not evil, it is indifference. Born into an esteemed Hasidic family in Poland in 1907, he was a mystic who wrote transcendent, poetic words about God. At the same time, he marched alongside Marti

No More Taking Sides with Robi Damelin and Ali Abu Awwad (Encore).

Thursday, November 29 2012 06:00 PM

Robi Damelin lost her son David to a Palestinian sniper. Ali Abu Awwad lost his older brother Yousef to an Israeli soldier. But, instead of clinging to traditional ideologies and turning their pain into more violence, they've decided to understand the oth

Unedited Interview with Robi Damelin and Ali Abu Awwad

Thursday, November 29 2012 05:59 PM

Robi Damelin lost her son David to a Palestinian sniper. Ali Abu Awwad lost his older brother Yousef to an Israeli soldier. But, instead of clinging to traditional ideologies and turning their pain into more violence, they've decided to understand the oth

Brené Brown on Vulnerability

Wednesday, November 21 2012 06:00 PM

Courage is borne out of vulnerability, not strength. This finding of Brené Brown’s research on shame and "wholeheartedness" shook the perfectionist ground beneath her own feet. And now it’s inspiring millions to reconsider the way they live and parent.

Unedited Interview with Brené Brown

Wednesday, November 21 2012 05:59 PM

Courage is borne out of vulnerability, not strength. This finding of Brené Brown’s research on shame and "wholeheartedness" shook the perfectionist ground beneath her own feet. And now it’s inspiring millions to reconsider the way they live and parent.

Alive Enough? Reflecting on Our Technology with Sherry Turkle (Encore).

Thursday, November 15 2012 06:00 PM

Sherry Turkle directs the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Her book, Alone Together, created a catchword for anxiety about the alienating potential of technology. But that's not really her message. We explore the real challenge she poses — that we c

Unedited Interview with Sherry Turkle

Thursday, November 15 2012 05:59 PM

Sherry Turkle directs the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Her book, Alone Together, created a catchword for anxiety about the alienating potential of technology. But that's not really her message. We explore the real challenge she poses — that we c

Marilynne Robinson + Marcelo Gleiser on The Mystery We Are

Thursday, November 08 2012 06:00 PM

Unedited Interview with Marilynne Robinson + Marcelo Gleiser

Thursday, November 08 2012 05:59 PM

A Wild Love For the World with Joanna Macy (Encore).

Thursday, November 01 2012 05:00 PM

Joanna Macy is a philosopher of ecology, a Buddhist scholar, and an exquisite translator of the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. We take that poetry as a lens on her wisdom, at 81, on spiritual life and its relevance for the great dramas of our time.

Unedited Interview with Joanna Macy

Thursday, November 01 2012 04:59 PM

Joanna Macy is a philosopher of ecology, a Buddhist scholar, and an exquisite translator of the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. We take that poetry as a lens on her wisdom, at 81, on spiritual life and its relevance for the great dramas of our time.

Political Bridge People with Sen. Pete Domenici and Alice Rivlin

Thursday, October 25 2012 05:00 PM

Unedited Interview with Pete Domenici and Alice Rivlin

Thursday, October 25 2012 04:59 PM

Catching Song with Bobby McFerrin (Encore).

Thursday, October 11 2012 05:00 PM

He is a genius of improvisation; a genre-bending vocal magician and conductor. And he sings the territory between music, mystery, and spirit. Who better to contemplate the human voice — its delights, its revelations, and its mystery — than Bobby McFerrin?

Unedited Interview with Bobby McFerrin

Thursday, October 11 2012 04:59 PM

He is a genius of improvisation; a genre-bending vocal magician and conductor. And he sings the territory between music, mystery, and spirit. Who better to contemplate the human voice — its delights, its revelations, and its mystery — than Bobby McFerrin?

Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Pro-Dialogue with David Gushee + Frances Kissling

Thursday, October 04 2012 05:00 PM

Krista Tippett's unedited interview with David Gushee and Frances Kissling

Thursday, October 04 2012 04:59 PM

The Science of Healing Places with Esther Sternberg

Thursday, September 27 2012 05:00 PM

Unedited Interview with Esther Sternberg

Thursday, September 27 2012 04:59 PM

The Next Christians with Jim Daly and Gabe Lyons

Thursday, September 20 2012 05:00 PM

Unedited Interview with Jim Daly and Gabe Lyons

Thursday, September 20 2012 04:59 PM

The Dignity of Difference (Encore).

Thursday, September 13 2012 05:00 PM

A stimulating conversation with one of the world's great thinkers on the promise and perils of religion. He senses that a core imperative of the 21st century is that we must cultivate strong identities as a way to honor what he evocatively calls "the d

Unedited Interview with Lord Jonathan Sacks

Thursday, September 13 2012 04:59 PM

A stimulating conversation with one of the world's great thinkers on the promise and perils of religion. He senses that a core imperative of the 21st century is that we must cultivate strong identities as a way to honor what he evocatively calls "the d

Alain de Botton on a School of Life for Atheists

Thursday, September 06 2012 05:00 PM

Alain de Botton

Thursday, September 06 2012 04:59 PM

Mike Rose on The Meaning of Intelligence (Encore).

Thursday, August 30 2012 05:00 PM

An expansive reflection on work, education, and civic imagination with an esteemed researcher and teacher at UCLA and a poetic writer. We explore his perspective, through life and scholarship, on hard subjects that drive to the heart of who we are -- l

Unedited Interview with Mike Rose

Thursday, August 30 2012 04:59 PM

An expansive reflection on work, education, and civic imagination with an esteemed researcher and teacher at UCLA and a poetic writer. We explore his perspective, through life and scholarship, on hard subjects that drive to the heart of who we are -- l

Mormon Demystified with Joanna Brooks (Encore).

Thursday, August 23 2012 05:00 PM

oanna Brooks has become a go-to voice during our national inspection of Mormonism in this presidential campaign. She opens a window on Mormonism as an evolving and far from monolithic faith.

Unedited Interview with Joanna Brooks

Thursday, August 23 2012 04:59 PM

oanna Brooks has become a go-to voice during our national inspection of Mormonism in this presidential campaign. She opens a window on Mormonism as an evolving and far from monolithic faith.

Fragility and the Evolution of Our Humanity with Xavier Le Pichon (Encore).

Thursday, August 16 2012 05:00 PM

Xavier Le Pichon, one of the world's leading geophysicists, helped create the field of plate tectonics. A devout Catholic and spiritual thinker, he has come to think of caring attention to weakness as an essential quality that allowed humanity to evolve.

Unedited Interview with Xavier Le Pichon

Thursday, August 16 2012 04:59 PM

Xavier Le Pichon, one of the world's leading geophysicists, helped create the field of plate tectonics. A devout Catholic and spiritual thinker, he has come to think of caring attention to weakness as an essential quality that allowed humanity to evolve.

Rosanne Cash, Time Traveler (Encore).

Thursday, August 09 2012 05:00 PM

As the daughter of Johnny Cash, singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash describes her life as one "circumscribed by music." But, it's through her love of language and quantum mechanics that she's finding new sources of creativity and mathematical ways to think abo

Unedited Interview with Rosanne Cash

Thursday, August 09 2012 04:59 PM

As the daughter of Johnny Cash, singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash describes her life as one "circumscribed by music." But, it's through her love of language and quantum mechanics that she's finding new sources of creativity and mathematical ways to think abo

Spiritual Boundaries in Modern Turkey with Fr. Alberto Ambrosio and Metropolitan Elpidophoros Lambriniadis

Thursday, August 02 2012 05:00 PM

Fr. Alberto Ambrosio

Thursday, August 02 2012 04:59 PM

Elpidophoros Lambriniadis

Thursday, August 02 2012 04:59 PM

The Far Shore of Aging (Encore).

Thursday, July 26 2012 05:00 PM

We are living longer, for better and for worse. And the story of aging is one that too often goes untended. Our guest tells us that we not only have to care for our parents — but for ourselves.

Unedited Interview with Jane Gross

Thursday, July 26 2012 04:59 PM

We are living longer, for better and for worse. And the story of aging is one that too often goes untended. Our guest tells us that we not only have to care for our parents — but for ourselves.

The Vitality of the Struggle (Encore).

Thursday, July 19 2012 05:00 PM

The naturalist and writer Terry Tempest Williams offers notions of neighborliness, sacred rage, and beauty as a matter of survival. And she sheds light on the American West as a crucible of American divides and possibilities.

Unedited Interview with Terry Tempest Williams

Thursday, July 19 2012 04:59 PM

The naturalist and writer Terry Tempest Williams offers notions of neighborliness, sacred rage, and beauty as a matter of survival. And she sheds light on the American West as a crucible of American divides and possibilities.

Mustafa Akyol on Religion, Democracy, and the New Turkey

Thursday, July 12 2012 05:00 PM

Unedited Interview with Mustafa Akyol (Jul 12, 2012)

Thursday, July 12 2012 04:59 PM

Driven By Flavor with Dan Barber (Encore).

Thursday, July 05 2012 05:00 PM

Dan Barber is a celebrated young chef — but his passionate ethics and intellect have made him much more. He's out to restore food to its rightful place vis-à-vis our bodies, our ecologies and our economies. And he would do this by resurrecting our natural

Unedited Interview with Dan Barber

Thursday, July 05 2012 04:59 PM

Dan Barber is a celebrated young chef — but his passionate ethics and intellect have made him much more. He's out to restore food to its rightful place vis-à-vis our bodies, our ecologies and our economies. And he would do this by resurrecting our natural

The Inward Work of Democracy with Jacob Needleman (Encore).

Thursday, June 28 2012 05:00 PM

As young democracies emerge around the world, we take a long view of the ingredients that formed this democracy well beyond July 4, 1776. The philosopher Jacob Needleman reminds us of the inward work of conscience behind institutions and political values

Unedited Interview with Jacob Needleman

Thursday, June 28 2012 04:59 PM

As young democracies emerge around the world, we take a long view of the ingredients that formed this democracy well beyond July 4, 1776. The philosopher Jacob Needleman reminds us of the inward work of conscience behind institutions and political values

Evolving a City

Thursday, June 21 2012 05:00 PM

David Sloan Wilson believes that evolution is not just a description of how we got here. He says it can also be a tool kit for improving how we live together.

Unedited Interview with David Sloan Wilson

Thursday, June 21 2012 04:59 PM

David Sloan Wilson believes that evolution is not just a description of how we got here. He says it can also be a tool kit for improving how we live together.

Investigating Healthy Minds with Richard Davidson (Encore).

Thursday, June 14 2012 05:00 PM

Once upon a time we assumed the brain stops developing when we're young. Neuroscientist Richard Davidson helped overturn this idea by studying the brains of meditating Buddhist monks. Now he's working on conditions like ADHD and autism.

Unedited Interview with Richard Davidson

Thursday, June 14 2012 04:59 PM

Once upon a time we assumed the brain stops developing when we're young. Neuroscientist Richard Davidson helped overturn this idea by studying the brains of meditating Buddhist monks. Now he's working on conditions like ADHD and autism.

Oceanographer Sylvia Earle

Thursday, June 07 2012 05:00 PM

Oceanographer Sylvia Earle has done something no one else has -- walked solo on the bottom of the sea, under a quarter mile of water. She tells what she saw -- and what she has learned -- about the giant, living system that is the ocean.

Unedited Interview with Sylvia Earle

Thursday, June 07 2012 04:59 PM

Oceanographer Sylvia Earle has done something no one else has -- walked solo on the bottom of the sea, under a quarter mile of water. She tells what she saw -- and what she has learned -- about the giant, living system that is the ocean.

Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth (Encore).

Thursday, May 31 2012 05:00 PM

With physicist Janna Levin, we explore echoes between mathematics and great existential questions -- the nature of truth, free will, and how science informs the meaning of life.

Unedited Interview with Janna Levin

Thursday, May 31 2012 04:59 PM

With physicist Janna Levin, we explore echoes between mathematics and great existential questions -- the nature of truth, free will, and how science informs the meaning of life.

Getting Revenge and Forgiveness (Encore).

Thursday, May 24 2012 05:00 PM

Michael McCullough describes science that helps us comprehend how revenge came to have a purpose in human life. He stresses science is revealing that human beings are more instinctively equipped for forgiveness than we've given ourselves credit for.

Unedited Interview with Michael McCullough

Thursday, May 24 2012 04:59 PM

Michael McCullough describes science that helps us comprehend how revenge came to have a purpose in human life. He stresses science is revealing that human beings are more instinctively equipped for forgiveness than we've given ourselves credit for.

The Last Quiet Places

Thursday, May 10 2012 05:00 PM

Gordon Hempton says that silence is an endangered species. He defines real quiet as presence — not an absence of sound, but an absence of noise. The Earth, as he knows it, is a "solar-powered jukebox" and quiet is a "think tank of the soul."

Unedited Interview with Gordon Hempton

Thursday, May 10 2012 04:59 PM

Gordon Hempton says that silence is an endangered species. He defines real quiet as presence — not an absence of sound, but an absence of noise. The Earth, as he knows it, is a "solar-powered jukebox" and quiet is a "think tank of the soul."

The Body's Grace, Matthew Sanford's Story (Encore).

Thursday, May 03 2012 05:00 PM

Yoga teacher Matthew Sanford has been paraplegic since the age of 13. He shares his unusual take on the mind-body connection — and his wisdom on knowing the strength and grace of our bodies, even in the face of trauma and aging.

Unedited Interview with Matthew Sanford

Thursday, May 03 2012 04:59 PM

Yoga teacher Matthew Sanford has been paraplegic since the age of 13. He shares his unusual take on the mind-body connection — and his wisdom on knowing the strength and grace of our bodies, even in the face of trauma and aging.

