On Being with Krista Tippett

Cedric Good House talked to Krista Tippett from a studio in Bismarck, North Dakota with his son Rick and wife Sissy. Hear him speak about Lakota tradition and Sitting Bull's legacy, while his wife and son accompany with music. This interview is included in the show "Tatanka Iyotake: Reimagining Sitting Bull." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.

Krista Tippett interviewed Carole Barrett for "Tatanka Iyotake: Reimagining Sitting Bull." LIsten to the produced show at onbeing.org.

The poet Christian Wiman is giving voice to the hunger for faith -- and the challenges of faith -- for people living now. After a Texas upbringing soaked in a history of violence and a charismatic Christian culture, he was agnostic until he became actively religious again in his late 30s. Then he was diagnosed with a rare form of incurable blood cancer. He's bearing witness to something new happening in himself and in the world.

Krista Tippett interviewed poet Christian Wiman on March 21, 2012. This interview is included in the show "Remembering God." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.

Playwright Norman Allen offers this thoughtful guest essay on Easter not just being about Jesus' resurrection but Mary Magdalene too. Take two minutes to listen and read at the On Being Blog at onbeing.org.

An understanding of Easter from inside the Armenian Orthodox tradition. Vigen Guroian experiences Easter as as a call to our senses. He's a theologian who contemplates the grand ideas of incarnation, death, and eternity as they are revealed in life and in his garden. Krista Tippett explores his religious way of being in this Lenten season that is both mystical and literally down to earth.

Krista Tippett interviewed Armenian Orthodox theologian Vigen Guroian on February 22, 2007. This interview is included in the show "Restoring the Senses: Gardening and an Orthodox Easter." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.

The best way to nurture children's inner lives, Sylvia Boorstein says, is by taking care of our own inner selves for their sake. At a public event in suburban Detroit, Krista Tippett draws out the warmth and wisdom of the celebrated Jewish-Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist. And, in a light-hearted moment that is an audience pleaser, Boorstein shares what GPS might teach us about "recalculating" and our own inner equanimity.

An exclusive track of Sylvia Boorstein reading Pablo Neruda's poem "Keeping Quiet" during her interview with Krista Tippett. This poem is included in the On Being show "What We Nurture." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.

How do we prime our brains to take the meandering mental paths necessary for creativity? New techniques of brain imaging, neuropsychologist Rex Jung says, are helping us gain a whole new view on the differences between intelligence, creativity, and personality. He unsettles some old assumptions -- and suggests some new connections between creativity and family life, creativity and aging, and creativity and purpose.

Krista Tippett interviewed neuropsychologist Rex Jung on February 12, 2012. This interview is included in the show "Creativity and the Everyday Brain." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.

Being able-bodied, Kevin Kling says, is always only a temporary condition. Part funny guy, part poet and playwright, part wise man, Kling is known for NPR commentaries in his Minnesota accent that sounds straight out of the movie Fargo. With Krista Tippett, you'll hear his own special angle on life's humor and its ruptures. Born with a partially disabled left arm, in his 40s he then lost the use of his fully functional right one after a motorcycle accident nearly killed him. Take in his wisdom on the losses we're born with, and the losses we grow into -- and why we turn these things into stories.

Krista Tippett interviewed storyteller and humorist Kevin Kling on February 9, 2012. This interview is included in the show "The Losses and the Laughter We Live Into." Download the mp3 of the produced show at on-being-dot-org.

The 13th-century mystic and poet Rumi is a best-selling author in the modern West who has long influenced Islamic thought and spirituality, though his Muslim identity is often lost in translation. Enter the exuberant world of Rumi with Iranian-American poet and scholar Fatemeh Keshavarz. Delve into why Rumi matters in our time and how he understood searching and restlessness as a kind of arrival. And through a lush production of his words and poetry -- layered in Persian and English -- experience how he saw every form of human love as a mirror of the divine. And, how Rumi inspired the whirling dervishes.

Krista Tippett interviewed Fatemeh Keshavarz on January 17, 2007. This interview is included in the show "The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi." Download the mp3 of the produced show at on-being-dot-org.