October 2009
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“One of your colleagues had me in the papers with horns and a tail, red horns and...”
– —Pedro Martinez, speaking to reporters at Yankee Stadium the day before his debut as the starting pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 2 of the World Series.
Trent Gilliss, online editor
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A Humble Offering
by Nancy Rosenbaum, associate producer
(photo: Nancy Rosenbaum)
Last week, I traveled with Krista, Trent, and Mitch for a production trip to the Black Hills in South Dakota. We’ve been planning a program about the spiritual legacy of Sitting Bull for years. Finally the pieces of this production puzzle have started to come together.
After landing in Rapid City, we drove through the snowy...
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A First Rite of Passage
Colleen Scheck, producer
This is a personal entry, in the spirit of the “Your Voices, Your Stories” door we open to you each week. I hope my experience will prompt you to share your own stories and reflections.
I’m a melting pot of religious identity: a lapsed Catholic, sometimes agnostic theist, envious of Buddhists, awed naturalist, live-by-the-golden-rule spiritual seeker....
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Guggenheim Forum: Krista's Live Online Chat for... →
Date: 2pm EDT today Location: http://bit.ly/4d6OQ0
Krista will be moderating a live, one-hour chat for the Guggenheim Museum’s Forum called The Spiritual (Re)Turn — focusing on the role of spirituality in contemporary art. She will be joined by panelist Louis A. Ruprecht. Please join in and be part of what should be a lively conversation!
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Interfaith, Interreligious, Pluralism, Dialogue,...
Mitch Hanley, senior producer
We often struggle with crafting interesting or catchy titles for each new program. Sometimes we latch on to something one of our guests said in the interview, as was the case with our recent program, which may win the dubious honor of having the longest title: Curiosity Over Assumptions, Interreligiosity Meets a New Generation.
But, please do know that it was not...
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Live Interview with Ernie LaPointe, Great Grandson of Sitting Bull Trent Gilliss, online editor
UPDATE: In a delightful twist of events, I was able to set up a live video stream of Krista’s interview with Ernie LaPointe using his home wireless connection in the Black Hills of South Dakota. I also taped the conversation with a couple of HD cameras, and will do my best to produce this...
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2009 National Book Award Finalist, on Darwins'... →
Trent Gilliss, online editor
The finalists for this year’s National Book Awards have been announced. One of the books that intrigues me (yes, I’m a daddy with two boys) is Deborah Heiligman’s young people’s book titled Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith.
Reading Darwin’s transmutation notebooks and correspondence with family and colleagues — as well...
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“The traditional view of God the Creator is untenable now.”
– —Professor Ellen van Wolde, an Old Testament scholar at Radboud University in The Netherlands. She claims the first sentence of Genesis is not an accurate translation of the Hebrew verb “bara” in the context of the Bible and other creation stories from Mesopatamia.
Translations of the...
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Mohegan and "Auxiliary Language"
Andy Dayton, associate web producer
After we replayed our program with David Treuer last week, we received an interesting story from listener Stephanie Fielding in Uncasville, Connecticut. In the program, Treuer talks about his efforts to help sustain the Ojibwe language:
“What I really love about language revitalization, what is so key to it, is that it’s always been ours and...
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Hablando de fe con Krista Tippett
Colleen Scheck, Producer
About five months ago, we received an e-mail from the deputy editor of a small Spanish magazine, El Ciervo, admiring our work and requesting permission to translate and print some of our interviews. The editor described El Ciervo as a magazine similar to the U.S. Catholic journal Commonweal, but a little “less churchy.”
After working through the standard permissions...
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“Art ‘which is only a child of the age and cannot become a mother of the...”
– —Vasily Kandinsky, from Concerning the Spiritual in Art (translated by M.T.H. Sadler).
This is one of the quotes Krista is using in preparing for her role as moderator of The Guggenheim Museum’s online forum called “The Spiritual (Re)Turn” taking place this October. Kandinsky...
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“So when you give someone a name, you’re giving them part of your soul. And...”
– —David Treuer, an author and translator who spoke to Krista for our show, “Language and Meaning, an Ojibwe Story”
Trent Gilliss, online editor
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Does Dan Brown Represent?
Colleen Scheck, Producer
I’m intrigued by the wildfire surrounding Dan Brown’s new novel. Frugal people I know who detest buying hardcover books have already purchased The Lost Symbol, have finished reading it, and are now wondering what hairstyle Tom Hanks will sport in the movie version. Even our own host — among illness, travel, multiple interviews, and other production duties — already has...