Contemplating Mortality

Thursday, April 26 2012 05:00 PM

Unedited Interview with Ira Byock

Thursday, April 26 2012 04:59 PM

Reimagining Sitting Bull, Tatanka Iyotake (Encore).

Thursday, April 19 2012 05:00 PM

As some Lakota make an annual pilgrimage on horseback to Wounded Knee in memory of Sitting Bull's death, we'll pull out some of the lesser known threads of the legacy of this complex leader and American icon. And we'll explore why his spiritual character

Unedited Interview with Ernie LaPointe

Thursday, April 19 2012 04:59 PM

As some Lakota make an annual pilgrimage on horseback to Wounded Knee in memory of Sitting Bull's death, we'll pull out some of the lesser known threads of the legacy of this complex leader and American icon. And we'll explore why his spiritual character

Unedited Interview with Cedric Good House

Thursday, April 19 2012 04:59 PM

As some Lakota make an annual pilgrimage on horseback to Wounded Knee in memory of Sitting Bull's death, we'll pull out some of the lesser known threads of the legacy of this complex leader and American icon. And we'll explore why his spiritual character

Unedited Interview with Carole Barrett

Thursday, April 19 2012 04:59 PM

As some Lakota make an annual pilgrimage on horseback to Wounded Knee in memory of Sitting Bull's death, we'll pull out some of the lesser known threads of the legacy of this complex leader and American icon. And we'll explore why his spiritual character

Restoring the Senses: Gardening and Orthodox Easter (Encore).

Thursday, April 05 2012 05:00 PM

An understanding of Easter from inside the Armenian Orthodox tradition that is at once mystical and literally down to earth. With Vigen Guorian.

Unedited Interview with Vigen Guroian

Thursday, April 05 2012 04:59 PM

An understanding of Easter from inside the Armenian Orthodox tradition that is at once mystical and literally down to earth. With Vigen Guorian.

The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi (Encore).

Thursday, March 08 2012 06:00 PM

The 13th-century Muslim mystic and poet Rumi has long shaped Muslims around the world and has now become popular in the West. Rumi created a new language of love within the Islamic mystical tradition of Sufism. We hear his poetry as we delve into his worl

Unedited Interview with Fatemeh Keshavarz

Thursday, March 08 2012 05:59 PM

The 13th-century Muslim mystic and poet Rumi has long shaped Muslims around the world and has now become popular in the West. Rumi created a new language of love within the Islamic mystical tradition of Sufism. We hear his poetry as we delve into his worl

Desmond Tutu's God of Surprises (Encore).

Thursday, February 23 2012 06:00 PM

Desmond Tutu says that despite all the evil and suffering in the world, human beings are "remarkable things" who are "made for goodness." We explore how his understanding of God and humanity has unfolded through the history he's shaped — and even through

Unedited Interview with Desmond Tutu

Thursday, February 23 2012 05:59 PM

Desmond Tutu says that despite all the evil and suffering in the world, human beings are "remarkable things" who are "made for goodness." We explore how his understanding of God and humanity has unfolded through the history he's shaped — and even through

Meredith Monk's Voice (Encore).

Thursday, February 16 2012 06:00 PM

Singer and composer Meredith Monk is a kind of archeologist of the human voice. She says that "the voice could be like the body" — flexible and fluid with practice. Through music as through meditation, the longtime Buddhist practitioner pushes the boundar

Unedited Interview with Meredith Monk

Thursday, February 16 2012 05:59 PM

Singer and composer Meredith Monk is a kind of archeologist of the human voice. She says that "the voice could be like the body" — flexible and fluid with practice. Through music as through meditation, the longtime Buddhist practitioner pushes the boundar

Journalism and Compassion (Encore).

Thursday, February 09 2012 06:00 PM

Can journalism be a humanitarian art? New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has learned that reportage can deaden rather than awaken the consciousness, much less the hearts, of his readers. He shares his wide ethical lens he's gained on human

Unedited Interview with Nicholas Kristof

Thursday, February 09 2012 05:59 PM

Can journalism be a humanitarian art? New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has learned that reportage can deaden rather than awaken the consciousness, much less the hearts, of his readers. He shares his wide ethical lens he's gained on human

Toward Living Memory (Encore).

Thursday, February 02 2012 06:00 PM

For Black History Month: a MacArthur "genius" who's unearthing an especially painful chapter of the American experience — the intersecting history of African-Americans and Native Americans, and the little-known narratives that Cherokee landowners held bla

Unedited Interview with Tiya Miles

Thursday, February 02 2012 05:59 PM

For Black History Month: a MacArthur "genius" who's unearthing an especially painful chapter of the American experience — the intersecting history of African-Americans and Native Americans, and the little-known narratives that Cherokee landowners held bla

The Inner Landscape of Beauty (Encore).

Thursday, January 26 2012 06:00 PM

Poet/philosopher, John O'Donohue, is beloved for his book Anam Ċara, Gaelic for "soul friend," and for his insistence on beauty as a human calling and a defining aspect of God. In one of his last interviews before his death in 2008, he articula

Unedited Interview with John O'Donohue

Thursday, January 26 2012 05:59 PM

Poet/philosopher, John O'Donohue, is beloved for his book Anam Ċara, Gaelic for "soul friend," and for his insistence on beauty as a human calling and a defining aspect of God. In one of his last interviews before his death in 2008, he articula

Becoming Detroit (Encore).

Thursday, January 19 2012 06:00 PM

A Detroit you probably haven't seen in the news. It's a city of vigor — a place where neighbors are reimagining work, food, and the very meaning of humanity. To meet these people is to gain perspective on all of our work and imagine possibility.

Unedited Interview with Grace Lee Boggs

Thursday, January 19 2012 05:59 PM

A Detroit you probably haven't seen in the news. It's a city of vigor — a place where neighbors are reimagining work, food, and the very meaning of humanity. To meet these people is to gain perspective on all of our work and imagine possibility.

Unedited Interview with Richard Feldman

Thursday, January 19 2012 05:59 PM

A Detroit you probably haven't seen in the news. It's a city of vigor — a place where neighbors are reimagining work, food, and the very meaning of humanity. To meet these people is to gain perspective on all of our work and imagine possibility.

Unedited Interview with Gloria Lowe

Thursday, January 19 2012 05:59 PM

A Detroit you probably haven't seen in the news. It's a city of vigor — a place where neighbors are reimagining work, food, and the very meaning of humanity. To meet these people is to gain perspective on all of our work and imagine possibility.

Unedited Interview with Wayne Curtis + Myrtle Thompson

Thursday, January 19 2012 05:59 PM

A Detroit you probably haven't seen in the news. It's a city of vigor — a place where neighbors are reimagining work, food, and the very meaning of humanity. To meet these people is to gain perspective on all of our work and imagine possibility.

The Art of Peace (Encore).

Thursday, January 12 2012 06:00 PM

What happens when people transcend violence while living in it? John Paul Lederach shifts the language and lens of the very notion of conflict resolution.

Unedited Interview with John Paul Lederach

Thursday, January 12 2012 05:59 PM

What happens when people transcend violence while living in it? John Paul Lederach shifts the language and lens of the very notion of conflict resolution.

Pursuing Happiness with the Dalai Lama (Encore).

Thursday, December 29 2011 06:00 PM

The XIV Dalai Lama seems to many to embody happiness — happiness against the odds, a virtue that is acquired and practiced. Before a live audience in Atlanta, Georgia, Krista had a rare opportunity to mull over the meaning of happiness in contemporary lif

Unedited interview with The Dalai Lama, et al.

Thursday, December 29 2011 05:59 PM

The XIV Dalai Lama seems to many to embody happiness — happiness against the odds, a virtue that is acquired and practiced. Before a live audience in Atlanta, Georgia, Krista had a rare opportunity to mull over the meaning of happiness in contemporary lif

The Prophetic Imagination of Walter Brueggemann (Encore).

Thursday, December 22 2011 06:00 PM

The people we later recognize as prophets, says Bible scholar Walter Brueggemann, are also poets. They reframe what is at stake in chaotic times. Hear a very special voice in conversation to address our changing lives and the deepest meaning of hope this

Unedited Interview with Walter Brueggemann

Thursday, December 22 2011 05:59 PM

The people we later recognize as prophets, says Bible scholar Walter Brueggemann, are also poets. They reframe what is at stake in chaotic times. Hear a very special voice in conversation to address our changing lives and the deepest meaning of hope this

Legends to Live By with Scott-Martin Kosofsky (Encore).

Thursday, December 15 2011 06:00 PM

Could a Yiddish text from the Middle Ages serve as a guide to living now? Book composer and typographer Scott-Martin Kosofsky revives unlikely sources of "customs" for leading a modern life and marking sacred time. For Hanukkah and all the seasons upon us

Unedited Interview with Scott-Martin Kosofsky

Thursday, December 15 2011 05:59 PM

Could a Yiddish text from the Middle Ages serve as a guide to living now? Book composer and typographer Scott-Martin Kosofsky revives unlikely sources of "customs" for leading a modern life and marking sacred time. For Hanukkah and all the seasons upon us

Who Ordered This? (Encore).

Thursday, December 08 2011 06:00 PM

Astrophysicist Mario Livio works with science the Hubble Space Telescope makes possible. He is not a religious person. But he's fascinated with the enduring mystery of the very language of science, mathematics.

Unedited Interview with Mario Livio

Thursday, December 08 2011 05:59 PM

Astrophysicist Mario Livio works with science the Hubble Space Telescope makes possible. He is not a religious person. But he's fascinated with the enduring mystery of the very language of science, mathematics.

Monsters We Love: TV's Pop Culture Theodicy

Thursday, December 01 2011 06:00 PM

Amoral zombies. Loving vampires. Righteous serial killers. And lots of God. That's all in the new TV season — a place where great writers and actors are telling the story of our time — playfully, violently, soulfully.

Unedited Interview with Diane Winston

Thursday, December 01 2011 05:59 PM

Amoral zombies. Loving vampires. Righteous serial killers. And lots of God. That's all in the new TV season — a place where great writers and actors are telling the story of our time — playfully, violently, soulfully.

The Poetry of Creatures (Encore).

Thursday, November 24 2011 06:00 PM

How we see the world is how we value it, says Ellen Davis. And poetry is a way to rediscover the lost art of being creatures. An hour of learning and slowing down, with the "Mad Farmer" poems of Wendell Berry and a new way to take in the "poetry" of Genes

Unedited Interview with Ellen Davis

Thursday, November 24 2011 05:59 PM

How we see the world is how we value it, says Ellen Davis. And poetry is a way to rediscover the lost art of being creatures. An hour of learning and slowing down, with the "Mad Farmer" poems of Wendell Berry and a new way to take in the "poetry" of Genes

Occupying the Gospel (Encore).

Thursday, November 17 2011 06:00 PM

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush opens up a hidden but possibly re-emerging influence in the DNA of American Christianity, reaching back to the Social Gospel movement at the turn of the 20th century. And, the Huffington Post religion editor shares what he's lear

Unedited Interview with Paul Raushenbush

Thursday, November 17 2011 05:59 PM

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush opens up a hidden but possibly re-emerging influence in the DNA of American Christianity, reaching back to the Social Gospel movement at the turn of the 20th century. And, the Huffington Post religion editor shares what he's lear

Holding Life Consciously (Encore).

Thursday, November 10 2011 06:00 PM

What happens when you bring together science and poetry on something like color or light? Arthur Zajonc is a physicist and contemplative. And he says we can all investigate life as vigorously from the inside as from the outside.

Unedited Interview with Arthur Zajonc

Thursday, November 10 2011 05:59 PM

What happens when you bring together science and poetry on something like color or light? Arthur Zajonc is a physicist and contemplative. And he says we can all investigate life as vigorously from the inside as from the outside.

The Happiest Man in the World - Meeting Matthieu Ricard (Encore).

Thursday, October 27 2011 05:00 PM

A renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher shares his thoughts on the meaning of happiness, and how he understands spirituality as "contemplative science."

Unedited Interview with Matthieu Ricard

Thursday, October 27 2011 04:59 PM

A renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher shares his thoughts on the meaning of happiness, and how he understands spirituality as "contemplative science."

The Genesis of Desire (Encore).

Thursday, October 06 2011 05:00 PM

What may one of the great literary teachers of Torah and midrash — the Jewish tradition of reading between the lines of the Bible to uncover hidden layers of meaning — teach us about our own human longings? Hear what happens when she takes on Noah and the

Unedited Interview with Avivah Zornberg

Thursday, October 06 2011 04:59 PM

What may one of the great literary teachers of Torah and midrash — the Jewish tradition of reading between the lines of the Bible to uncover hidden layers of meaning — teach us about our own human longings? Hear what happens when she takes on Noah and the

Planting the Future (Encore).

Thursday, September 29 2011 05:00 PM

A remarkable Kenyan woman and environmentalist speaks from experience about the links between ecology, human flourishing, war and peace, and democracy. And she shares her thoughts on where God resides.

Unedited Interview with Wangari Maathai

Thursday, September 29 2011 04:59 PM

A remarkable Kenyan woman and environmentalist speaks from experience about the links between ecology, human flourishing, war and peace, and democracy. And she shares her thoughts on where God resides.

Opening Up Windows (Encore).

Thursday, September 22 2011 05:00 PM

Rabbi David Hartman confronts God in the modern world, and the deepest meaning of the Jewish state, as a sacred obligation.

Rabbi David Hartman

Thursday, September 22 2011 04:59 PM

Rabbi David Hartman confronts God in the modern world, and the deepest meaning of the Jewish state, as a sacred obligation.

The Evolution of Change (Encore).

