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Speaking of Faith (Religion-Spirituality)

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  • Host: Krista Tippett
  • Host Krist Tippett on topics of faith and ethics in America; Drawing participants from the breadth of religious experience, this series asks how traditions of faith might illuminate themes of American life in substantive and surprising ways. Growing list of national awards.
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The Spiritual Audacity of Abraham Joshua Heschel (December 3, 2009)

Thu, Dec 3 Listen
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...

SOF EXTRA (audio) | Unedited Interview with Arnold Eisen

Thu, Dec 3 Listen
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.

Presence in the Wild (November 26, 2009)

Thu, Nov 26 Listen
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."

SOF EXTRA (audio) | Unedited Interview with Kate Braestrup

Thu, Nov 26 Listen
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.

Learning, Doing, Being - A New Science of Education (November 19, 2009)

Thu, Nov 19 Listen
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.

SOF EXTRA (audio) | Unedited Interview with Adele Diamond

Thu, Nov 19 Listen
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.

The "Happiest" Man in the World - Meeting Matthieu Ricard (November 12, 200

Thu, Nov 12 Listen
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."

SOF SPECIAL (audio) | The Fall of the Wall, JFK's Assassination, and Two Bi

Mon, Nov 9 Listen
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.

The Freelance Monotheism of Karen Armstrong (November 5, 2009)

Thu, Nov 5 Listen
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.

Stem Cells, Untold Stories (October 29, 2009)

Thu, Oct 29 Listen
Using stem cells, Doris Taylor brought the heart of a dead animal back to life and might one day revolutionize human organ transplantation. She takes us beyond lightning rod issues and into an unfolding frontier where science is learning how stem cells work reparatively in every body at every age.

SOF EXTRA (audio) | Unedited Interview with Doris Taylor

Thu, Oct 29 Listen
In this SOF Unheard Cut, Krista speaks with Doris Taylor, the director of the Center for Cardiovascular Repair at the University of Minnesota. They speak about the science of stem cells and their regenerative/reparative potential, and the ethics surrounding such work. This entire, unedited interview is included in the program, "Stem Cells, Untold Stories." Here's your chance to observe the editorial process and let us know what you think.

Jaraslov Pelikan and The Need for Creeds (October 15, 2009)

Thu, Oct 22 Listen
For many modern Americans, the very idea of reciting an unchanging creed, composed centuries ago, is troublesome. But, the late Jaroslav Pelikan was a scholar who devoted his life to exploring the vitality of ancient theology and creeds. He insisted that even modern pluralists need strong statements of belief. We revisit Krista's 2003 conversation with him, as they discuss the history and nature of creeds, and how a fixed creed can be reconciled with an honest, intellectual faith that...

Curiosity Over Assumptions - Interreligiosity Meets a New Generation (Octob

Thu, Oct 15 Listen
We shine a light on two young leaders of a new generation of grassroots Muslim-Jewish encounter in Los Angeles. They're innovating templates of practical relationship that work with reality, acknowledge questions and conflict, yet resolve not to be enemies -- whatever the political future of the Middle East may hold.

The Power of Eckhart Tolle's Now (October 8, 2009)

Thu, Oct 8 Listen
One of today's most influential spiritual teachers shares his youthful experience of depression and despair -- 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" -- 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.

Language and Meaning - an Ojibwe Story (October 1, 2009)

Thu, Oct 1 Listen
Novelist and translator David Treuer is helping to compile the first practical grammar of the Ojibwe language. He describes an unfolding experience of how language forms what makes us human. Some memories and realities, he has found, can only be carried forward in time by Ojibwe.

Living Islam (September 24, 2009)

Thu, Sep 24 Listen
Nine Muslims, in their own words, reveal a creative convergence of Islamic spirituality and American identity that is unfolding, largely unnoticed, in the United States. A lawyer turned playwright, a teacher who's a lesbian, a retired federal prosecutor -- all giving shape to the nature and meaning of Muslim identity, and sharing how tricky it can be to unravel Islamic religious tradition from the many cultural traditions.

Day 29, Revealing Ramadan: Kari Ansari - Waiting for One More Ramadan

Sat, Sep 19 Listen
Our 29th voice is an American-born woman who says that her conversion to Islam has made her a better feminist. She is editor-in-chief of "America's Muslim Family Magazine" and lives with her husband and four children in suburban Chicago.

Revealing Ramadan: Saeed Purcell - The Last Ten Days

Fri, Sep 18 Listen
Our 28th voice in this series is a man who converted to Islam more than 15 years ago. Saeed Purcell "passed through" other faiths before becoming a Muslim. The turning point is when he read Malcolm X's autobiography, which led him to read the Qur'an. He recollects one of his first Ramadans, when he spent the last ten days alone in a mosque praying and fasting and spiritually cleansing himself.

