Fairy tales don’t only belong to the domain of childhood. Their overt themes are threaded throughout hit TV series like Game of Thrones and True Blood, Grimm and Once Upon a Time. These stories survive, says Maria Tatar, by adapting across cultures and history. They are carriers of the plots we endlessly re-work in the narratives of our lives β helping us work through things like fear and hope.
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In her writing, it is Kate DiCamillo’s gift to make bearable the fact that joy and sorrow live so close, side by side, in life as it is (if not as we wish it to be). In this conversation, along with good measures of raucous laughter and a few tears, Kate summons us to hearts “capacious enough to contain the complexities and mysteries of ourselves and each other” βΒ qualities these years in the life of the world call forth from all of us, young and old, with ever greater poignancy and vigor.
This year, we were thrilled to host our very first On Being Gathering β a four-day coming-together of the On Being community for reflection, conversation, and companionship β at the 1440 Multiversity in the redwoods of Scotts Valley, California. We greeted each day with verse from some of our most beloved poets β and now weβd like to share these delightful moments with all of you. Peacemaker and poet John Paul Lederach opened Monday with a series of haikus.
April 16, 2020
Wendell Berry and Ellen Davis
The Art of Being Creatures
In this intimate conversation between Krista and one of her beloved teachers, we ponder the world and our place in it, through sacred text, with fresh eyes. Weβre accompanied by the meditative and prophetic poetry of Wendell Berry, read for us from his home in Kentucky: βStay away from anything / that obscures the place it is in. / There are no unsacred places; / there are only sacred places / and desecrated places. / Accept what comes of silence.”
We humans have this drive to erect barriers between ourselves and others, Luis Alberto Urrea says, and yet this makes us a little crazy. He is an exuberant, wise, and refreshing companion into the deep meaning and the problem of borders β what they are really about, what we do with them, and what they do to us.
The Mexican-American border was as close and personal to him as it could be when he was growing up β an apt expression of his parentsβ turbulent Mexican-American divorce. In his writing and in this conversation, he complicates every dehumanizing stereotype of Mexicans, “migrants” β and border guards. A deep truth of our time, Luis insists, is that βwe miss each other.β He offers a vision of the larger possibility of our time beyond the terrible tangles of today: that we might evolve the old illusion of the melting pot into a 21st-century richness of βus.” And he delightfully models that messiness and humor will be required.
November 15, 2012
Sherry Turkle
Alive Enough? Reflecting on Our Technology
Each of us, in our everyday interactions, chooses between letting technology shape us and shaping it towards human purposes, even towards honoring what we hold dear. Sherry Turkle, director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, is full of usable ideas β from how to declare email bankruptcy to teaching our children the rewards of solitude.
March 9, 2006
Yossi Klein Halevi
Two Narratives, Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian Present (part 1)
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 and Palestinian, identify deeply with the story and suffering of their own people. They are also individuals who from across tumultuous recent history have reached out to the other side. They find themselves embittered at the failure of the Oslo peace process, reeling from recent events, and uncertain about the future. We explore their unresolved questions and despair, and probe the deep longing for peace that remains within each of them and how they are imagining a future within new political realities.
January 22, 2004
Michael Cromartie and E. J. Dionne
Religion on the Campaign Trail
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 repeatedβsuch as Howard Dean’s proclamation of his favorite book of the New Testament: the Old Testament book of Job. Host Krista Tippett takes a larger view of what this election has to say about the role of religion in American life. Is it changing, and if so, what is substantive and important in that change?
Alain de Botton is a philosopher who likes the best of religion, but doesnβt believe in God. He says that the most boring question you can ask of any religion is whether it is true. But how to live, how to die, what is good, and what is bad β these are questions religion has sophisticated ways of addressing. So heβs created The School of Life β where people young and old explore ritual, community, beauty, and wisdom. He explains why these ideas shouldnβt be reserved just for believers.
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 you a fabric of voices from the Church itself.
Forms of religious devotion are shifting β and thereβs a new world of creativity toward crafting spiritual life while exploring the depths of tradition. Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is a fun and forceful embodiment of this evolution. Born into an eminent and ancient rabbinical lineage, as a young adult he moved away from religion towards storytelling, theater, and drag. Today he leads a pop-up synagogue in New York City that takes as its tagline βeverybody-friendly, artist-driven, God-optional.β Itβs not merely about spiritual community but about recovering the sacred and reinventing the very meaning of βwe.β
The wonderful civil rights elder Vincent Harding liked to look around the world for what he called “live human signposts” β human beings who embody ways of seeing and becoming and who point the way forward to the world we want to inhabit. And adrienne maree brown, who has inspired worlds of social creativity with her notions of “pleasure activism” and “emergent strategy,” is surely one of these.
We’re listening with new ears as she brings together so many of the threads that have recurred in this season of On Being: on looking the harsh complexity of this world full in the face while dancing with joy as life force and fuel and on keeping clear eyes on the reasons for ecological despair while giving oneself over to a loving apprenticeship with the natural world as teacher and guide. A love of visionary science fiction also finds a robust place in her work and this conversation. She altogether shines a light on an emerging ecosystem in our world over and against the drumbeat of what is fractured and breaking β the cultivation of old and new ways of seeing, towards a transformative wholeness of living.
The idea of human cloning both fascinates and repulses many, and challenges us to ask difficult religious questions?
February 14, 2019
Richard Davidson
A Neuroscientist on Love and Learning
Neuroscientist Richard Davidson is one of the central people whoβs helped us begin to see inside our brains. His work has illuminated the rich interplay between things we saw as separate not that long ago: body, mind, spirit, emotion, behavior, and genetics. Richard is applying what he’s learning about imparting qualities of character β like kindness and practical love β in lives and in classrooms. This live conversation was recorded at the Orange County Department of Education in Costa Mesa, California.
We are strange creatures. It is hard for us to speak about, or let in, the reality of frailty and death β the elemental fact of mortality itself. In this century, western medicine has gradually moved away from its understanding of death as a failure β where care stops with a terminal diagnosis. Hospice has moved, from something rare to something expected. And yet advances in technology have made it ever harder for physicians and patients to make a call to stop fighting death β often at the expense of the quality of this last time of life. Meanwhile, there is a new longevity industry which resists the very notion of decline, much less finitude.
Fascinatingly, the simple question which transformed the surgeon Atul Gawandeβs life and practice of medicine is this: What does a good day look like? As he has come to see, standing reverently before our mortality is an exercise in more intricately inhabiting why we want to be alive. This conversation evokes both grief and hope, sadness at so many deaths β including our species-level losses to Covid βΒ that have not allowed for this measure of care. Yet it also includes very actionable encouragement towards the agency that is there to claim in our mortal odysseys ahead.
The idea of reciting an unchanging creed sounds suspicious to modern ears. But the late, great historian Jaroslav Pelikan illuminated ancient tradition in order to enliven faith in the present and the future. He insisted that strong statements of belief will be necessary if pluralism in the 21st century is to thrive. We take in his moving, provocative perspective on our enduring need for creeds.
One of today’s most influential spiritual teachers shares his youthful experience of depression and despair β 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 “the pain body” β the accumulated emotional pain that may influence us and our relationships in negative ways. And Tolle talks about spirit and God, and what those concepts mean to him.
October 9, 2008
Rod Dreher
The Faith Life of the Party: Part II, The Right
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 war, but he voted for George W. Bush twice. We explore the little-known story of religiously influenced impulses within the conservative movement that diverge from the Religious Right.