Thursday, September 15 2011 05:00 PM

We experience a vision of caution and hope planted in a long view of Arab and Palestinian history, culture, and time in Palestinian philosopher Sari Nusseibeh. His personal story is steeped in layers of identity and, as he says, living legend, which shape

Unedited Interview with Sari Nusseibeh

Thursday, September 15 2011 04:59 PM

We experience a vision of caution and hope planted in a long view of Arab and Palestinian history, culture, and time in Palestinian philosopher Sari Nusseibeh. His personal story is steeped in layers of identity and, as he says, living legend, which shape

Who Do We Want to Become? Remembering Forward a Decade after 9/11 (Encore).

Thursday, September 08 2011 05:00 PM

In the days and months after 9/11, St. Paul's Chapel became the hub where thousands of volunteers and rescue workers received round-the-clock care. It was a moving setting to explore how 9/11 changed us as a people — and to ponder the inward work of livin

Unedited Interview with Hendrik Hertzberg, Serene Jones, and Pankaj Mishra

Thursday, September 08 2011 04:59 PM

In the days and months after 9/11, St. Paul's Chapel became the hub where thousands of volunteers and rescue workers received round-the-clock care. It was a moving setting to explore how 9/11 changed us as a people — and to ponder the inward work of livin

Restoring Political Civility - An Evangelical View (Encore).

Thursday, August 18 2011 05:00 PM

Richard Mouw challenges his fellow conservative Christians to civility in public discourse. He offers historical as well as spiritual perspective on American Evangelicals' navigation of disagreement, fear, and truth.

Unedited Interview with Richard Mouw

Thursday, August 18 2011 04:59 PM

Richard Mouw challenges his fellow conservative Christians to civility in public discourse. He offers historical as well as spiritual perspective on American Evangelicals' navigation of disagreement, fear, and truth.

Listening Beyond Life and Choice (Encore).

Thursday, August 11 2011 05:00 PM

Frances Kissling is known for her longtime activism on the abortion issue but has devoted her energy more in recent years to real relationship and new conversations across that bitter divide. She's learned, she's written, about the courage to be vulnerabl

Unedited Interview with Frances Kissling

Thursday, August 11 2011 04:59 PM

Frances Kissling is known for her longtime activism on the abortion issue but has devoted her energy more in recent years to real relationship and new conversations across that bitter divide. She's learned, she's written, about the courage to be vulnerabl

Sidling Up to Difference (Encore).

Thursday, August 04 2011 05:00 PM

Our Civil Conversations Project continues with the Ghanaian-British-American philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah. His parents' marriage helped inspire the movie Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. He's studied ethics in a world of strangers and how unimaginable so

Unedited Interview with Kwame Anthony Appiah

Thursday, August 04 2011 04:59 PM

Our Civil Conversations Project continues with the Ghanaian-British-American philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah. His parents' marriage helped inspire the movie Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. He's studied ethics in a world of strangers and how unimaginable so

Autism and Humanity (Encore).

Thursday, July 14 2011 05:00 PM

One child in every 110 in the U.S. is now diagnosed to be somewhere on the spectrum of autism. We step back from public controversies over causes and cures and explore the mystery and meaning of autism in one family's life, and in history and society. Our

Unedited Interview with Paul Collins and Jennifer Elder

Thursday, July 14 2011 04:59 PM

One child in every 110 in the U.S. is now diagnosed to be somewhere on the spectrum of autism. We step back from public controversies over causes and cures and explore the mystery and meaning of autism in one family's life, and in history and society. Our

Pleasure More Than Hope (Encore).

Thursday, July 07 2011 05:00 PM

Did you know that the sacred city of Bethlehem lies within the West Bank? And, inside its borders, you'll find something unexpected — a close-knit neighborhood where generations of people have created a new life for themselves. Amahl Bishara and Nidal Al-

Unedited Interview with Amahl Bishara

Thursday, July 07 2011 04:59 PM

Did you know that the sacred city of Bethlehem lies within the West Bank? And, inside its borders, you'll find something unexpected — a close-knit neighborhood where generations of people have created a new life for themselves. Amahl Bishara and Nidal Al-

Unedited Interview with Nidal Al-Azraq

Thursday, July 07 2011 04:59 PM

Did you know that the sacred city of Bethlehem lies within the West Bank? And, inside its borders, you'll find something unexpected — a close-knit neighborhood where generations of people have created a new life for themselves. Amahl Bishara and Nidal Al-

Reviving Sister Aimee (Encore).

Thursday, June 09 2011 05:00 PM

A look back at the closest thing the early 20th century may have had to Oprah Winfrey. The flamboyant Pentecostal preacher Aimee Semple McPherson was a multimedia sensation and a powerful female religious leader long before most of Christianity considered

Unedited Interview with Anthea Butler

Thursday, June 09 2011 04:59 PM

A look back at the closest thing the early 20th century may have had to Oprah Winfrey. The flamboyant Pentecostal preacher Aimee Semple McPherson was a multimedia sensation and a powerful female religious leader long before most of Christianity considered

Unedited Interview with Arlene Sánchez-Walsh

Thursday, June 09 2011 04:59 PM

A look back at the closest thing the early 20th century may have had to Oprah Winfrey. The flamboyant Pentecostal preacher Aimee Semple McPherson was a multimedia sensation and a powerful female religious leader long before most of Christianity considered

Unedited Interview with Margaret Paloma

Thursday, June 09 2011 04:59 PM

A look back at the closest thing the early 20th century may have had to Oprah Winfrey. The flamboyant Pentecostal preacher Aimee Semple McPherson was a multimedia sensation and a powerful female religious leader long before most of Christianity considered

Cosmic Origami and What We Don't Know (Encore).

Thursday, June 02 2011 05:00 PM

Parallel realities and the deep structure of space-time sound like science fiction. But these are matters of real scientific inquiry. Lord Martin Rees is an astrophysicist and atheist who spends his life contemplating such things.

Unedited Interview with Lord Martin Rees

Thursday, June 02 2011 04:59 PM

Parallel realities and the deep structure of space-time sound like science fiction. But these are matters of real scientific inquiry. Lord Martin Rees is an astrophysicist and atheist who spends his life contemplating such things.

Thin Places, Thick Realities (Encore).

Thursday, May 12 2011 05:00 PM

A new show from Jerusalem with American-Israeli journalist Yossi Klein Halevi, who says Jerusalem is a place where the essential human story plays itself out with particular intensity.

Unedited Interview with Yossi Klein Halevi

Thursday, May 12 2011 04:59 PM

A new show from Jerusalem with American-Israeli journalist Yossi Klein Halevi, who says Jerusalem is a place where the essential human story plays itself out with particular intensity.

Children of Both Identities (Encore).

Thursday, April 28 2011 05:00 PM

Mohammad Darawshe is Arab with an Israeli passport — a Muslim Palestinian citizen of the Jewish state. Like 20 percent of Israel's population, he is, as he puts it, a child of both identities. He brings an unexpected way of seeing inside the Middle Easter

Unedited Interview with Mohammad Darawshe

Thursday, April 28 2011 04:59 PM

Mohammad Darawshe is Arab with an Israeli passport — a Muslim Palestinian citizen of the Jewish state. Like 20 percent of Israel's population, he is, as he puts it, a child of both identities. He brings an unexpected way of seeing inside the Middle Easter

Exodus, Cargo of Hidden Stories (Encore).

Thursday, April 14 2011 05:00 PM

The biblical Exodus story has inspired believers and non-believers, Jews and Christians — and more than a few Hollywood movies. But this is no simple story of heroes and villains; it is a complex picture of the possibilities and ironies of human passion a

Unedited Interview with Avivah Zornberg

Thursday, April 14 2011 04:59 PM

The biblical Exodus story has inspired believers and non-believers, Jews and Christians — and more than a few Hollywood movies. But this is no simple story of heroes and villains; it is a complex picture of the possibilities and ironies of human passion a

Asteroids, Stars, and the Love of God (Encore).

Thursday, March 10 2011 06:00 PM

Four Jesuits in history have had asteroids named after them. Our guests are the two living astronomers with that distinction. Brother Guy Consolmagno and Father George Coyne study the composition of meteorites and the life and death of stars. They share t

Unedited Interview with Consolmagno & Coyne

Thursday, March 10 2011 05:59 PM

Four Jesuits in history have had asteroids named after them. Our guests are the two living astronomers with that distinction. Brother Guy Consolmagno and Father George Coyne study the composition of meteorites and the life and death of stars. They share t

Yoga. Meditation in Action (Encore).

Thursday, March 03 2011 06:00 PM

Yoga has infiltrated law schools and strip malls, churches and hospitals. This 5,000-year-old spiritual technology is converging with 21st-century medical science and with many religious and philosophical perspectives. Seane Corn is a renowned yoga teache

Unedited Interview with Seane Corn

Thursday, March 03 2011 05:59 PM

Yoga has infiltrated law schools and strip malls, churches and hospitals. This 5,000-year-old spiritual technology is converging with 21st-century medical science and with many religious and philosophical perspectives. Seane Corn is a renowned yoga teache

Demonstrations, Hopes, and Dreams (Encore).

Thursday, February 10 2011 06:00 PM

We make deeper sense of the human dynamics unfolding in the Middle East and North Africa. Anthropologist Scott Atran offers bracing context on the promise of this moment and the response it asks from the watching world.

Unedited Interview with Scott Atran

Thursday, February 10 2011 05:59 PM

We make deeper sense of the human dynamics unfolding in the Middle East and North Africa. Anthropologist Scott Atran offers bracing context on the promise of this moment and the response it asks from the watching world.

Quarks and Creation (Encore).

Thursday, January 13 2011 06:00 PM

Science and religion are often pitted against one another; but how do they complement, rather than contradict, one another? We learn how one man applies the deepest insights of modern physics to think about how the world fundamentally works, and how the u

Unedited Interview with John Polkinghorne

Thursday, January 13 2011 05:59 PM

Science and religion are often pitted against one another; but how do they complement, rather than contradict, one another? We learn how one man applies the deepest insights of modern physics to think about how the world fundamentally works, and how the u

Evolving "Faith" (Encore).

Thursday, December 30 2010 06:00 PM

At the turn of the year, we look at how American culture's encounter with religious ideas and people has evolved in the past decade — and this radio project with it.

Joe Carter and the Legacy of the African-American Spiritual (Encore).

Thursday, December 23 2010 06:00 PM

Born in slavery, the Negro spiritual conveys a generous understanding of the nature of God and of human life. A celebration in word and song — through its hidden meanings, as well as its beauty, lament, and hope.

Unedited Interview with Joe Carter

Thursday, December 23 2010 05:59 PM

Born in slavery, the Negro spiritual conveys a generous understanding of the nature of God and of human life. A celebration in word and song — through its hidden meanings, as well as its beauty, lament, and hope.

The Long Shadow of Torture (Encore).

Thursday, November 04 2010 05:00 PM

One of the world's leading experts on torture, Iranian-American political scientist Darius Rejali discusses, in particular, how democracies change torture and are changed by it. In the wake of Wikileaks revelations about torture in U.S.-occupied Iraq, we

Interview with Darius Rejali

Thursday, November 04 2010 04:59 PM

One of the world's leading experts on torture, Iranian-American political scientist Darius Rejali discusses, in particular, how democracies change torture and are changed by it. In the wake of Wikileaks revelations about torture in U.S.-occupied Iraq, we

Learning, Doing, Being: A New Science of Education (Encore).

Thursday, October 21 2010 05:00 PM

What Adele Diamond is learning about the brain challenges basic assumptions in modern education. Her work is scientifically illustrating the educational power of things like play, sports, music, memorization and reflection. What nourishes the human spi

Unedited Interview with Adele Diamond

Thursday, October 21 2010 04:59 PM

What Adele Diamond is learning about the brain challenges basic assumptions in modern education. Her work is scientifically illustrating the educational power of things like play, sports, music, memorization and reflection. What nourishes the human spi

Stem Cells, Untold Stories (Encore).

Thursday, September 30 2010 05:00 PM

Using stem cells, Doris Taylor brought the heart of a dead animal back to life and might one day revolutionize human organ transplantation. She takes us beyond lightning rod issues and into an unfolding frontier where science is learning how stem cells wo

Unedited Interview with Doris Taylor

Thursday, September 30 2010 04:59 PM

Using stem cells, Doris Taylor brought the heart of a dead animal back to life and might one day revolutionize human organ transplantation. She takes us beyond lightning rod issues and into an unfolding frontier where science is learning how stem cells wo

Days of Awe with Sharon Brous (Encore).

Thursday, September 02 2010 05:00 PM

We delve into the world and meaning of the Jewish High Holy Days — ten days that span the new year of Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur's rituals of atonement. A young rabbi in L.A. is one voice in a Jewish spiritual renaissance that is taking many form

Unedited Interview with Sharon Brous

Thursday, September 02 2010 04:59 PM

We delve into the world and meaning of the Jewish High Holy Days — ten days that span the new year of Rosh Hashanah through Yom Kippur's rituals of atonement. A young rabbi in L.A. is one voice in a Jewish spiritual renaissance that is taking many form

A Different Kind of Capitalism (Encore).

Thursday, August 19 2010 05:00 PM

The devastation of the Haiti earthquakes and the lack of infrastructure for responding to the disaster have deepened an ongoing debate over foreign aid, international development, and helping the poorest of the world's poor. Jacqueline Novogratz, whose

Unedited Interview with Jacqueline Novogratz

Thursday, August 19 2010 04:59 PM

The devastation of the Haiti earthquakes and the lack of infrastructure for responding to the disaster have deepened an ongoing debate over foreign aid, international development, and helping the poorest of the world's poor. Jacqueline Novogratz, whose

Revealing Ramadan (Encore).