The Inner Landscape of Beauty (September 17, 2009)

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The Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue was beloved for his book Anam Cara, Gaelic for "soul friend," and for his insistence on beauty as a human calling and a defining aspect of God. In one of his last interviews before his death in 2008, he articulated a Celtic imagination about how the material and the spiritual, the visible and the invisible worlds intertwine in human experience.

Revealing Ramadan: Sakina Al-Amin - Sharing Qur'an and Samosas

Thu, Sep 17 Listen
The 27th voice in this series is a young African-American woman who recently graduated from the University of Michigan. For the first nine years of her life, she was raised in a idyllic Muslim village nestled into the mountains of New Mexico, just north of Los Alamos. She shares two stories: one about celebrating Ramadan under the stars of the Southwest and the other of breaking their fast with three strangers at a dollar store.

Revealing Ramadan: Mary Hope Schwoebel - My Work Reflects My Beliefs

Wed, Sep 16 Listen
Our 26th voice in this series was raised Presbyterian in Oxford, Mississippi and later moved to Philadelphia. But, with the social justice movements of the 1960's, her parents and she grew more secular. While in college, she began reading feminist authors, including a leading Muslim scholar on the veil, and a Somali man who embodied these principles. She later converted and is now a teacher and educator of peace conflict studies in Africa.

Revealing Ramadan: Miles Davis - A Father's Impact

Tue, Sep 15 Listen
Our 25th voice grew up in inner-city Philadelphia and is now a professor at Shenandoah University in Leesburg, Virginia. Through the formative influence of his father, Islam provided the framework to escape the drugs and crime of most of his childhood friends. One of his first Ramadan celebrations also allowed him to see the many colors of Muslims he worshipped with. And now, decades later, his daughter is teaching him new things about faith during Islam's holiest month.

Revealing Ramadan: Hilarie Clement - A First Year Alone in Dubai

Mon, Sep 14 Listen
On this 24th day of Ramadan, a teacher who grew up in Syracuse, New York and now lives in Chicago with her family. She recalls celebrating one of her first Ramadans, while teaching third-graders in Dubai, and how "scared" she was at first and how "horrible" her first day of fasting was. Like most other things in Islam, she says, it takes time to learn how to be a practicing Muslim.

Revealing Ramadan: Eli Smart - Ramadan in Dearborn

Sun, Sep 13 Listen
The 23rd voice in this series, Eli Smart, grew up in California and converted to Islam in his early 20s. Now 37, he lives in Michigan -- along with his mother and family -- and says that Dearborn''s centralized Muslim community gives him a sense of what it's like living in a Muslim country during Ramadan.

Revealing Ramadan: Ilana Alezzeh - Singing in a Car

Sat, Sep 12 Listen
Our 22nd voice in this series is Ilana Alezzeh, a student at Smith College in Massachusetts. Growing up in California, Texas, and Virginia, she talks about spending Ramadan with a family rich in religious diversity, and driving while singing Jewish and Christmas songs during Ramadan.

Revealing Ramadan: Anisa Abd el Fattah - Laughter and Tears

Fri, Sep 11 Listen
Our 21st voice on this 11th of September is Anisa Abd el Fattah. She is an African-American woman from the Midwest who was raised in a family of Baptist ministers and converted to Islam 20 years ago. She's the founder of the National Association of Muslim American Women, and tells two Ramadan stories about an iftar faux pas and the beautiful recitation of her 7-year-old son.

Revealing Ramadan - The Radio Hour (September 10, 2009)

Thu, Sep 10 Listen
14 Muslims, in their own words, speak about the delights and gravity of Islam's holiest month. Through vivid memories and light-hearted musings, they reveal the richness of Ramadan -- as a period of intimacy, and of parties; of getting up when the world is quiet for breakfast and prayers with one's family; of breaking the fast every day after nightfall in celebration and prayers with friends and strangers.

Revealing Ramadan: Muna Jondy - After Faith, It's Character

Thu, Sep 10 Listen
Muna Jondy is the 20th voice in this series. She's an immigration attorney who runs her own private practice in Michigan. Muna, who was born in the U.S., is one of nine children of immigrant parents. She says the simplicity of her faith streamlines her life, but that the society around her can make it difficult to raiser her children in an Islamic manner -- instilling values of kindness, consideration, and community.

Hussein Rashid: The Night of Power, and Imperfection

Wed, Sep 9 Listen
The 19th voice in this series is Hussein Rashid, an Ismaili Shi'ah Muslim and professor at Hofstra University in New York. He recounts one of his favorite vigils of Ramadan, The Night of Power, and recites one of his favorite passages from the Quran, The Verse of Light.

Revealing Ramadan: Naazish Yarkhan - Celebrating Eid in the U.S. and India

Tue, Sep 8 Listen
Our 18th voice is Naazish Yarkhan, a writer and editor who grew up in Bombay, India and now lives in suburban Chicago. She tells the story of celebrating Eids in her native country and how much more joyous it is now in the U.S.

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