On Being with Krista Tippett

Krista's unedited conversation with Jacqueline Novogratz. She's the founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund and author of the memoir, "The Blue Sweater." Krista spoke with her on January 8, 2010, from the studios of American Public Media in St. Paul, Minnesota. She was in a private recording studio in New York City. This interview is included in our program "A Different Kind of Capitalism - Jacqueline Novogratz and the Reinvention of Aid." Download the mp3 of that produced show at speakingoffaith.org.

Trained as a musician, acoustic biologist Katy Payne was first to discover that humpback whales compose ever-changing songs to communicate, and first to understand that elephants communicate with one another across long distances by infrasound. We hear what she has learned about life in this world from two of its largest and most mysterious creatures.

Katy Payne is an acoustic biologist and founder of the Elephant Listening Project at Cornell University. Krista spoke with her on January 9, 2007, from the studios of American Public Media in St. Paul, Minnesota. She was in a private recording studio in Ithaca, New York. This interview is included in our program "Whale Songs and Elephant Loves." Download an mp3 of the produced show at speakingoffaith.org.

As the news is once again full of resolve to strengthen intelligence and tighten airport security, we revisit Krista's 2007 interview with former Islamist extremist Ed Husain. In a fervor to deter terrorist acts, he says, the West is failing to understand the true long term threat -- a spreading mindset that has made him and others susceptible to radicalization in the first place.

Krista's unedited conversation with Ed Husain. He's the author of "The Islamist: Why I Became an Islamic Fundamentalist, What I Saw Inside, and Why I Left." Krista spoke with him on December 7, 2007, from the studios of American Public Media in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was in the studios of the BBC in London. This interview is included in our program "Reflections of a Former Islamist Extremist." Download the mp3 of the produced show at speakingoffaith.org.

An expansive reflection on the meaning of intelligence with author and educator Mike Rose. We explore his perspective on hard subjects that drive to the heart of who we are as individuals, families, and a nation -- literacy, schooling, social class, and the deepest meaning of vocation.

Krista's unedited conversation with Mike Rose. He is a professor in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Krista spoke with him on December 1, 2009 from the studios of American Public Media in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was in the studios of public radio station KCRW in Santa Monica, California.

Americans are religious and non-religious, devout and irreverent. But in astonishing numbers, across that spectrum, most of us say that we pray. We open up the subject of prayer and explore how it sounds and what it means in three different traditions and lives -- with Anoushka Shankar, Stephen Mitchell, and Roberta Bondi.

In this Unheard Cut, Krista speaks with musician Anoushka Shankar from a Minneapolis hotel while she was touring in 2002. This interview is included in our program Approaching Prayer. Download the mp3 of the produced show at speakingoffaithdot.org.

In this Unheard Cut, Krista speaks with author and translator Stephen Mitchell. She interviewed him on April 22, 2002 from the studios of American Public Media in St. Paul, Minnesota; he was at his home in California. This interview is included in our program Approaching Prayer. Download the mp3 of the produced show at speakingoffaithdot.org.

You're listening to my unedited interview with Roberta Bondi. She's a Professor of Church History Emeritus at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. I spoke with her in April 2002 in a New York City hotel where we were both attending a conference. This interview is included in our program Approaching Prayer. Download the mp3 of the produced show at speaking-of-faith-dot-org.

For the Christmas season and the New Year, a rare conversation with one of the wise men in our world today -- Jean Vanier. The philosopher and Catholic social innovator created a model of community, L'Arche, that embodies the ideal of power in smallness and light in the darkness of human existence.

In October 2007, we travelled to the Bishop Claggett Center in rural Maryland for a rare interview with Jean Vanier. Listen to the entire conversation and hear what didn't make it into the program.

We pull out some of the lesser known threads of the legacy of this complex leader and American icon. Hear why his spiritual character has animated his own people in the last three decades -- more openly than at any time since his death in 1890.

We travelled to the home of Sitting Bull's great-grandson in Lead, South Dakota to talk to him in person. Hear the entire conversation with Ernie LaPointe from his living room.