Thursday, August 12 2010 05:00 PM

14 Muslims, in their own words, speak about the delights and gravity of Islam's holiest month. Through vivid memories and light-hearted musings, they reveal the richness of Ramadan — as a period of intimacy, and of parties; of getting up when the world is

The Moral Math of Climate Change (Encore).

Thursday, August 05 2010 05:00 PM

A conversation about climate change and moral imagination with a leading environmentalist and writer who has been ahead of the curve on this issue since he wrote The End of Nature in 1989. We explore his evolving perspective on human responsib

Unedited Interview with Bill McKibben

Thursday, August 05 2010 04:59 PM

A conversation about climate change and moral imagination with a leading environmentalist and writer who has been ahead of the curve on this issue since he wrote The End of Nature in 1989. We explore his evolving perspective on human responsib

Listening Generously (Encore).

Thursday, July 29 2010 05:00 PM

Rachel Naomi Remen's lifelong struggle with chronic illness has shaped her philosophy and practice of medicine. She speaks about the art of listening to patients and other physicians, the difference between curing and healing, and how our losses help us t

Unedited Interview with Rachel Naomi Remen

Thursday, July 29 2010 04:59 PM

Rachel Naomi Remen's lifelong struggle with chronic illness has shaped her philosophy and practice of medicine. She speaks about the art of listening to patients and other physicians, the difference between curing and healing, and how our losses help us t

The Ethics of Eating (Encore).

Thursday, July 15 2010 05:00 PM

Kingsolver describes an adventure her family undertook to spend one year eating primarily what they could grow or raise themselves. As a citizen and mother more than an expert, she turned her life towards questions many of us are asking. Food, she says

Unedited Interview with Barbara Kingslover

Thursday, July 15 2010 04:59 PM

Kingsolver describes an adventure her family undertook to spend one year eating primarily what they could grow or raise themselves. As a citizen and mother more than an expert, she turned her life towards questions many of us are asking. Food, she says

A Monastic Revolution (Encore).

Thursday, July 01 2010 05:00 PM

Shane Claiborne is a leading spirit in a gathering movement of young people known as the New Monastics. Emerging from the edges of Evangelical Christianity, they are patterning their lives in response to the needs of the poor -- and the detachment they

Unedited Interview with Shane Claiborne

Thursday, July 01 2010 04:59 PM

Shane Claiborne is a leading spirit in a gathering movement of young people known as the New Monastics. Emerging from the edges of Evangelical Christianity, they are patterning their lives in response to the needs of the poor -- and the detachment they

The Spirituality of Parenting (Encore).

Thursday, June 17 2010 05:00 PM

More and more people in our time are disconnected from religious institutions, at least for part of their lives. Others are religious and find themselves creating a family with a spouse from another tradition or no tradition at all. And the experience of

Interview with Sandy Eisenberg Sasso

Thursday, June 17 2010 04:59 PM

More and more people in our time are disconnected from religious institutions, at least for part of their lives. Others are religious and find themselves creating a family with a spouse from another tradition or no tradition at all. And the experience of

An Architecture of Decency (Encore).

Thursday, June 03 2010 05:00 PM

Auburn's Rural Studio in western Alabama draws architectural students into the design and construction of homes and public spaces in some of the poorest counties. They're creating beautiful and economical structures that are not only unique but nurture

Unedited Interview with Andrew Freear

Thursday, June 03 2010 04:59 PM

Auburn's Rural Studio in western Alabama draws architectural students into the design and construction of homes and public spaces in some of the poorest counties. They're creating beautiful and economical structures that are not only unique but nurture

Preserving Words and Worlds (Encore).

Thursday, May 06 2010 05:00 PM

Saint John's University and Abbey in rural Minnesota houses a monastic library that rescues writings from across the centuries and across the world. There are worlds in this place on palm leaf and papyrus, in microfilm and pixels. And the relevance of the

Unedited Interview with Columba Stewart

Thursday, May 06 2010 04:59 PM

Saint John's University and Abbey in rural Minnesota houses a monastic library that rescues writings from across the centuries and across the world. There are worlds in this place on palm leaf and papyrus, in microfilm and pixels. And the relevance of the

Uneidted Interview with Getatchew Haile

Thursday, May 06 2010 04:59 PM

Saint John's University and Abbey in rural Minnesota houses a monastic library that rescues writings from across the centuries and across the world. There are worlds in this place on palm leaf and papyrus, in microfilm and pixels. And the relevance of the

Alzheimer's, Memory, and Being with Alan Dienstag (Encore).

Thursday, April 22 2010 05:00 PM

Alzheimer's disease has been described as "the great unlearning," a "disease of memory," a "demise of consciousness." But what does it reveal about the nature of human identity? What remains when memory unravels? And how might such insights help Alzheimer

Unedited Interview with Alan Dienstag

Thursday, April 22 2010 04:59 PM

Alzheimer's disease has been described as "the great unlearning," a "disease of memory," a "demise of consciousness." But what does it reveal about the nature of human identity? What remains when memory unravels? And how might such insights help Alzheimer

Unedited Interview with David Shenk

Thursday, April 22 2010 04:59 PM

Alzheimer's disease has been described as "the great unlearning," a "disease of memory," a "demise of consciousness." But what does it reveal about the nature of human identity? What remains when memory unravels? And how might such insights help Alzheimer

Interview with Gisela Webb

Thursday, April 22 2010 04:59 PM

Alzheimer's disease has been described as "the great unlearning," a "disease of memory," a "demise of consciousness." But what does it reveal about the nature of human identity? What remains when memory unravels? And how might such insights help Alzheimer

Laying the Dead to Rest (Encore).

Thursday, April 15 2010 05:00 PM

With an Argentinean scientist, we explore the human landscape of forensic sciences and its emergence as a tool for human rights. Doretti has unearthed bones and stories of the dead and "the disappeared" in more than 30 countries, including victims of Arge

Unedited Interview with Mercedes Doretti

Thursday, April 15 2010 04:59 PM

With an Argentinean scientist, we explore the human landscape of forensic sciences and its emergence as a tool for human rights. Doretti has unearthed bones and stories of the dead and "the disappeared" in more than 30 countries, including victims of Arge

China's Hidden Spiritual Landscape (Encore).

Thursday, April 08 2010 05:00 PM

A filmmaker and scholar gives us a parallel story to the ubiquitous news of China's economy and politics. Mayfair Yang discusses the ancient and reemerging traditions of reverence and ritual — revealing background to its approach to Tibet. And, she tel

Unedited Interview with Mayfair Yang

Thursday, April 08 2010 04:59 PM

A filmmaker and scholar gives us a parallel story to the ubiquitous news of China's economy and politics. Mayfair Yang discusses the ancient and reemerging traditions of reverence and ritual — revealing background to its approach to Tibet. And, she tel

Heart and Soul with Mehmet Oz (Encore).

Thursday, March 18 2010 05:00 PM

The word "healing" means "to make whole." But historically, Western medicine has taken a divided view of human health. It has stressed medical treatments of biological ailments. That may be changing. Mehmet Oz, a cardiovascular surgeon, is part of a ne

Unedited Interview with Dr. Mehmet Oz

Thursday, March 18 2010 04:59 PM

The word "healing" means "to make whole." But historically, Western medicine has taken a divided view of human health. It has stressed medical treatments of biological ailments. That may be changing. Mehmet Oz, a cardiovascular surgeon, is part of a ne

The Evolution of God (Encore).

Thursday, March 04 2010 06:00 PM

Robert Wright charts an intellectual path beyond the faith versus reason debate. He takes a relentlessly logical look at the history of religion, exposing its contradictions. Yet Wright also traces something "revelatory" moving through human history. I

Unedited Interview with Robert Wright

Thursday, March 04 2010 05:59 PM

Robert Wright charts an intellectual path beyond the faith versus reason debate. He takes a relentlessly logical look at the history of religion, exposing its contradictions. Yet Wright also traces something "revelatory" moving through human history. I

Einstein's God (Encore).

Thursday, February 25 2010 06:00 PM

Part two of this series delves into Einstein's Jewish identity, his passionate engagement around issues of war and race, and modern extensions of his ethical and scientific perspectives.

Interview with Paul Davies

Thursday, February 25 2010 05:59 PM

Part two of this series delves into Einstein's Jewish identity, his passionate engagement around issues of war and race, and modern extensions of his ethical and scientific perspectives.

Unedited Interview with Freeman Dyson

Thursday, February 25 2010 05:59 PM

Part two of this series delves into Einstein's Jewish identity, his passionate engagement around issues of war and race, and modern extensions of his ethical and scientific perspectives.

Unedited Interview with Priyamvada Natarajan

Thursday, February 25 2010 05:59 PM

Part two of this series delves into Einstein's Jewish identity, his passionate engagement around issues of war and race, and modern extensions of his ethical and scientific perspectives.

Black & Universal (Encore).

Thursday, February 11 2010 06:00 PM

A poet and self-described literary activist, E. Ethelbert Miller attended Howard University in 1968 — the age in which Black Power was finding its voice. He has remained there ever since, observing and making sense of the trajectory of black history an

Unedited Interview with E. Ethelbert Miller

Thursday, February 11 2010 05:59 PM

A poet and self-described literary activist, E. Ethelbert Miller attended Howard University in 1968 — the age in which Black Power was finding its voice. He has remained there ever since, observing and making sense of the trajectory of black history an

Living Vodou (Encore).

Thursday, February 04 2010 06:00 PM

The word "Vodou" evokes images of sorcery and sticking pins into dolls. In fact, it's a living tradition wherever Haitians are found based on ancestral religions in Africa. We walk through this mysterious tradition — one with dramatic rituals of trances a

Unedited Interview with Patrick Bellegarde-Smith

Thursday, February 04 2010 05:59 PM

The word "Vodou" evokes images of sorcery and sticking pins into dolls. In fact, it's a living tradition wherever Haitians are found based on ancestral religions in Africa. We walk through this mysterious tradition — one with dramatic rituals of trances a

Unedited Interview with Claudine Michel

Thursday, February 04 2010 05:59 PM

The word "Vodou" evokes images of sorcery and sticking pins into dolls. In fact, it's a living tradition wherever Haitians are found based on ancestral religions in Africa. We walk through this mysterious tradition — one with dramatic rituals of trances a

Reflections of a Former Islamist Extremist (Encore).

Thursday, January 14 2010 06:00 PM

British activist Ed Husain was seduced, at the age of 16, by revolutionary Islamist ideals that flourished at the heart of educated British culture. Yet he later shrank back from radicalism after coming close to a murder and watching people he loved becom

Unedited Interview with Ed Husain

Thursday, January 14 2010 05:59 PM

British activist Ed Husain was seduced, at the age of 16, by revolutionary Islamist ideals that flourished at the heart of educated British culture. Yet he later shrank back from radicalism after coming close to a murder and watching people he loved becom

Approaching Prayer (Encore).

Thursday, December 31 2009 06:00 PM

Americans are religious and non-religious, devout and irreverent. But in astonishing numbers, across that spectrum, most of us say that we pray. We explore the subject of prayer, how it sounds, and what it means in three different traditions and lives.

Unedited Interview with Anoushka Shankar

Thursday, December 31 2009 05:59 PM

Americans are religious and non-religious, devout and irreverent. But in astonishing numbers, across that spectrum, most of us say that we pray. We explore the subject of prayer, how it sounds, and what it means in three different traditions and lives.

Unedited Interview with Roberta Bondi

Thursday, December 31 2009 05:59 PM

Americans are religious and non-religious, devout and irreverent. But in astonishing numbers, across that spectrum, most of us say that we pray. We explore the subject of prayer, how it sounds, and what it means in three different traditions and lives.

Interview with Stephen Mitchell

Thursday, December 31 2009 05:59 PM

Americans are religious and non-religious, devout and irreverent. But in astonishing numbers, across that spectrum, most of us say that we pray. We explore the subject of prayer, how it sounds, and what it means in three different traditions and lives.

The Wisdom of Tenderness (Encore).

Thursday, December 24 2009 06:00 PM

This Canadian philosopher and Catholic social innovator founded L'Arche, a community centered around people with mental disabilities that has now become a global movement. To many, he is simply one of the wise men in our world today -- an icon of lived co

Unedited Interview with Jean Vanier

Thursday, December 24 2009 05:59 PM

This Canadian philosopher and Catholic social innovator founded L'Arche, a community centered around people with mental disabilities that has now become a global movement. To many, he is simply one of the wise men in our world today -- an icon of lived co

The Freelance Monotheism of Karen Armstrong (Encore).

Thursday, November 05 2009 06:00 PM

Karen Armstrong speaks about her progression from a disillusioned and damaged young nun into, in her words, a "freelance monotheist." She's a formidable thinker and scholar, but as a theologian she calls herself an amateur — noting that the Latin root of

Unedited Interview with Karen Armstrong

Thursday, November 05 2009 05:59 PM

Karen Armstrong speaks about her progression from a disillusioned and damaged young nun into, in her words, a "freelance monotheist." She's a formidable thinker and scholar, but as a theologian she calls herself an amateur — noting that the Latin root of

The Need for Creeds (Encore).

Thursday, October 22 2009 05:00 PM

For many modern Americans, the very idea of reciting an unchanging creed, composed centuries ago, is troublesome. But, Jaroslav Pelikan, who died on May 13, 2006, was a scholar who devoted his life to exploring the vitality of ancient theology and creeds.

Unedited Interview with Jaroslav Pelikan

Thursday, October 22 2009 04:59 PM

For many modern Americans, the very idea of reciting an unchanging creed, composed centuries ago, is troublesome. But, Jaroslav Pelikan, who died on May 13, 2006, was a scholar who devoted his life to exploring the vitality of ancient theology and creeds.

