On Being with Krista Tippett

Cedric talked to us from a studio in Bismarck, North Dakota with his son Rick and wife Sissy. Hear Cedric speak about Lakota tradition and Sitting Bull's legacy, while his wife and son accompany with music.

While we didn't include her voice in the program, Krista's conversation with Carole Barrett helped us better understand the legacy of Sitting Bull. Listen for another perspective.

A conversation about climate change and moral imagination with environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben. He's been ahead of the curve on this fantastically complex issue since he wrote "The End of Nature" in 1989. We explore his evolving perspective on human responsibility in a changing natural world.

We had to cut some great segments from Krista's conversation with Bill McKibben. Here you can listen to it all, and tell us what you think of our edits.

Heschel insisted that the opposite of good is not evil, it is indifference. Born into an esteemed Hasidic family in Poland in 1907, he was a mystic who wrote transcendent, poetic words about God. At the same time, he marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and organized religious leadership against the war in Vietnam, embodying the social activism of the biblical prophets he studied. We explore Heschel's teachings and his prophetic legacy -- his "spiritual audacity" -- for people in our time.

We had to cut some great segments from Krista's conversation with Eisen on the prophetic legacy of Abraham Joshua Heschel. Here you can listen to it all, and tell us what you think of our edits.

Kate Braestrup, a Unitarian-Universalist minister and author, is called in when children disappear in the woods or when snowmobilers disappear under the ice. She calls herself a doer whose sense of God emerges from what happens between and among people. We hear the wisdom she draws from the world of law enforcement in the wild where, as she puts it, "the rubber meets the road."

We had to cut some great segments from Krista and Kate Braestrup's original conversation for the radio. But, here you can listen to it all, and tell us what you think of our edits.

Neuroscientist Adele Diamond is helping to bring unfolding knowledge about the brain into classrooms and educational systems, and in the process she's challenging fundamental modern notions about education and life. Activities like reflection and play, music and sports, it turns out, not only nourish the many aspects of human spirit and personality, but also hone our minds.

An SOF Unheard Cut from a hotel room in Vancouver - Krista and Diamond met face-to-face to discuss education, cognitive neuroscience, the importance of play, and more. Here's your chance to be in the room and listen to it all.

A renowned Buddhist teacher and author, Matthieu Ricard trained as a cell biologist and is now part of the Dalai Lama's ongoing dialogue with scientists. We'll explore why hes been called "the happiest man in the world," and how he understands spirituality as "contemplative science."

An SOF Unheard Cut from a hotel room in Vancouver -- Krista and Ricard met face-to-face to discuss meditation, happiness, compassion, and more. Here's your chance to be in the room and listen to it all.

In the 1980's, long before she started airing conversations about religion and ethics in human life on Speaking of Faith, Krista worked as a journalist and diplomat in East Germany and divided Berlin. She reflects on the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years later - an event that continued a connection between historic happenings and a more personal occasion - her birthday.

Karen Armstrong speaks about her progression from a disillusioned and damaged young nun into, in her words, a "freelance monotheist." She's a formidable thinker and scholar, but as a theologian she calls herself an amateur -- noting that the Latin root of the word "amateur" means a love of one's subject. Seven years in a strict religious order nearly snuffed out her ability to think about faith at all. Here, we hear the story behind Armstrong's developing ideas about God.

In this SOF Unheard Cut, Krista speaks with Karen Armstrong, a best-selling author, scholar, and Catholic nun. Hear their complete conversation as Armstrong tells the story behind her developing ideas about God.