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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…

February 25, 2020

Response to Investigation of Jean Vanier

Written by On Being Editors

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 portrait of poet Pádraig Ó Tuama

January 28, 2020

Poetry as a Place of Conversation

Written by Kristin Lin

Meet Pádraig Ó Tuama: poet, theologian, conflict mediator — and host of The On Being Project’s new podcast, Poetry Unbound. Those who have listened to Pádraig’s two On Being interviews (the first in 2017 and second alongside poet Marilyn Nelson in 2018) may know him…

Krista Tippett stands in front of an amusement park in Germany in the 1980s.

November 8, 2019

What the Berlin Wall and ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Taught Me About Time

Written by Krista Tippett

A conversation about Margaret Atwood's “Handmaid’s Tale” captures the wonder of witnessing historic change in the moment.

July 25, 2019

Loitering

Written by Ross Gay

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…

July 25, 2019

Name: Kayte Young; Phone Number: 555-867-5309

Written by Ross Gay

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…

July 25, 2019

“Joy Is Such a Human Madness”

Written by Ross Gay

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…

June 5, 2019

Three Callings for Your Life and for Our Time

Written by Krista Tippett

“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.

May 24, 2019

Life Isn’t a Straight Line — How to Chart Your Own ‘River of Life’

Written by Kristin Lin

This exercise is designed to help you reflect on your life and tell your story.

May 8, 2019

Finding Calm and Contemplation in the Classroom, with Poetry

Written by Kristin Lin

“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,…

May 2, 2019

Why We Should Talk More About Death (and How to Get Started)

Written by Kristin Lin

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…

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

Love and Fire

Written by Apricot Irving

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.

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

Christian, Conservative, Treehugger

Written by John Murdock

Exhausted, we all sat down for dinner at the end of a whirlwind day that had spanned two continents. Our jet-lagged group included Republican lawmakers, the chief policy voice for a major evangelical organization, and a couple of folks like me with ties to the right-leaning non-profit that had helped…

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