Curiosity Over Assumptions - Interreligiosity Meets a New Generation (Encore).

Thursday, October 15 2009 05:00 PM

We shine a light on two young leaders of a new generation of grassroots Muslim-Jewish encounter in Los Angeles. They're innovating templates of practical relationship that work with reality, acknowledge questions and conflict, yet resolve not to be enemie

Unedited Interview with Malka Haya Fenyvesi and Aziza Hasan

Thursday, October 15 2009 04:59 PM

We shine a light on two young leaders of a new generation of grassroots Muslim-Jewish encounter in Los Angeles. They're innovating templates of practical relationship that work with reality, acknowledge questions and conflict, yet resolve not to be enemie

The Power of Eckhart Tolle's Now (Encore).

Thursday, October 08 2009 05:00 PM

One of today's most influential spiritual teachers shares his youthful experience of depression and despair — suffering that led him to his own spiritual breakthrough, and ultimately, freedom and peace of mind. He also explicates his view of what he calls

Unedited Interview Eckhart Tolle

Thursday, October 08 2009 04:59 PM

One of today's most influential spiritual teachers shares his youthful experience of depression and despair — suffering that led him to his own spiritual breakthrough, and ultimately, freedom and peace of mind. He also explicates his view of what he calls

Language and Meaning - an Ojibwe Story (Encore).

Thursday, October 01 2009 05:00 PM

Language is a carrier of human identity. It is a vehicle by which we understand and express our very sense of self. Novelist and translator David Treuer is helping to compile the first practical grammar of the Ojibwe language. He describes an unfolding ex

Unedited Interview with David Treuer

Thursday, October 01 2009 04:59 PM

Language is a carrier of human identity. It is a vehicle by which we understand and express our very sense of self. Novelist and translator David Treuer is helping to compile the first practical grammar of the Ojibwe language. He describes an unfolding ex

Living Islam (Encore).

Thursday, September 24 2009 05:00 PM

Nine Muslims, in their own words, reveal a creative convergence of Islamic spirituality and American identity that is unfolding, largely unnoticed, in the United States. A lawyer turned playwright, a teacher who's a lesbian, a retired federal prosecutor —

The Ethics of Aid: One Kenyan's Perspective (Encore).

Thursday, August 27 2009 05:00 PM

We explore the complex ethics of global aid with a young writer from Kenya, Binyavanga Wainaina. He is among a rising generation of African voices who bring a cautionary perspective to the morality and efficacy behind many Western initiatives to abolish p

Unedited Interview with Binyavanga Wainaina

Thursday, August 27 2009 04:59 PM

We explore the complex ethics of global aid with a young writer from Kenya, Binyavanga Wainaina. He is among a rising generation of African voices who bring a cautionary perspective to the morality and efficacy behind many Western initiatives to abolish p

The Novelist as God (Encore).

Thursday, August 20 2009 05:00 PM

Our guest has grappled with large moral and religious questions on and off the page. We discover what she discerned -- in the act of creating a new universe -- about God and about dilemmas of evil, doubt, and free will. The ultimate moral of any life and

Unedited Interview with Mary Doria Russell

Thursday, August 20 2009 04:59 PM

Our guest has grappled with large moral and religious questions on and off the page. We discover what she discerned -- in the act of creating a new universe -- about God and about dilemmas of evil, doubt, and free will. The ultimate moral of any life and

Obama's Theologian: David Brooks and E.J. Dionne on Reinhold Niebuhr and the American Present (Encore).

Thursday, August 13 2009 05:00 PM

President Obama has cited Reinhold Niebuhr's teachings as significant in shaping his ideas about politics and governance. In a public conversation, we discuss the great public theologian's legacy and ideas — and what influence they may play in the future

Unedited Interview with David Brooks & E.J. Dionne

Thursday, August 13 2009 04:59 PM

President Obama has cited Reinhold Niebuhr's teachings as significant in shaping his ideas about politics and governance. In a public conversation, we discuss the great public theologian's legacy and ideas — and what influence they may play in the future

Fishing with Mystery (Encore).

Thursday, August 06 2009 05:00 PM

James Prosek is an artist, fly-fisher, author, and environmental activist who has always, as he puts it, found God "through the theater of nature." From a young age he has been fascinated by trout and now eel - which he sees as "mystical creatures" - and

Unedited Interview with James Prosek

Thursday, August 06 2009 04:59 PM

James Prosek is an artist, fly-fisher, author, and environmental activist who has always, as he puts it, found God "through the theater of nature." From a young age he has been fascinated by trout and now eel - which he sees as "mystical creatures" - and

Repossessing Virtue: Wise Voices from Religion, Science, Industry, and the Arts (Encore).

Thursday, July 30 2009 05:00 PM

As the global economic crisis began to unfold this past fall, we wanted to respond immediately, in our way. We began to conduct an online conversation parallel to but distinct from our culture's more sustained focus on economic scenarios. For in each of o

Unedited Interview with Rachel Naomi Remen

Thursday, July 30 2009 04:59 PM

As the global economic crisis began to unfold this past fall, we wanted to respond immediately, in our way. We began to conduct an online conversation parallel to but distinct from our culture's more sustained focus on economic scenarios. For in each of o

Unedited Interview with Prabhu Guptara

Thursday, July 30 2009 04:59 PM

As the global economic crisis began to unfold this past fall, we wanted to respond immediately, in our way. We began to conduct an online conversation parallel to but distinct from our culture's more sustained focus on economic scenarios. For in each of o

Unedited Interview with Sharon Salzberg

Thursday, July 30 2009 04:59 PM

As the global economic crisis began to unfold this past fall, we wanted to respond immediately, in our way. We began to conduct an online conversation parallel to but distinct from our culture's more sustained focus on economic scenarios. For in each of o

Unedited Interview with Martin Marty

Thursday, July 30 2009 04:59 PM

As the global economic crisis began to unfold this past fall, we wanted to respond immediately, in our way. We began to conduct an online conversation parallel to but distinct from our culture's more sustained focus on economic scenarios. For in each of o

Unedited Interview with Esther Sternberg

Thursday, July 30 2009 04:59 PM

As the global economic crisis began to unfold this past fall, we wanted to respond immediately, in our way. We began to conduct an online conversation parallel to but distinct from our culture's more sustained focus on economic scenarios. For in each of o

Unedited Interview with Anchee Min

Thursday, July 30 2009 04:59 PM

As the global economic crisis began to unfold this past fall, we wanted to respond immediately, in our way. We began to conduct an online conversation parallel to but distinct from our culture's more sustained focus on economic scenarios. For in each of o

Unedited Interview with Vigen Guroian

Thursday, July 30 2009 04:59 PM

As the global economic crisis began to unfold this past fall, we wanted to respond immediately, in our way. We began to conduct an online conversation parallel to but distinct from our culture's more sustained focus on economic scenarios. For in each of o

Repossessing Virtue: Parker Palmer on Economic Crisis, Morality, and Meaning (Encore).

Thursday, July 23 2009 05:00 PM

We explore human and spiritual aspects of economic downturn with a wise public intellectual of our time, the Quaker author and educator Parker Palmer. He works with people from all walks of life at the intersection of spiritual, professional, and social c

Unedited Interview with Parker Palmer

Thursday, July 23 2009 04:59 PM

We explore human and spiritual aspects of economic downturn with a wise public intellectual of our time, the Quaker author and educator Parker Palmer. He works with people from all walks of life at the intersection of spiritual, professional, and social c

TV and Parables of Our Time (Encore).

Thursday, July 16 2009 05:00 PM

Diane Winston appreciates good television, studies it, and brings many of its creators into her religion and media classes at the University of Southern California. In what some have called a renaissance in television drama, we examine how TV is helping u

Unedited Interview with Diane Winston

Thursday, July 16 2009 04:59 PM

Diane Winston appreciates good television, studies it, and brings many of its creators into her religion and media classes at the University of Southern California. In what some have called a renaissance in television drama, we examine how TV is helping u

The Science of Trust: Economics and Virtue (Encore).

Thursday, July 09 2009 05:00 PM

In a few breathtaking months, we've culturally moved from seeing Wall Street as an icon of thriving civil society to discussing its workings with book titles like House of Cards and Animal Spirits. As part of our ongoing Repossessing Virtue series, we loo

Unedited Interview with Paul Zak

Thursday, July 09 2009 04:59 PM

In a few breathtaking months, we've culturally moved from seeing Wall Street as an icon of thriving civil society to discussing its workings with book titles like House of Cards and Animal Spirits. As part of our ongoing Repossessing Virtue series, we loo

Play, Spirit, and Character (Encore).

Thursday, July 02 2009 05:00 PM

Stuart Brown, a physician and director of the National Institute for Play, says that pleasurable, purposeless activity prevents violence and promotes trust, empathy, and adaptability to life's complication. He promotes cutting-edge science on human play,

Unedited Interview with Stuart Brown

Thursday, July 02 2009 04:59 PM

Stuart Brown, a physician and director of the National Institute for Play, says that pleasurable, purposeless activity prevents violence and promotes trust, empathy, and adaptability to life's complication. He promotes cutting-edge science on human play,

Brother Thay: A Radio Pilgrimage with Thich Nhat Hanh (Encore).

Thursday, June 04 2009 05:00 PM

Zen master and poet Thich Nhat Hanh was forcibly exiled from his native country of Vietnam more than 40 years ago. We visited the Buddhist monk at a Christian conference center in a lakeside setting of rural Wisconsin. Here, Thich Nhat Hanh offers stark,

Unedited Interview with Thich Nhat Hanh

Thursday, June 04 2009 04:59 PM

Zen master and poet Thich Nhat Hanh was forcibly exiled from his native country of Vietnam more than 40 years ago. We visited the Buddhist monk at a Christian conference center in a lakeside setting of rural Wisconsin. Here, Thich Nhat Hanh offers stark,

Unedited Interview with Cheri Maples

Thursday, June 04 2009 04:59 PM

Zen master and poet Thich Nhat Hanh was forcibly exiled from his native country of Vietnam more than 40 years ago. We visited the Buddhist monk at a Christian conference center in a lakeside setting of rural Wisconsin. Here, Thich Nhat Hanh offers stark,

Unedited Interview with Larry Ward

Thursday, June 04 2009 04:59 PM

Zen master and poet Thich Nhat Hanh was forcibly exiled from his native country of Vietnam more than 40 years ago. We visited the Buddhist monk at a Christian conference center in a lakeside setting of rural Wisconsin. Here, Thich Nhat Hanh offers stark,

Obama's Faith-Based Office - Meeting Joshua DuBois (Encore).

Thursday, May 28 2009 05:00 PM

The very words "faith-based" became controversial during the Bush administration, yet Barack Obama has retained the faith-based centers in 11 federal agencies that his predecessor created. And within weeks of assuming the presidency, he announced priority

Unedited Interview with Joshua DuBois

Thursday, May 28 2009 04:59 PM

The very words "faith-based" became controversial during the Bush administration, yet Barack Obama has retained the faith-based centers in 11 federal agencies that his predecessor created. And within weeks of assuming the presidency, he announced priority

The Sunni-Shia Divide and the Future of Islam (Encore).

Thursday, May 21 2009 05:00 PM

We seek fresh insight into the history and the human and religious dynamics of Islam's Sunni-Shia divide. Our guest says that it is not so different from dynamics in periods of Western Christian history. But he says that by bringing the majority Shia to p

Unedited Interview with Vali Nasr

Thursday, May 21 2009 04:59 PM

We seek fresh insight into the history and the human and religious dynamics of Islam's Sunni-Shia divide. Our guest says that it is not so different from dynamics in periods of Western Christian history. But he says that by bringing the majority Shia to p

Repossessing Virtue: Living Differently, Beyond Economic Crisis (Encore).

Thursday, May 14 2009 05:00 PM

We're bringing the voices of our listeners into the conversation we've been building online and on-air since the economic downturn began last year. Many are grappling with the shame that comes in American culture with the loss of a job, and many are seeki

The Biology of the Spirit (Encore).

Thursday, March 12 2009 05:00 PM

Former surgeon Sherwin Nuland speaks about his sense of wonder at the body's capacity to sustain life and support our pursuits of order and meaning, and why he believes the human spirit is an evolutionary accomplishment of the brain. The three-pound human

Unedited Interview wiht Sherwin Nuland

Thursday, March 12 2009 04:59 PM

Former surgeon Sherwin Nuland speaks about his sense of wonder at the body's capacity to sustain life and support our pursuits of order and meaning, and why he believes the human spirit is an evolutionary accomplishment of the brain. The three-pound human

The Soul in Depression (Encore).

Thursday, February 26 2009 06:00 PM

One in ten Americans, and even more dramatically, about one in four women, will experience clinical depression at some point in their lives. We take an intimate look at the spiritual dimensions of this illness and its aftermath.

Unedited interview with Parker Palmer

Thursday, February 26 2009 05:59 PM

One in ten Americans, and even more dramatically, about one in four women, will experience clinical depression at some point in their lives. We take an intimate look at the spiritual dimensions of this illness and its aftermath.

Unedited Interview with Andrew Solomon

Thursday, February 26 2009 05:59 PM

One in ten Americans, and even more dramatically, about one in four women, will experience clinical depression at some point in their lives. We take an intimate look at the spiritual dimensions of this illness and its aftermath.

Unedited Interview with Anita Barrows

Thursday, February 26 2009 05:59 PM

One in ten Americans, and even more dramatically, about one in four women, will experience clinical depression at some point in their lives. We take an intimate look at the spiritual dimensions of this illness and its aftermath.

