October 2010
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WatchWhite Light, Big City
by Kate Moos, executive producer
This year, Lincoln Center announced that its fall festival for the first time would be produced around a unifying concept: that of “spiritual expression and the illumination of our large, interior universes,” according to Jane Moss, Lincoln Center’s Vice President of Programming.
Last spring, as these ideas were taking...
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Understanding Happiness with the Dalai Lama, a...
by Shubha Bala, associate producer
On October 17 of this year, Krista led a lively conversation with four dynamic religious leaders: the His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori, and Seyyed Hossein Nasr on “Understanding and Promoting Happiness in Today’s Society.”
Trent and I sat in the media section of the Woodruff...
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“Violence pretty much forces a silence on people. When everyone sees a violent...”
– — Darius Rejali, from our show “The Long Shadow of Torture”
With new reports of detainee abuse in Iraq emanating from WikiLeaks, we’re going to broadcast/podcast an encore version of Krista’s interview with Rejali in the coming weeks. Rejali argues that, with the right...
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“There are many inventors whose personal life is just subsumed into their...”
– — Jane Smiley, from her interview with Gary Wolf in the November 2010 issue of Wired.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist discusses the protagonist of her new book titled The Man Who Invented the Computer, a biography on John Vincent Atanasoff. The quotation above is a helpful reminder that...
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Thinking of My Past Education and of Those to...
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The Dalai Lama and Compassion Science: A...
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
During our trip to Emory University this past October, we sat in on several conversations between the Dalai Lama and leading scientists. We tweeted some of our favorite comments and now are aggregating them into this transcript:
Excited to be able to tweet scientists (including R. Davidson + Frans de Waal) discussing the latest research on mindfulness with...
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“When Christians practice yoga, they must either deny the reality of what yoga...”
– — Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, from “The Subtle Body - Should Christians Practice Yoga?”
I happened upon this blog post by Dr. Mohler after reading this Seattle Times article by Janet Tu in which Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church,...
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“Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is...”
– —Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
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WatchLIVE Video: A Sold Out Event with the Dalai Lama. A Front Row Seat for You!
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
*UPDATE: Listen to our recording of this magnificent discussion (mp3, 113:52).
“Understanding and Promoting Happiness in Today’s Society” date: Sunday, October 17th, 2010 time: 1:30 p.m. EDT
» What do Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam teach us about the concept...
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“As Muslim parents, it seems like the choices we make raising children are more...”
– — Hanieh Razzagh, a new mother reflects on raising her daughter in this post from the Ink Paper Mosaic blog.
Parents of two young boys, my wife and I no longer live near our extended families. Although we are of European and Roman Catholic heritage, we have similar concerns about raising family in...
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WatchThe Gift of Brain Cancer
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
This TEDtalk by branding guru Stacey Kramer is three minutes long and inspirational in its brevity and its punch. Nobody wishes for adversity but sometimes it’s a profound teacher.
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We Americans Can Learn Something from the Chilean...
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
A satellite image shows the relief efforts to reach the trapped miners in the San Jose Mine in Copiapo, Chile. (credit: DigitalGlobe/Flickr)
Watching those miners emerge in a steel-cage projectile from the collapsed mine in Chile is miraculous. It’s risky business and it has been done with aplomb. What I’ve been struck with is the celebratory ...
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“Ten years later, it’s still tough. You never get away from it. It’s...”
– — U.S. Navy Supply Officer Robert Overturf
I had an NPR driveway moment yesterday listening to producer Matthew Ozug’s non-narrated piece featuring the voices of USS Cole crew members whose ship was bombed by al-Qaida 10 years ago today. I particularly like the pacing, and the use of music...
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“Writing a Torah, in general, energizes a community. It unifies people. It is not...”
– — Rabbi Moshe Druin, a sofer stam on the restoration of a 17th-century Torah scroll with an incredible history.
The Los Angeles Times has this hopeful story about Temple Ahavat Shalom’s restoration of a 300-year-old manuscript. The sacred scroll was first created for a small Jewish community...
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On Playing Soldier and Being a Soldier
by Trent...
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One Hundred Million Seeds of Porcelain...
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
Ai Weiwei holds porcelain seeds from his Unilever installation titled “Sunflower Seeds.” (photo: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s latest installation at the Tate Modern is an incredible feat: one hundred million hand-painted pieces of porcelain that resemble the shells of sunflower seeds. One finds oneself moved to...
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Richard Mouw: A Twitterscript with an Evangelical...
