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March 13, 2020

A Listening Care Package for Uncertain Times

Written by On Being Editors

The meaning of the Inuit word “qarrtsiluni” conjures up a striking image: “sitting together in the dark, waiting for something to happen.” Teju Cole shares the word in his On Being conversation, and it’s been increasingly resonant in the months and weeks since COVID-19 began affecting communities across the…

April 5, 2019

Of the Training of Black Men

Written by W.E.B. Du Bois

At the beginning of the 20th century, W.E.B. Du Bois asks, "what training for the profitable living together of black men and white?"

April 5, 2019

Of Our Spiritual Strivings

Written by W.E.B. Du Bois

The iconic essay that offered the world the language and concept of "double consciousness."

January 28, 2019

Marking 15 Years With a New Gathering Place

Written by Krista Tippett

A letter from Krista Tippett about our reimagined digital home and what we’re building next.

January 28, 2019

A New Chapter for The Civil Conversations Project

Written by Lucas Johnson

A letter from new Executive Director Lucas Johnson.

January 27, 2019

Being Lonely

Written by Kao Kalia Yang

What does it mean to remain faithful to our shyness? When feeling at home in ourselves is different from feeling at home in the world.

January 27, 2019

A Way Back to the Wildness of Death

Written by Suzanne Kelly

In a culture that encourages us to be passive bystanders in our mourning, green burials present an alternative that fosters meaningful connection — to ourselves and to the earth.

December 11, 2018

Advent Manifesto: Does My Soul Still Sing?

Written by John Paul Lederach

A century of reflections.

July 13, 2018

Good Conversation Is an Adventure

Written by Krista Tippett

A few weeks ago, Krista reached out on social media to ask for your questions. She shares the questions here in the hope that we might live in to them, together.

June 29, 2018

What I Learned About the Heart from a Man Who Lost His

Written by Daisy Hernández

Daisy Hernández has spent the last four years researching Chagas disease, a heart condition afflicting about 7 million people primarily in Latin America. But she has also learned about the heart’s metaphorical condition — and what happens we we stop seeing each other’s hearts.

June 29, 2018

Remembering Philando Castile on My Birthday

Written by Jeffrey Bissoy

From a conference room in Montréal, I prayed silently for Philando’s family and friends. I prayed for my state, which had once again erupted in chaos, just eight months after Jamar Clark, another black man, was shot and killed in North Minneapolis. I prayed for the safety of black lives everywhere because black life is not a given, it’s a blessing.

June 29, 2018

How Tender, Loving Male Friendships Can Save Us from Toxic Masculinity

Written by Tony Liu

Why don’t we value a masculinity that embraces tenderness and care? Tony Liu shares the life-affirming joy of his male friendships, and how they have opened him to the possibility of a masculinity that is more nourishing.

June 28, 2018

The Work of the Hands

Written by Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros

It’s with open hands that we welcome the stranger, open up to the light of a new day. With open hands we praise in church, we offer help in community, we wash off the day and welcome a new one.

June 27, 2018

What Does it Mean to Be a Man?

Written by Jonathan P. Higgins

What would it mean to rethink our definition of masculinity? Jonathan P. Higgins calls for an unlearning of our warped understanding of what it means to be a man, and a new definition that makes space for wholeness.

June 26, 2018

#MeToo and the Spiritual Struggle for Gratitude

Written by Diana Butler Bass

For those of us who have bravely said #metoo, gratitude can be difficult, especially if we sought refuge in religious communities that reinforced shame under the guise of salvation.

June 25, 2018

Welcome to the Brink of Everything

Written by Parker J. Palmer

How we travel the arc between our own sunrise and sundown is ours to choose: Will it be denial, defiance, or collaboration?

June 22, 2018

Suffering Is Both a Barrier and a Bridge

Written by Kao Kalia Yang

Going through hardships gives us strength in the places we’d never thought to develop, spaces we didn’t know we’d occupy, room to reach beyond ourselves, toward others who are where we had been.

June 20, 2018

The Benefits of Sending Your Privileged Child to an “Underperforming” School

Written by Courtney E. Martin

Economically privileged parents may think of school as a pipeline to success, but they can be so much more. How underperforming schools can offer a type of education that money could never buy.

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