Evolution and Wonder: Understanding Charles Darwin (Encore).

Thursday, February 05 2009 06:00 PM

We'll take a fresh and thought-provoking look at Darwin's life and ideas. He did not argue against God but against a simple understanding of the world — its beauty, its brutality, and its unfolding creation.

Unedited Interview with James Moore

Thursday, February 05 2009 05:59 PM

We'll take a fresh and thought-provoking look at Darwin's life and ideas. He did not argue against God but against a simple understanding of the world — its beauty, its brutality, and its unfolding creation.

The Buddha in the World (Encore).

Thursday, January 22 2009 06:00 PM

A few years ago, journalist Pankaj Mishra pursued the social relevance of the Buddha's thought across India and Europe, Afghanistan and America. He emerged with a startling critique of Western political economy that is even more resonant today as he pursu

Unedited Interview with Pankaj Mishra

Thursday, January 22 2009 05:59 PM

A few years ago, journalist Pankaj Mishra pursued the social relevance of the Buddha's thought across India and Europe, Afghanistan and America. He emerged with a startling critique of Western political economy that is even more resonant today as he pursu

Backdrop of the Buddha

Thursday, January 22 2009 05:59 PM

A few years ago, journalist Pankaj Mishra pursued the social relevance of the Buddha's thought across India and Europe, Afghanistan and America. He emerged with a startling critique of Western political economy that is even more resonant today as he pursu

A History of Doubt (Encore).

Thursday, January 08 2009 06:00 PM

Poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht says that as a scholar she always noticed the "shadow history" of doubt out of the corner of her eye. She shows how non-belief, skepticism, and doubt have paralleled and at times shaped the world's great religious

Unedited Interview with Jennifer Michael Hecht

Thursday, January 08 2009 05:59 PM

Poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht says that as a scholar she always noticed the "shadow history" of doubt out of the corner of her eye. She shows how non-belief, skepticism, and doubt have paralleled and at times shaped the world's great religious

The Inner Lives of Children (Encore).

Thursday, January 01 2009 06:00 PM

Psychiatrist Robert Coles has spent his career exploring the inner lives of children. He says children are witnesses to the fullness of our humanity; they are keenly attuned to the darkness as well as the light of life; and they can teach us about living

Unedited Interview with Robert Coles

Thursday, January 01 2009 05:59 PM

Psychiatrist Robert Coles has spent his career exploring the inner lives of children. He says children are witnesses to the fullness of our humanity; they are keenly attuned to the darkness as well as the light of life; and they can teach us about living

Studs Terkel on Life, Faith, and Death (Encore).

Thursday, November 13 2008 06:00 PM

We remember Studs Terkel, who recently died at the age of 96. The legendary interviewer chronicled decades of ordinary life and tumultuous change in U.S. culture. We visited him in his Chicago home in 2004 and drew out his wisdom and warmth on large exist

Unedited Interview with Studs Terkel

Thursday, November 13 2008 05:59 PM

We remember Studs Terkel, who recently died at the age of 96. The legendary interviewer chronicled decades of ordinary life and tumultuous change in U.S. culture. We visited him in his Chicago home in 2004 and drew out his wisdom and warmth on large exist

Liberating the Founders (Encore).

Thursday, October 30 2008 05:00 PM

Americans remain divided about how much religion they want in their political life. As we elect a new president, we return to an evocative, relevant conversation from earlier this year with journalist Steven Waldman. From his unusual study of the American

Unedited Interview with Steven Waldman

Thursday, October 30 2008 04:59 PM

Americans remain divided about how much religion they want in their political life. As we elect a new president, we return to an evocative, relevant conversation from earlier this year with journalist Steven Waldman. From his unusual study of the American

African American, Woman, Leader (Encore).

Thursday, October 23 2008 05:00 PM

The current U.S. presidential election has illustrated how gender, race, and religion can become lightning rods, and may be seen as potential stumbling blocks to leadership. Vashti McKenzie is a pioneering figure on all these fronts. When she became the f

Unedited Interview with Vashti McKenzie

Thursday, October 23 2008 04:59 PM

The current U.S. presidential election has illustrated how gender, race, and religion can become lightning rods, and may be seen as potential stumbling blocks to leadership. Vashti McKenzie is a pioneering figure on all these fronts. When she became the f

The Faith Life of the Party - Part II, The Right (Encore).

Thursday, October 09 2008 05:00 PM

The second part of our examination of religious energies below the surface of the 2008 presidential campaign. Conservative columnist Rod Dreher is an outspoken critic of mainstream Republican economic and environmental ideas and the conduct of the Iraq wa

Unedited Interview with Rod Dreher

Thursday, October 09 2008 04:59 PM

The second part of our examination of religious energies below the surface of the 2008 presidential campaign. Conservative columnist Rod Dreher is an outspoken critic of mainstream Republican economic and environmental ideas and the conduct of the Iraq wa

The Faith Life of the Party - Part I, The Left (Encore).

Thursday, October 02 2008 05:00 PM

The Religious Right has gotten a fair amount of coverage in recent years, while the political Left has rarely been represented with a religious sensibility. Our guest, a national correspondent for Time magazine is a political liberal and an Evangelical Ch

Unedited Interview with Amy Sullivan

Thursday, October 02 2008 04:59 PM

The Religious Right has gotten a fair amount of coverage in recent years, while the political Left has rarely been represented with a religious sensibility. Our guest, a national correspondent for Time magazine is a political liberal and an Evangelical Ch

Spiritual Tidal Wave: The Origins and Impact of Pentecostalism (Encore).

Thursday, September 18 2008 05:00 PM

The birth of the Pentecostal movement began 100 years ago on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. We'll be taking our show on the road to cover this global gathering and revival that is reshaping Christianity, culture, and politics worldwide.

Krista's Unedited Interview with Cecil M. Robeck, Jr.

Thursday, September 18 2008 04:59 PM

The birth of the Pentecostal movement began 100 years ago on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. We'll be taking our show on the road to cover this global gathering and revival that is reshaping Christianity, culture, and politics worldwide.

Krista's Unedited Interview with Arlene Sanchez-Walsh

Thursday, September 18 2008 04:59 PM

The birth of the Pentecostal movement began 100 years ago on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. We'll be taking our show on the road to cover this global gathering and revival that is reshaping Christianity, culture, and politics worldwide.

Stress and the Balance Within (Encore).

Thursday, September 04 2008 05:00 PM

The American experience of stress has spawned a multi-billion dollar self-help industry. Wary of this, Esther Sternberg says that, until recently, modern science did not have the tools or the inclination to take emotional stress seriously. She shares fasc

Unedited Interview with Esther Sternberg

Thursday, September 04 2008 04:59 PM

The American experience of stress has spawned a multi-billion dollar self-help industry. Wary of this, Esther Sternberg says that, until recently, modern science did not have the tools or the inclination to take emotional stress seriously. She shares fasc

Rick and Kay Warren at Saddleback (Encore).

Thursday, August 21 2008 05:00 PM

In this program we revisit a 2007 conversation with evangelical leaders Rick and Kay Warren — exploring where they came from and what motivates them. Rick Warren hosted the first post-primary joint appearance of Barack Obama and John McCain at his Saddleb

Unedited Interview with Rick and Kay Warren

Thursday, August 21 2008 04:59 PM

In this program we revisit a 2007 conversation with evangelical leaders Rick and Kay Warren — exploring where they came from and what motivates them. Rick Warren hosted the first post-primary joint appearance of Barack Obama and John McCain at his Saddleb

The Business of Doing Good (Encore).

Thursday, July 31 2008 05:00 PM

The news has been marked in recent years, at regular intervals, by the moral and practical downfall of prominent businesses. Jonathan Greenblatt is among a new generation of entrepreneurs who want to lead a fundamental shift in corporate culture as well a

Unedited Interview with Jonathan Greenblatt

Thursday, July 31 2008 04:59 PM

The news has been marked in recent years, at regular intervals, by the moral and practical downfall of prominent businesses. Jonathan Greenblatt is among a new generation of entrepreneurs who want to lead a fundamental shift in corporate culture as well a

Pagans Ancient and Modern (Encore).

Thursday, June 12 2008 05:00 PM

An environmentalist who pursued the ecological impulse of Paganism, from its ancient roots to its modern revival in Europe and North America, discusses his observations about the spirit of Paganism and its influence on everyday Western culture — and even

Unedited Interview with Adrian Ivakhiv

Thursday, June 12 2008 04:59 PM

An environmentalist who pursued the ecological impulse of Paganism, from its ancient roots to its modern revival in Europe and North America, discusses his observations about the spirit of Paganism and its influence on everyday Western culture — and even

The Spirituality of Addiction and Recovery (Encore).

Thursday, May 15 2008 05:00 PM

Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson once said that the program he helped create is, "utter simplicity which encases a complete mystery." Our guests reflect on the Twelve Steps and how they resonate in their personal stories and in Buddhist and Chr

Unedited Interview with Susan Cheever

Thursday, May 15 2008 04:59 PM

Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson once said that the program he helped create is, "utter simplicity which encases a complete mystery." Our guests reflect on the Twelve Steps and how they resonate in their personal stories and in Buddhist and Chr

Unedited Interview with Kevin Griffin

Thursday, May 15 2008 04:59 PM

Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson once said that the program he helped create is, "utter simplicity which encases a complete mystery." Our guests reflect on the Twelve Steps and how they resonate in their personal stories and in Buddhist and Chr

Unedited Interview with Betty Davis-Reynolds

Thursday, May 15 2008 04:59 PM

Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson once said that the program he helped create is, "utter simplicity which encases a complete mystery." Our guests reflect on the Twelve Steps and how they resonate in their personal stories and in Buddhist and Chr

Unedited Interview James Nelson

Thursday, May 15 2008 04:59 PM

Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson once said that the program he helped create is, "utter simplicity which encases a complete mystery." Our guests reflect on the Twelve Steps and how they resonate in their personal stories and in Buddhist and Chr

The Beauty and Challenge of Being Catholic: Hearing the Faithful (Encore).

Thursday, May 01 2008 05:00 PM

We received hundreds of essays in response to our query about what anchors and unsettles our Catholic audience. So we asked some of you to speak about your tradition. The moving reflections we heard prompted us to depart from our usual format and bring yo

A Seminarian's Long-Term Perspective

Thursday, May 01 2008 04:59 PM

We received hundreds of essays in response to our query about what anchors and unsettles our Catholic audience. So we asked some of you to speak about your tradition. The moving reflections we heard prompted us to depart from our usual format and bring yo

A Nun and Educator Looks to the Future

Thursday, May 01 2008 04:59 PM

We received hundreds of essays in response to our query about what anchors and unsettles our Catholic audience. So we asked some of you to speak about your tradition. The moving reflections we heard prompted us to depart from our usual format and bring yo

Evangelical Politics: Three Generations (Encore).

Thursday, April 17 2008 05:00 PM

A passionate discussion is unfolding in public and in private among Evangelical leaders and communities. Should Christians be involved in politics and if so, how? What has gone wrong, and what has been learned from the Moral Majority up until now. In this

Unedited Interview with Charles Colson, Greg Boyd, and Shane Claiborne

Thursday, April 17 2008 04:59 PM

A passionate discussion is unfolding in public and in private among Evangelical leaders and communities. Should Christians be involved in politics and if so, how? What has gone wrong, and what has been learned from the Moral Majority up until now. In this

Exploring a New Humanism (Encore).

Thursday, March 27 2008 05:00 PM

In a recent Pew poll, 16 percent of Americans identified themselves as "unaffiliated" — atheist, agnostic, or most prominently "nothing in particular." Greg Epstein, a Humanist chaplain at Harvard, described himself that way until he discovered the tradit

A New Voice for Islam (Encore).

Thursday, March 06 2008 06:00 PM

Ingrid Mattson, the first woman and first convert to lead the Islamic Society of North America, describes her experience of Islamic spirituality, which she discovered in her twenties after a Catholic upbringing. We probe her unusual perspective on a tumul

Unedited Interview with Ingrid Mattson

Thursday, March 06 2008 05:59 PM

Ingrid Mattson, the first woman and first convert to lead the Islamic Society of North America, describes her experience of Islamic spirituality, which she discovered in her twenties after a Catholic upbringing. We probe her unusual perspective on a tumul

Remembering Forward (Encore).

Thursday, January 31 2008 06:00 PM

Before a live audience at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, Krista reads from her book, "Speaking of Faith." She traces the intersection of human experience and religious ideas in her own life, just as she asks her guests to do.

Unedited Audio with Krista Tippett

Thursday, January 31 2008 05:59 PM

Before a live audience at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, Krista reads from her book, "Speaking of Faith." She traces the intersection of human experience and religious ideas in her own life, just as she asks her guests to do.

Inside Mormon Faith (Encore).

Thursday, January 24 2008 06:00 PM

Americans have been hearing a lot about Mormonism in the context of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. But much of the public discussion of this faith of 13 million people has focused on controversies in the church's history. We'll avoid well-trodden gr

Unedited Interview with Robert Millet

Thursday, January 24 2008 05:59 PM

Americans have been hearing a lot about Mormonism in the context of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. But much of the public discussion of this faith of 13 million people has focused on controversies in the church's history. We'll avoid well-trodden gr

Discovering Where We Live: Reimagining Environmentalism (Encore).