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
This coming week we will be releasing our latest show, which focuses on the topic of incivility in political, religious, and civic culture with one of the leading Evangelical Christian leaders in the United States today. On September 8, 2010, Krista interviewed Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary and a professor of Christian philosophy and...
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Encountering Strangeness from Different Directions
by Nancy Rosenbaum, producer
“I come across a person who isn’t just a stranger but maybe represents a strangeness to me that initially I might feel very alienated from that person. And then to think, this is a work of art by the God whom I worship — that God created that person. And it’s something like art appreciation. It doesn’t come easy. I’m kind of aesthetically...
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“Our humanity is not an attribute that we have received once and forever with our...”
– —Xavier Le Pichon
Thanks for reminding us of this powerful quotation from our interview with the great French geophysicist.
Trent Gilliss, senior editor
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The Convergence of Understanding Plate Tectonics...
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Esperanza Spalding Dazzles the Tiny Desk
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
I’ve been holding on to this performance for a few days now, keeping it in reserve specifically for a Friday morning or afternoon. And what better way to kick off the back stretch to the weekend than with the delightful intensity of jazz musician Esperanza Spalding. In this video, she captivates the room at National Public Radio with her intimate Tiny Desk...
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Parsing the Power of Bishop Eddie Long and the...
by Kate Moos, managing producer
Bishop Eddie Long (in white suit) embraces a friend in his first appearance before parishioners at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. (photo: John Amis/Getty Images)
Allegations that Bishop Eddie Long coerced four young men to have unwanted sexual contact have riveted the media. In his first appearance before his congregation of New Birth Missionary Baptist...
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Repeated Responses to Stem Cell Show Guest Is...
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
photo courtesy of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association
Oftentimes we hear from guests after a show has been released. But, it’s always by way of a direct email to one of our producers or to Krista herself. So, imagine my surprise this past Saturday when I saw this awfully gracious submission to our show on stem cells from the centering voice of...
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Autism and Being Human, Another Take
by Krista Tippett, host
Our show on autism with Paul Collins and Jennifer Elder remains one of my favorites. And I’ve been enjoying a wonderfully written and moving memoir by Emily Colson about life with her son Max, now 19. Dancing with Max: A Mother and Son Who Broke Free has a prologue and an epilogue written by Charles (Chuck) Colson. Colson, of course, served in the Nixon White House...
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Nicholas Kristof: A Twitterscript
by Anne Breckbill, associate web developer
On September 3, 2010, Krista interviewed New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof for our show “Journalism and Compassion.” Following is the complete behind-the-glass Twitterscript of that conversation:
Krista is interviewing NYT writer Nicholas Kristof right now: http://twitter.com/nickkristof We’ll be live tweeting for the next 90...
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WatchLeaving for a Promised Land, An Ex-Con’s New Life
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
Exodus is a story of longing and loneliness, redemption and new horizons. Diana Ortiz, a 45-year-old woman who was incarcerated for 22 years for second-degree murder, tells the story of her conviction, rehabilitation, and the need to show others released from prison the journey can start anew.
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“He trusts God to keep him safe. And I’m here just in case that...”
– —Religious Programs Specialist 2nd Class Philip Chute, a self-declared atheist who is charged with protecting Navy Chaplain Terry Moran, a Seventh-Day Adventist who is ministering to Marines in Afghanistan.
Michael M. Phillips’ Wall Street Journal article “A Chaplain and an Atheist Go...
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Watch“With Ears Wide Open” — Elizabeth Alexander Talks Poetry with E. Ethelbert Miller
by Nancy Rosenbaum, producer
One of my favorite moments in the video above occurs at around the 11-minute mark after Elizabeth Alexander recites “Praise Song for the Day,” the poem she penned for President Obama’s inauguration. In her recent interview with E. Ethelbert Miller (from...
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On Stem Cells and Untold Stories: When...
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Mennonites Unite Behind Largest Relief Sale
by Anne Breckbill, associate web developer
Hundreds attend the marquee event: the quilt auction. (photo: David Yoder)
The best — and perhaps quirkiest — aspects of being Mennonite were on display in northern Indiana last weekend. The Michiana MCC Relief Sale is an annual fundraising event for the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), a world-wide relief organization. The sale is part quilt...
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Joanna Macy: A Twitterscript
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
For nearly all of Krista’s interviews nowadays, we live-tweet (@softweets) the verbal gems and meaningful points of the conversation so that we can provide some type of real-time dialogue with our online friends. But, we realize many of you either don’t use Twitter or just simply miss our tweets because of the busy pace of a day at work or home so...
