This episode, a “theft of the dial.” Writer and traveler Pico Iyer turns the tables on our host Krista Tippett by asking her the questions. Her latest book, Becoming Wise, chronicles what she’s learned through her conversations with the most extraordinary voices across time and generations, across disciplines and denominations. An illuminating conversation on the mystery and art of living.
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To a question from listener Elena Rivera of Colorado Springs, Krista reflects on seeing this as a collective moment of transition (which is always stressful in human life) and ponders what we might integrate into the people we become on the other side of it. “To really, actively, accompany each other in holding that question — that might be a spiritual calling but also a civilizational calling for this very extraordinary transition,” she says.
Living the Questions is an occasional On Being segment where Krista muses on questions from our listening community. Submit your own at [email protected].
“If my kids ever said ‘I’m bored,’ I would say, ‘That is great. I’m so glad to hear that. Maybe you’re gonna get creative right now.’”
On mental downtime as a place of rest and refuge.
Living the Questions is an occasional On Being segment where Krista muses on questions from our listening community.
Simple ways to understand our emotions, and treat ourselves kindly, amidst pandemic realities, and why loss without closure is so stressful — these are themes touched on in this personal “Living the Questions” conversation between Krista and Pauline Boss. She created the field of “ambiguous loss” within psychology and family therapy. This is a companion conversation to our longer On Being conversation with Pauline: Navigating Loss without Closure.
“I am passionate about what I am passionate about. I’m scared about what I’m scared about, or I’m angry about what I’m angry about. And I know there are things I don’t understand, and I don’t want to stay this way forever, and I don’t want us to stay stuck here forever. So, I want to change and grow, and I invite you to be with me in that spirit too, and let’s see what happens.”
The word “civility” has been used to shut down righteous anger — but it can also open up possibility between us. Krista reflects on what civil engagement really looks like, and how it can challenge all of us to grow.
Living the Questions is an occasional On Being segment where Krista muses on questions from our listening community.
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 each week. Krista reflects on her adventure of conversation across the world’s traditions — and on the whole story of religion in human life, beyond the headlines of violence.
July 16, 2018
Living the Questions
How can we be present to what’s happening in the world without giving in to despair and hopelessness?
“However seriously we must take what’s happening in the world and what the headlines are reflecting, it is never the full story of our time. It’s not the last word on what we’re capable of. It’s not the whole story of us.”
On seeking hope and joy in troubling times.
Living the Questions is an occasional On Being segment where Krista muses on questions from our listening community.
To a question from listener Vanessa Parfett in Melbourne, Krista reflects on “Zoomzaustion” and relearning the primacy of our bodies. Also, how this helps explain poetry’s rise in our midst, and can make us more whole.
Living the Questions is an occasional On Being segment where Krista muses on questions from our listening community. Submit your own at [email protected].
August 6, 2018
Living the Questions
How can we embrace vulnerability in ourselves and in our culture?
“The incredible ripple effect of being at peace with our vulnerability in any situation is that it means that you have to develop compassion for yourself.”
On how vulnerability can bring us closer to ourselves and each other.
Living the Questions is an occasional On Being segment where Krista muses on questions from our listening community.
October 28, 2020
Living the Questions: Live!
What questions are you holding in yourself and for our world?
At this live Zoom event, Krista and Lucas Johnson, who leads The On Being Project’s social healing initiatives, turn toward questions before us in this year of rupture and see what possibility they might open for shared life — even as we disagree on much; even through tumult and uncertainty.
March 31, 2020
Living the Questions
At home, frustrated, and stressed — is ‘just being’ worthy right now?
As Anna Bondoc from Los Angeles wrote to us: So many of us are raised to believe that hard work is what makes us valuable; many of our professions and even our identities as helpers are on hold. How does self-worth interact with just being when we feel we’re doing nothing? Krista reflects on the problem with the phrase “just being” — and how settling inside ourselves right now, and kindness towards ourselves, are gifts to the world we want to make beyond this crisis.
Living the Questions is an occasional On Being segment where Krista muses on questions from our listening community. Submit your own at [email protected].
July 23, 2018
Living the Questions
How can we help young people feel like they have a voice in the world?
“I think of this as the wisdom of young adulthood and of the teenage years: You have this sense of urgency about what is possible.”
On nurturing the voice and agency of young citizens — and the importance of fostering intergenerational friendships.
Living the Questions is an occasional On Being segment where Krista muses on questions from our listening community.
With our colleague Lucas Johnson, Krista talks through the question of what questions matter for this moment. Can anyone use the word “we”? And how to begin walking forward?
Living the Questions is an occasional On Being segment where Krista muses on questions from our listening community. Submit your own at [email protected].
“Conversation is not just about words passing between mouths and ears. It’s about shared life. Listening is about bringing our lives into conversation.”
In the midst of public conversation around Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Krista reflects on what it really looks like to engage with one another across a moral issue with curiosity alongside our convictions.
Living the Questions is an occasional On Being segment where Krista muses on questions from our listening community.
While preparing for the next season of Poetry Unbound, host Pádraig Ó Tuama sat down with Krista Tippett for a conversation about the power of poetry to find us at the exact moment we need it. Pádraig and Krista also invite listeners to share their experience of Poetry Unbound through our survey.
You can also sign up for the latest updates from Poetry Unbound.
A letter from Krista Tippett about our reimagined digital home and what we’re building next.
The science-religion “debate” is an abstraction, and a distraction. It isn’t true to the deep nature of science, or of religion, or to the history of interplay between them. These are convictions I’m left with after a cumulative conversation that began a decade ago. And after spending the spring traveling…
Krista Tippett pays homage to Patrick Henry, a mentor who speaks to her enduring intuition that, in losing rote affiliation, religiosity and Christianity may have a chance to recover their deepest, wildest heart for the sake of the world.
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