Thursday, January 17 2008 06:00 PM

Environmentalism and climate change are hot topics; yet they're still often imagined as the territory of scientists, expert activists, and those who can afford to be environmentally conscious. We discover two people who are transforming the ecology of the

Unedited Interview with Cal DeWitt

Thursday, January 17 2008 05:59 PM

Environmentalism and climate change are hot topics; yet they're still often imagined as the territory of scientists, expert activists, and those who can afford to be environmentally conscious. We discover two people who are transforming the ecology of the

Unedited Interview with Majora Carter

Thursday, January 17 2008 05:59 PM

Environmentalism and climate change are hot topics; yet they're still often imagined as the territory of scientists, expert activists, and those who can afford to be environmentally conscious. We discover two people who are transforming the ecology of the

Diplomacy and Religion in the 21st Century (Encore).

Thursday, January 03 2008 06:00 PM

The greatest threat in the post-Cold War world, says Douglas Johnston, is the prospective marriage of religious extremism with weapons of mass destruction. Yet the U.S. spends most of its time, resources, and weapons fighting the symptoms of this threat,

The New Evangelical Leaders: Part II - Rick and Kay Warren (Encore).

Thursday, December 06 2007 06:00 PM

The second program in our series on guiding figures in what some are calling the "post Religious Right era." This program's guests are conservative Evangelicals who are increasingly being watched by a new generation of Christian and secular leaders. They

Unedited Interview with Rick and Kay Warren

Thursday, December 06 2007 05:59 PM

The second program in our series on guiding figures in what some are calling the "post Religious Right era." This program's guests are conservative Evangelicals who are increasingly being watched by a new generation of Christian and secular leaders. They

The New Evangelical Leaders: Part I - Jim Wallis

Thursday, November 29 2007 06:00 PM

The first in a two-part series on influential leaders who are reshaping Evangelical Christianity from within progressive and conservative circles.

Unedited Interview with Jim Wallis

Thursday, November 29 2007 05:59 PM

The first in a two-part series on influential leaders who are reshaping Evangelical Christianity from within progressive and conservative circles.

The Heart's Reason: Hinduism and Science (Encore).

Thursday, November 22 2007 06:00 PM

U.S. culture's clash between religion and science is almost exclusively driven by Christian instincts and arguments. Hindu physicist V.V. Raman offers another view of religion, the universe, and the complementarity of the questions of science and fait

Unedited Interview with Varadaraja V. Raman

Thursday, November 22 2007 05:59 PM

U.S. culture's clash between religion and science is almost exclusively driven by Christian instincts and arguments. Hindu physicist V.V. Raman offers another view of religion, the universe, and the complementarity of the questions of science and fait

Money and Moral Balance (Encore).

Thursday, November 08 2007 06:00 PM

The sales are starting, the stores are open late, and many of us are gearing up to spend more money than we actually have in a holiday season with deep roots in religion. We explore the turmoil many of us experience with money in our day-to-day lives — an

Burma - Buddhism and Power

Thursday, November 01 2007 05:00 PM

A look inside the spiritual culture of Burma, exploring the meaning of monks taking to the streets there in September, the way in which religion and military rule are intertwined, and how Buddhism remains a force in and beyond the current crisis.

Unedited Interview with Ingrid Jordt

Thursday, November 01 2007 04:59 PM

A look inside the spiritual culture of Burma, exploring the meaning of monks taking to the streets there in September, the way in which religion and military rule are intertwined, and how Buddhism remains a force in and beyond the current crisis.

Moral Man and Immoral Society: Rediscovering Reinhold Niebuhr (Encore).

Thursday, October 25 2007 05:00 PM

We explore the ideas and present-day relevance of 20th century theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, an influential, boundary-crossing voice in American public life. Niebuhr created the term "Christian realism:" a middle path between religious idealism and arrogan

Beyond the Atheism-Religion Divide

Thursday, October 18 2007 05:00 PM

In 1965, a young Harvard professor became the best-selling voice of secularism in America with his book "The Secular City." He sees the old thinking in the "new atheism" of figures like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.

Obedience and Action (Encore).

Thursday, October 04 2007 05:00 PM

In over 50 years as a Benedictine nun, Sister Joan Chittister has emerged as a powerful and uncomfortable voice in Roman Catholicism and in global politics. If women were ordained in the Catholic Church in our lifetime, some say, Joan Chittister would be

Unedited Interview with Joan Chittister

Thursday, October 04 2007 04:59 PM

In over 50 years as a Benedictine nun, Sister Joan Chittister has emerged as a powerful and uncomfortable voice in Roman Catholicism and in global politics. If women were ordained in the Catholic Church in our lifetime, some say, Joan Chittister would be

Surviving the Religion of Mao (Encore).

Thursday, September 13 2007 05:00 PM

Author Anchee Min has won acclaim for her memoir of growing up in China under Mao Zedong. She's also written several works of fiction in which she explores the human hunger to survive against extreme social brutality. In this conversation, Anchee Min tell

Unedited Interview with Anchee Min

Thursday, September 13 2007 04:59 PM

Author Anchee Min has won acclaim for her memoir of growing up in China under Mao Zedong. She's also written several works of fiction in which she explores the human hunger to survive against extreme social brutality. In this conversation, Anchee Min tell

Religious Passion, Pluralism, and the Young (Encore).

Thursday, August 16 2007 05:00 PM

A 30-year-old, Indian-American Muslim and former Rhodes Scholar is setting out to change the way young people relate to their own religious traditions and those of others. Al-Quaeda is the most effective youth program in the world, he says, and we neglect

Unedited Interview with Eboo Patel

Thursday, August 16 2007 04:59 PM

A 30-year-old, Indian-American Muslim and former Rhodes Scholar is setting out to change the way young people relate to their own religious traditions and those of others. Al-Quaeda is the most effective youth program in the world, he says, and we neglect

L'Arche: A Community of Brokenness and Beauty (Encore).

Thursday, August 02 2007 05:00 PM

Forty years ago in France, philosopher Jean Vanier founded an international movement, L'Arche. The L'Arche community in Clinton, Iowa is part of this movement — people of faith living and worshipping alongside developmentally handicapped adults. There are

Latino Migrations and the Changing Face of Religion in the Americas (Encore).

Thursday, July 26 2007 05:00 PM

Vásquez believes that in the global age, religious dynamics may have a boomerang effect across the Americas with dramatic consequences. We explore how religion will shape the increasing Hispanic population and how religion itself might be changed.

Unedited Interview with Marie Friedmann Marquardt

Thursday, July 26 2007 04:59 PM

Vásquez believes that in the global age, religious dynamics may have a boomerang effect across the Americas with dramatic consequences. We explore how religion will shape the increasing Hispanic population and how religion itself might be changed.

Unedited Interview with Manuel A. Vásquez

Thursday, July 26 2007 04:59 PM

Vásquez believes that in the global age, religious dynamics may have a boomerang effect across the Americas with dramatic consequences. We explore how religion will shape the increasing Hispanic population and how religion itself might be changed.

Marriage, Family, and Divorce (Encore).

Thursday, July 05 2007 05:00 PM

American ideals and rituals of marriage, family, and divorce are infused with biblical messages. But what does the Bible really say, and how has it been taught across the centuries as the institution of marriage has changed dramatically and often? A rabbi

Unedited Interview with Elliot Dorff

Thursday, July 05 2007 04:59 PM

American ideals and rituals of marriage, family, and divorce are infused with biblical messages. But what does the Bible really say, and how has it been taught across the centuries as the institution of marriage has changed dramatically and often? A rabbi

Unedited Interview with Luke Timothy Johnson

Thursday, July 05 2007 04:59 PM

American ideals and rituals of marriage, family, and divorce are infused with biblical messages. But what does the Bible really say, and how has it been taught across the centuries as the institution of marriage has changed dramatically and often? A rabbi

A Spirit of Defiance (Encore).

Thursday, June 21 2007 05:00 PM

In this close-up look at the human dynamics of the war on terror, our guest speaks about her husband, journalist Daniel Pearl, who was murdered in Pakistan shortly after 9/11. She talks about Buddhism, her ethic of spiritual defiance, and her hopes for th

Unedited Interview with Mariane Pearl

Thursday, June 21 2007 04:59 PM

In this close-up look at the human dynamics of the war on terror, our guest speaks about her husband, journalist Daniel Pearl, who was murdered in Pakistan shortly after 9/11. She talks about Buddhism, her ethic of spiritual defiance, and her hopes for th

The Soul of War (Encore).

Thursday, May 24 2007 05:00 PM

With Iraq veteran and chaplain Major John Morris, we explore how war challenges the human spirit and the core tenets of a life of faith. The War on Terror, he says, presents its own spiritual challenges. He is working to support the reintegration of Natio

Science and Hope (Encore).

Thursday, May 10 2007 05:00 PM

Our guest straddles the worlds of cosmology and social activism. During a live audience interview in Philadelphia, he tells us how he unites his convictions about faith, ethics, and cosmology.

The Private Faith of Jimmy Carter

Thursday, April 26 2007 05:00 PM

Jimmy Carter -- former president and Nobel Laureate, author and global humanitarian -- speaks of his born-again faith with a directness that is striking even in today's political culture. He reflects on being commander in chief while following, as he says

The Evolution of American Evangelicalism (Encore).

Thursday, April 12 2007 05:00 PM

Last month, conservative Christian leaders demanded that Richard Cizik be silenced or removed from his post. They charged that his concerns about climate change and torture have shifted attention away from moral issues such as gay marriage and abortion. B

Truth and Reconciliation (Encore).

Thursday, March 22 2007 05:00 PM

South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) held public sessions from 1996 to 1998, and concluded its work in 2004. In an attempt to rebuild its society without retribution, the Commission created a new model for grappling with a history of e

Einstein's Ethics (Encore).

Thursday, March 15 2007 05:00 PM

Part one of this series takes Einstein's science as a starting point for exploring the great physicist's perspective on ideas such as mystery, eternity, and the mind of God.

Unedited Interview with S. James Gates

Thursday, March 15 2007 04:59 PM

Part one of this series takes Einstein's science as a starting point for exploring the great physicist's perspective on ideas such as mystery, eternity, and the mind of God.

Unedited Interview with Thomas Levenson

Thursday, March 15 2007 04:59 PM

Part one of this series takes Einstein's science as a starting point for exploring the great physicist's perspective on ideas such as mystery, eternity, and the mind of God.

Unedited Interview with Priyamvada Natarajan

Thursday, March 15 2007 04:59 PM

Part one of this series takes Einstein's science as a starting point for exploring the great physicist's perspective on ideas such as mystery, eternity, and the mind of God.

Sacred, Wilderness An African Story (Encore).

Thursday, February 22 2007 06:00 PM

Isabel Mukonyora has followed and studied a religious movement of her Shona people, the Masowe Apostles, that embraces Christian tradition while addressing the drama of African life and history. The founder of this movement, Johane Masowe, emphasized an a

Children of Abraham (Encore).

Thursday, February 08 2007 06:00 PM

The sacred story of Abraham traverses the geography of the most bitter political conflict in the modern world — beginning in what is now southern Iraq and ending in the West Bank city of Hebron. Yet Abraham is the common patriarch of Judaism, Islam, and C

Muslim Women and Other Misunderstandings (Encore).

Thursday, December 07 2006 06:00 PM

Is there such a thing as the Muslim world? Is the "veil" a sign of submission or courage? Is our Western concern about women in Islam really a concern for the well-being of women? Our guest, Egyptian-American Leila Ahmed, challenges current thought on the

America's Changing Religious Landscape: A Conversation with Martin Marty (Encore).

Thursday, November 02 2006 06:00 PM

A great public theologian and historian, Martin Marty offers personal and historical perspective on religion in modern life — including the nature of fundamentalism, and the decline of America's mainline Protestant majority as Evangelical Christianity gai

Unedited Interview with Martin E. Marty

Thursday, November 02 2006 05:59 PM

A great public theologian and historian, Martin Marty offers personal and historical perspective on religion in modern life — including the nature of fundamentalism, and the decline of America's mainline Protestant majority as Evangelical Christianity gai

Globalization and the Rise of Religion (Encore).

Thursday, October 12 2006 05:00 PM

Experts once predicted that as the world grew more modern, religion would decline. Precisely the opposite has proven true; religious movements are surging and driving "alternative globalizations" across the world. Two leading thinkers offer a penetrating

Faith Fired by Literature (Encore).

Thursday, September 28 2006 05:00 PM

Art, life, and religious faith converge in Paul Elie's unusual biography of the intersecting stories of four literary Americans of the 20th century: Trappist monk Thomas Merton, social activist Dorothy Day, and fiction writers Walker Percy and Flannery O'

Conservative Politics and Moderate Religion (Encore).

Thursday, September 14 2006 05:00 PM

Politics driven by a religious agenda, Danforth says, is true neither to his understanding of Christian faith nor to the traditional values of the Republican party. This veteran politician speaks about the values that have helped him navigate the line bet

Hearing Muslim Voices Since 9/11

Thursday, September 07 2006 05:00 PM

Dramatic headlines convey a predominantly violent picture of global Islam. But, during the past five years, Muslim guests on SOF have conveyed a thoughtful, questing, diverse, and compelling faith. Step back with us and hear these voices from the traditio

Seeing Poverty after Katrina (Encore).

Thursday, August 24 2006 05:00 PM

Hurricane Katrina brought urban poverty in America into all of our living rooms. In this program, David Hilfiker tells the story of how poverty and racial isolation came to be in cities across America. He lives creatively and realistically with questions

Gay Marriage: Broken or Blessed? Two Evangelical Views (Encore).

Thursday, August 03 2006 05:00 PM

Our culture's acrimonious debate on the morality of gay marriage has been framed in religious — largely conservative Christian — terms. We go behind the rhetoric to explore the human confusion, hopes, and fears this subject arouses. We'll name hard questi

The Tragedy of the Believer (Encore).

