On Being with Krista Tippett

Somewhat unexpectedly, Sylvia Boorstein offered to lead a lovingkindness (metta) meditation in front of a crowd of 350 during her interview with Krista Tippett on February 15, 2011 on stage at The Community House in Birmingham, Michigan. What resulted was a magical experience in which the audience fully participated in this impromptu moment of reflection. This meditation is included in our show "What We Nurture." Download the mp3 of the produced show at on-being-dot-org.

Somewhat unexpectedly, Sylvia Boorstein offered to lead a lovingkindness (metta) meditation in front of a crowd of 350 during her interview with Krista Tippett on February 15, 2011 on stage at The Community House in Birmingham, Michigan. What resulted was a magical experience in which the audience fully participated in this impromptu moment of reflection. This meditation is included in our show "What We Nurture." Download the mp3 of the produced show at on-being-dot-org.

Dan Barber is a celebrated young chef -- but his passionate ethics and intellect have made him much more. He's out to restore food to its rightful place vis-a-vis our bodies, our ecologies, and our economies. And he would do this by resurrecting our natural insistence on flavor.

From Jerusalem, Yossi Klein Halevi teases out the complex nature of Jewish Israeli identity. The journalist and author believes that the Holy Land is a place where not merely religion, but the essential human story, plays itself out with particular intensity.

Yossi Klein Halevi is a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Israel. Krista Tippett spoke with him on March 13, 2011 at his office in Jerusalem. This interview is included in our show "Thin Places, Thick Realities." Download the mp3 of the produced show at on-being-dot-org.

For Mother's Day: a live event with Sylvia Boorstein. She is a Jewish/Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist, a mother and grandmother. We soak up her warmth and wisdom on nourishing our children's inner lives and our own, for their sakes.

Sylvia Boorstein is a founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Krista Tippett spoke with him on February 15, 2011 on stage at The Community House in Birmingham, Michigan. This interview is included in our show "What We Nurture." Download the mp3 of the produced show at on-being-dot-org.

Mohammad Darawshe is Arab with an Israeli passport -- a Muslim Palestinian citizen of the Jewish state. Like 20 percent of Israel's population, he is, as he puts it, a child of both identities. He brings an unexpected way of seeing inside the Middle Eastern present and future.

Mohammad Darawshe is co-executive director of The Abraham Fund Initiatives in Israel. Krista Tippett spoke with him on March 17, 2011 at his office outside of Jerusalem. This interview is included in our show "Children of Both Identities." Download the mp3 of the produced show at on-being-dot-org.

An understanding of Easter from inside the Armenian Orthodox tradition that is at once mystical and literally down to earth. Vigen Guroian is a theologian who experiences Easter as a call to our senses. He is passionate about the meaning of grand ideas like incarnation, death, and eternity as revealed in life and in his garden.

Vigen Guroian is a professor of religious studies in Orthodox Christianity at the University of Virginia. Krista Tippett spoke with him on February 22, 2007, from the studios of American Public Media in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was in a private recording studio in Charlottesville, Virginia. This interview is included in our show "Restoring the Senses: Gardening and an Orthodox Easter." Download the mp3 of the produced show at on-being-dot-org.

The biblical Exodus story is no simple story of heroes and villains; it's a complex picture of the possibilities and ironies of human passion and human freedom. Avivah Zornberg, author of "The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus," brings the text to life through the ancient Jewish art of Midrash. If you're not familiar with Exodus, you're in for a deeply sensual experience; and, even if you're well-versed in the text, you just might be surprised.

Avivah Zornberg is a celebrated, literary teacher of the Torah. We spoke with her on April 7, 2005, from the studios of American Public Media in St. Paul, Minnesota. She was in a private recording studio in Jerusalem. This interview is included in our show "Exodus, Cargo of Hidden Stories." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.

Sherry Turkle's book, "Alone Together," created a catchword for anxiety about the alienating potential of technology. But that's not really her message. We explore the real challenge she poses -- that we can and must lead examined lives with our digital objects -- actively shaping technology to human purposes.

Sherry Turkle directs the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. Her books include "Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other." Krista spoke with her on February 22, 2011, from the studios of American Public Media in St. Paul, Minnesota. This interview is included in our program "Alive Enough? Reflecting on Our Technology." Download an mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.