January 28, 2021
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Krista’s conversation with him is our episode: ‘I Worship Every Bird that I See.’ Drew Lanham: “If teaching is preaching, I’ve become a warmer, gentler pastor, more like the clergy at my mother’s church. Maybe it’s appropriate that these years have given me new spiritual release, too. I’ve…
January 25, 2021
Katherine May reads an excerpt from ‘Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times’
Listen to Krista’s full conversation with Katherine May in the On Being episode “How ‘Wintering’ Replenishes.” Katherine May: “A surprising cluster of novels and fairytales are set in the snow. Our knowledge of winter is a fragment of childhood, almost innate. All the…
If you have been following this season of Poetry Unbound, you may have noticed the individual prints that accompany each poem. Each one is designed from handset metal type and printed by artist Myrna Keliher. In 2012, she founded Expedition Press, a…
Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem is working with old wisdom and very new science about our bodies and nervous systems, and all we condense into the word “race.” “Your body — all of our bodies — are where changing the status quo must begin.” Find a quiet place and…
xiii. march fourteen, ‘twenty they say we’re at war i think we’re falling in love with the human race Memoriale: Haiku And The Crowned Newness On December 31, 2019, Chinese officials alerted the World Health Organization to an unknown form of pneumonia…
Editor’s note: In February 2020, L’Arche International released the results of an independent investigation that it commissioned into Jean Vanier, who died in 2019. The investigation determined that the L’Arche founder, Catholic philosopher and humanitarian engaged in manipulative sexual relationships with at least six women from 1970-2005. None…
A conversation about Margaret Atwood's “Handmaid’s Tale” captures the wonder of witnessing historic change in the moment.
When the peacebuilder John Paul Lederach reflected on his work with communities across the globe, he said one question sat at the heart of his work: “Where did we nourish and foster the creative imagination that permits you to bring into the world something that does not now exist? That’s the…
https://onbeing.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Loitering-for-CD.mp3 I’m sitting at a café in Detroit where in the door window is the sign with the commands NO SOLICITING NO LOITERING stacked like an anvil. I have a fiscal relationship with this establishment, which I developed by buying a coffee, and which makes…
https://onbeing.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/555-867-5309-for-CD.mp3 Today I was sitting down to a meeting with my friends Dave and Kayte to discuss the excerpt of Kayte’s graphic novel our little press is going to publish. When Kayte pulled the box from her bag that contains all her beautifully drawn pages, her…
https://onbeing.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Joy-Is-Such-a-Human-Madness-for-CD.mp3 Editor’s note: The audio above begins midway through the essay. So writes Zadie Smith toward the end of her beautiful essay “Joy.” She gets there by explaining that she has an almost constitutional proclivity toward being pleased. She is a delight to cook for, she suggests, because your…
“The life-giving, lifelong work of being ever more deeply human is work you do in service to our beautiful, hurting world.” Krista Tippett offers three callings for the class of 2019 at Middlebury College.
This exercise is designed to help you reflect on your life and tell your story.
“Poetry,” says David Whyte, “is language against which you have no defenses.” Poetry can also help us find our center after a chaotic moment — like recess. That’s the kind of space poetry provided for fourth- and fifth-grade students at The Juniper School in Durango, Colorado, last month. Every day,…
Why do we find it so difficult to talk about death? For as universal as death is, Americans seem to hesitate to acknowledge its place in our lives. In a national survey conducted by The Conversation Project last year, 92 percent of respondents said they think it’s important to have…
A letter from new Executive Director Lucas Johnson.
What is it that we are to do with grief? We can turn it inward, making prisoners of our own bodies. We can turn it against others. I want to believe that we can also be transformed by loss.
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.
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