Thursday, July 13 2006 05:00 PM

A survivor of the Holocaust, in which he lost most of his family, Wiesel is a seminal chronicler of that event and its meaning. Wiesel shares some of his thoughts on modern-day Israel and Germany, his understanding of God, and his practice of prayer after

Deciphering the Da Vinci Code (Encore).

Thursday, June 01 2006 05:00 PM

The wildly popular novel turned movie reimagines the New Testament, in part, as a cover-up. What really happened in the fluid early years of Christianity? What is the truth about Mary Magdalene? We separate fact from fiction in the story's plot with two N

Room for J: One Family's Struggle with Schizophrenia (Encore).

Thursday, May 04 2006 05:00 PM

Joel Hanson has schizophrenia and believes he is God. His parents reflect on living with their son and how they have learned to see mental illness, normalcy, and religion differently. Is there room in our culture to consider a schizophrenic personality as

Two Narratives, Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian Present (part 2)

Thursday, March 16 2006 06:00 PM

As Israel prepares for a critical election and Hamas forms a Palestinian cabinet, we explore the difficulty of reaching resolution in a land that its inhabitants, on both sides of the conflict, consider holy. Our guests in this two-part series, Israeli an

Two Narratives, Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian Present (part 1)

Thursday, March 09 2006 06:00 PM

As Israel prepares for a critical election and Hamas forms a Palestinian cabinet, we explore the difficulty of reaching resolution in a land that its inhabitants, on both sides of the conflict, consider holy. Our guests in this two-part series, Israeli an

The Gods of Business (Encore).

Thursday, February 23 2006 06:00 PM

In an age of Enron and WorldCom, how can we imagine a place for business ethics, much less religious virtue, in the global economy? We speak with a Hindu international business analyst who offers learned, fascinating observations about how the world's myr

The Face of the Prophet: Cartoons and Chasm

Thursday, February 16 2006 06:00 PM

Our guest, an American Muslim and religious scholar, helps untangle the knot of violent and bewildered reactions to cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

Ethics and the Will of God: The Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Encore).

Thursday, February 02 2006 06:00 PM

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose life spanned the rise and fall of Hitler's Germany, offers us a model of personal morality and conscience in the most troubled and immoral of times. His resistance of Nazi ideology, while much of the German church succumbed, is

A Midwife to the Dying with Joan Halifax (Encore).

Thursday, December 01 2005 06:00 PM

The Terri Schiavo case earlier this year raised ethical and medical issues that remain with us today. But missing in that debate was a real attention to the quality and the meaning of death. Joan Halifax tells us what she's learned and how she lives diffe

At Table: The Meaning of Communion (Encore).

Thursday, November 24 2005 06:00 PM

What are the origins of communion, and what is its deepest social relevance? Two leading theologians of communion describe a ritual that is not just personally meaningful for the believer, but also collectively and ethically challenging for Christians.

Living Reconciliation: Two Ecumenical Pioneers

Thursday, November 03 2005 06:00 PM

Two people with unique perspectives both discovered ecumenism — the movement to reconcile Christian churches — during the Civil Rights era. They'll describe what they've learned about grappling with vexing clashes of difference, and why reconciliation amo

Evangelicals Out of the Box

Thursday, October 20 2005 05:00 PM

Stereotypes tell us this: Evangelical Christians are politically conservative, closed-minded, morally judgmental, and anti-science. We speak with two creative members of a new generation of Evangelical thinkers and teachers, who defy stereotypes and revea

Religion and Violence (Encore).

Thursday, August 04 2005 05:00 PM

Religious extremism drives some of the most intractable conflicts around the world. Our guest knows this shadow side of the Christian faith in his personal history. We'll speak about what goes wrong when religion turns violent, and why, he believes, the c

Progressive Islam in America (Encore).

Thursday, July 28 2005 05:00 PM

In the years since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, scrutiny of the religion of Islam has become part and parcel of our public life. In forums of all kinds, often guided by non-Muslim pundits, we ask, what does terrorism have to do with the

In Praise of Play (Encore).

Thursday, June 30 2005 05:00 PM

If sport is an American religion, is that bad for us? What is the metaphysic of baseball? In this show, we'll speak with a theologian and sports fan who has spent much of his career studying the religious character of rituals in sporting events and the sp

Religion and Our World in Crisis (Encore).

Thursday, June 09 2005 05:00 PM

In this personal exchange between a Jewish rabbi and Islamic scholar, host Krista Tippett explores the integrity of religious faith and openness to the faiths of others. In a world in which religious experience is implicated in violence, two thinkers disc

Serving Country, Serving Allah

Thursday, May 26 2005 05:00 PM

There are an estimated 4,000 Muslim soldiers in the U.S. military, though some counts place that number much higher. We'll speak with the first Muslim imam in the US Army Chaplaincy -- Major Abdul-Rasheed Muhammad -- about Iraq, faith, and military servic

Reflections on the Death Penalty in America (Encore).

Thursday, April 14 2005 05:00 PM

The American public supports the principle of capital punishment, but there is a growing consensus among Jewish and Christian thinkers — across traditional liberal/conservative lines — that it should be abolished in this country or suspended while the sys

The Morality of Nature

Thursday, April 07 2005 05:00 PM

We explore the human and religious implications of natural disasters through the eyes of two scientists steeped in the workings of the natural world. We approach the morality of nature from a non-theological angle, tracing how natural disasters have somet

The Religious Legacy of John Paul II (Encore).

Saturday, April 02 2005 06:00 PM

John Paul II's papacy was dramatic and historic on many fronts. Speaking of Faith explores some of the critical religious issues of his 26 years as pontiff and discusses the great and contradictory impact he made on the Catholic Church in America and abro

The Jewish Roots of the Christian Story (Encore).

Thursday, March 24 2005 06:00 PM

New Testament writings about Jews may sound inflammatory in modern ears. A New Testament scholar with ties to both Judaism and Christianity helps us put these writings in context and look for meaning in the Passion that Hollywood and popular culture can't

A Theological Perspective on Cloning (Encore).

Thursday, March 03 2005 06:00 PM

The idea of human cloning both fascinates and repulses many, and challenges us to ask difficult religious questions?

A Return to the Mystery: Religion, Fantasy, and Entertainment (Encore).

Thursday, February 03 2005 06:00 PM

As new generations work out their spiritual and religious questions, they are increasingly turning to fantasy. We'll explore the deep appeal of films like "Harry Potter" and "The Matrix," and how fantasy in media reflects a changing spiritual imagination.

The Future of Moral Values

Thursday, January 20 2005 06:00 PM

We deconstruct the phrase "moral values," which has confused and divided Americans since November's election. As the second term of George W. Bush commences, political analyst Steven Waldman helps explore what these words do and do not convey to liberals

The Spirit of Islam (Encore).

Thursday, January 06 2005 06:00 PM

We experience the religious thought and the spiritual vitality of two Muslims—male and female—both American and both with roots in ancient Islamic cultural, intellectual, and spiritual traditions. Their stories and ideas, music, and readings, evoke a sens

Children and God (Encore).

Thursday, December 16 2004 06:00 PM

Maria Montessori, the great 20th-century educational pioneer, observed that children have an intuition for religious life at an early age that is matched only by their capacity to acquire language. During this holiday season, Speaking of Faith explores th

The Other Religious America in Election 2004

Thursday, October 21 2004 05:00 PM

In this show, we speak with an African American Christian and an American Muslim and explore the perspectives of two religious communities which defy the broad stereotypes of this election year. We'll seek to gain a deeper understanding of the way in whic

The Meaning of Faith (Encore).

Thursday, October 07 2004 05:00 PM

In our time, some associate the word "religion" with rigid dogma and the excesses of institutions. The word "spirituality" on the other hand can seem to have little substance or form. The word "faith" can appear as a compromise of sorts, pointing to the c

Violence and Crisis in Islam

Thursday, September 30 2004 05:00 PM

Many Americans received a violent introduction to Islam in September 2001. And yet, only one quarter of Americans told pollsters then that they considered Islam itself to be more likely than other religions to encourage violence in its believers. In the l

Science and Being (Encore).

Thursday, September 23 2004 05:00 PM

Many of history's greatest scientists considered their work to be a religious endeavor, a direct search for God. Pioneers like Newton, Copernicus, and Galileo believed that their discoveries told humanity more about God's nature than had been known. Begin

Beyond the God Gap

Thursday, September 16 2004 05:00 PM

The theory of the "God gap"—often broadly suggesting that religious Americans are conservative and will vote Republican while non-religious Americans are liberal and will vote Democratic—has been prominent in press reporting and political maneuvering in t

The Power of Fundamentalism (Encore).

Thursday, August 19 2004 05:00 PM

Religious fundamentalism has reshaped our view of world events. In this show, host Krista Tippett explores the appeal of fundamentalism in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, as experienced from the inside. Three accomplished men, who were religious extremi

Religion and Politics with Joseph Califano

Thursday, July 15 2004 05:00 PM

We speak with Washington insider Joseph Califano, a devout, lifelong Catholic, who held key positions inside the Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter administrations. Califano provides frank insight into the practical difficulties of applying religious ideals in

Pentecostalism in America (Encore).

Thursday, June 10 2004 05:00 PM

Pentecostalism began on the American frontier, and it has become one of the largest expressions of global Christianity. In less than a century, it has grown to hundreds of millions of adherents. Today, Pentecostalism is pan-denominational. There are chari

Sacrifice and Reconciliation (Encore).

Thursday, May 27 2004 05:00 PM

In remembering the legacy of four World War II chaplains -- Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish -- who went down together with their torpedoed ship in 1943, we speak with David Fox, nephew of one of the chaplains. We also hear interviews with surviving veter

A Program for Passover and Easter (Encore).

Thursday, April 08 2004 05:00 PM

In the coinciding seasons of Passover and Easter, two world religions celebrate their core stories in ritual and worship. Each of these sacred holidays is based on a key biblical story of suffering and deliverance.The Christian Holy Week commemorates

A Perspective on Islam in Iraq (Encore).

Thursday, March 04 2004 06:00 PM

The religious landscape of Iraq is complex and somewhat enigmatic to the western world. Nearly 97% of Iraq's 25 million people are Muslim, and a majority of Iraqis are Shiite rather than Sunni. What does that mean? And how powerful is the prominent cleric

Work and Conscience (Encore).

Thursday, February 12 2004 06:00 PM

Host Krista Tippett explores the practical implications of spirituality at work with Federal Bureau of Investigations special agent and whistleblower Coleen Rowley and syndicated columnist Tim McGuire. In May 2002, Rowley wrote a now-famous 13-page let

Religion on the Campaign Trail

Thursday, January 22 2004 06:00 PM

Religious pronouncements seem to have become mandatory for the Democratic candidates in this election. Yet it's been easy to deride the resulting sound bites that are widely repeated—such as Howard Dean's proclamation of his favorite book of the New Testa

Religious Liberty in America: The Legacy of Church and State (Encore).

Thursday, January 15 2004 06:00 PM

At the center of our history of church and state is a troublesome irony. What began as an attempt to guarantee religious tolerance in the new world has at various times been commandeered by the most chauvinistic movements America has known. In spite of th

Patterns of Prayer (Encore).

Thursday, November 27 2003 06:00 PM

In recent years, the practices of prayer have been evolving for many religious traditions. Even western medicine is looking at prayer as it expands its concept of healing. In this program, we consult several people from a variety of practices about the ro

Homosexuality and the Divided Church

Friday, August 08 2003 05:00 PM

The General Convention of the Episcopal Church has sharpened our culture's intensifying focus on homosexuality. In a year of political and religious milestones for gays and lesbians, Gene Robinson became the first openly gay man to be elected an Episcopal

Women, Marriage, and Religion

Friday, August 01 2003 05:00 PM

Over the last four decades, women's roles have changed dramatically — at home, in the work force and in religious institutions as well. In America, resistance to this is often couched in religious terms. Where there is a backlash against feminism and its

Spirituality and Sexuality (Encore).

Friday, June 27 2003 05:00 PM

Christian scripture and tradition have overwhelmingly shaped American attitudes toward sexuality. And in the past year, our national attention has been riveted on sexual scandal within the Catholic Church. In this program, we crack open the difficult subj

Religion in a Time of War (Encore).

Friday, April 25 2003 05:00 PM

More than any crisis in modern memory, the War on Terror—including the current U.S. military presence in Iraq—is being debated in religious, usually Christian, terms. We explore the nuances of that debate with a former war correspondent, a political theor

Faith and Politics in America

Thursday, February 20 2003 06:00 PM

At the The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in Washington, DC, former New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Congressman Mark Souder of Indiana speak about how they reconcile personal religious conviction with serving a pluralistic American constituency.

The Spiritual Fallout of 9/11 (Encore).

Thursday, September 05 2002 05:00 PM

In this program, we delve into uncomfortable religious and moral questions that the September 2001 terrorist attacks raised—questions of meaning that Americans have only begun to ponder one year later.This hour also features the riveting first-person

The Problem of Evil (Encore).

Friday, February 15 2002 06:00 PM

Many around the world labeled the events of September 11 as "evil." President Bush in his recent State of the Union speech described "an axis of evil." But what does the word mean? It is a subject of enduring theological debate, even of scientific argumen

Justice and a Just War (Encore).

Friday, November 09 2001 06:00 PM

Just-war theory was set in motion in the 5th century as St. Augustine agonized over how to reconcile Christianity's high ethical ideals with the devastating world realities which were bringing about the fall of Rome. For 1,600 years, theologians, ethicist

Where Was God? (Encore).

Saturday, September 22 2001 05:00 PM

Great religious minds reflect on tragedies surrounding September 11, 2001. As America moves beyond raw emotion and religious sentiment, this program explores theological and spiritual reflection for the long haul. A gathering of provocative reflections ac