By Krista Tippett
“The discourse of our universal existence inclines in the direction of depression. In my box of journalism, the place we presume to write down the 1st draft of background, we summon our inner most serious capacities for investigating what's insufficient, corrupt, catastrophic, and failing. The ‘news’ is outlined because the outstanding occasions of the day, however it is mostly translated because the terribly poor occasions of the day. And in an immersive 24/7 information cycle, we internalize the deluge of undesirable information because the norm—the actual fact of who we're and what we’re up opposed to as a species. But my paintings has proven me that religious geniuses of the standard are in all places. they're within the margins and don't have publicists. they're lower than the radar, that is broken.”
Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and nationwide Humanities Medalist Krista Tippett has interviewed the main remarkable voices interpreting the good questions of which means for our time. the guts of her paintings on her nationwide public radio application and podcast, On Being, has been to polish a gentle on humans whose insights kindle in us a feeling of ask yourself and braveness. Scientists in quite a few fields; theologians from an array of faiths; poets, activists, and so on have all opened themselves as much as Tippett's compassionate but looking out conversation.
In Becoming Wise, Tippett distills the insights she has gleaned from this luminous dialog in its many dimensions right into a coherent narrative trip, over the years and from brain to brain. The e-book is a grasp classification in residing, curated via Tippett and observed by way of a delightfully ecumenical dream workforce of educating college.
The open questions and demanding situations of our time are intimate and civilizational by surprise, Tippett says – definitions of whilst existence starts off and whilst demise occurs, of the that means of group and relations and id, of our relations to know-how and during expertise. The knowledge we search emerges during the uncooked fabrics of the standard. And the long-lasting query of what it ability to be human has now develop into inextricable from the query of who we're to one another.
This publication deals a grounded and fiercely hopeful imaginative and prescient of humanity for this century – of non-public development but in addition renewed public existence and human religious evolution. It insists at the danger of a standard lifestyles for this century marked by means of resilience and redemption, with attractiveness as a middle ethical price and civility and love as muscular perform. Krista Tippett's excellent gift, in her paintings and in Becoming Wise, is to prevent reductive simplifications yet nonetheless locate the golden threads that weave humans and concepts jointly right into a shimmering braid.
One robust universal denominator of the teachings imparted to Tippett is the present of presence, of the pleasure of engagement with lifestyles for its personal sake, now not as a way to an finish. yet presence doesn't suggest passivity or popularity of the established order. certainly Tippett and her lecturers are humans whose paintings meets, and infrequently drives, strong forces of switch alive on the earth at the present time. after all, maybe the best blessing conveyed by way of the teachings of non secular genius Tippett harvests in Becoming Wise is the power to fulfill the area the place it truly is, after which to make it larger.
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They have all contributed to the fabric of my thoughts and my being in the world, and to whatever wisdom I am able to muster. CONTENTS Also by Krista Tippett Title Page Copyright Dedication Author’s Note ONE INTRODUCTION: The Age of Us TWO WORDS: The Poetry of Creatures Audio: The author in conversation with Elizabeth Alexander (0:39) Audio: The author in conversation with Elizabeth Alexander (3:36) Audio: The author in conversation with Rachel Naomi Remen (7:00) Audio: The author in conversation with Frances Kissling (7:27) Audio: The author in conversation with Ellen Davis (8:50) Audio: The author in conversation with Calvin DeWitt (1:00) Audio: The author in conversation with Calvin DeWitt (2:47) Audio: The author in conversation with Marie Howe (3:28) Audio: The author in conversation with John Paul Lederach (7:02) Audio: The author in conversation with Ann Hamilton (3:45) Audio: The author in conversation with Vincent Harding (9:50) Audio: The author in conversation with Walter Brueggemann (6:33) THREE FLESH: The Body’s Grace Audio: The author in conversation with Jon Kabat-Zinn (3:19) Audio: The author in conversation with Dan Barber (1:07) Audio: The author in conversation with Dan Barber (3:41) Audio: The author in conversation with Matthew Sanford (1:45) Audio: The author in conversation with Matthew Sanford (3:44) Audio: The author in conversation with John O’Donohue (1:07) Audio: The author in conversation with John O’Donohue (3:15) Audio: The author in conversation with Jean Vanier (7:33) Audio: The author in conversation with Bessel van der Kolk (7:23) Audio: The author in conversation with Ann Hamilton (5:14) Audio: The author in conversation with Parker Palmer (6:33) Audio: The author in conversation with Eve Ensler (6:18) Audio: The author in conversation with Joanna Macy (7:03) FOUR LOVE: A Few Things I’ve Learned Audio: The author in conversation with John Lewis (4:09) Audio: The author in conversation with john powell (11:51) Audio: The author in conversation with Sister Simone Campbell (0:57) Audio: The author in conversation with Sister Simone Campbell (10:46) Audio: The author in conversation with Xavier Le Pichon (0:58) Audio: The author in conversation with Paul Elie (0:41) Audio: The author in conversation with Elizabeth Alexander (9:01) Audio: The author in conversation with Xavier Le Pichon (4:10) Audio: The author in conversation with Eve Ensler (4:52) Audio: The author in conversation with Marie Howe (6:09) Audio: The author in conversation with Kate Braestrup (9:13) Audio: The author in conversation with john powell (5:00) Audio: The author in conversation with Vincent Harding (9:29) FIVE FAITH: The Evolution Audio: The author in conversation with Robert Coles (1:03) Audio: The author in conversation with Robert Coles (3:40) Audio: The author in conversation with Nathan Schneider (0:51) Audio: The author in conversation with Nathan Schneider (7:34) Audio: The author in conversation with Shane Claiborne (2:25) Audio: The author in conversation with Shane Claiborne (4:32) Audio: The author in conversation with Kate Braestrup (2:28) Audio: The author in conversation with Brian Greene (3:47) Audio: The author in conversation with Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (7:53) Audio: The author in conversation with Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (0:47) Audio: The author in conversation with Nathan Schneider (1:45) Audio: The author in conversation with Pico Iyer (8:44) Audio: The author in conversation with Arthur Zajonc (6:26) Audio: The author in conversation with Richard Rodriguez (8:23) Audio: The author in conversation with Brother Guy Consolmagno and Father George Coyne (7:30) Audio: The author in conversation with Margaret Wertheim (10:47) Audio: The author in conversation with Reza Aslan (7:58) Audio: The author in conversation with Sylvia Boorstein (8:53) Audio: The author in conversation with Shane Claiborne (5:42) Audio: The author in conversation with Christian Wiman (9:27) SIX HOPE: Reimagined Audio: The author in conversation with Vincent Harding (0:58) Audio: The author in conversation with David Sloan Wilson (1:31) Audio: The author in conversation with David Sloan Wilson (3:42) Audio: The author in conversation with Andrew Revkin (4:01) Audio: The author in conversation with Myrtle Thompson and Wayne Curtis (0:51) Audio: The author in conversation with Myrtle Thompson and Wayne Curtis (2:03) Audio: The author in conversation with Brené Brown (0:43) Audio: The author in conversation with Brené Brown (5:52) Audio: The author in conversation with Andrew Zolli (3:03) Audio: The author in conversation with Maria Popova (0:52) Audio: The author in conversation with Maria Popova (8:05) Conversation Partners, 2003–2015 Index DELUXE CONTENTS Audio: The author in conversation with Elizabeth Alexander (0:39) Audio: The author in conversation with Elizabeth Alexander (3:36) Audio: The author in conversation with Rachel Naomi Remen (7:00) Audio: The author in conversation with Frances Kissling (7:27) Audio: The author in conversation with Ellen Davis (8:50) Audio: The author in conversation with Calvin DeWitt (1:00) Audio: The author in conversation with Calvin DeWitt (2:47) Audio: The author in conversation with Marie Howe (3:28) Audio: The author in conversation with John Paul Lederach (7:02) Audio: The author in conversation with Ann Hamilton (3:45) Audio: The author in conversation with Vincent Harding (9:50) Audio: The author in conversation with Walter Brueggemann (6:33) Audio: The author in conversation with Jon Kabat-Zinn (3:19) Audio: The author in conversation with Dan Barber (1:07) Audio: The author in conversation with Dan Barber (3:41) Audio: The author in conversation with Matthew Sanford (1:45) Audio: The author in conversation with Matthew Sanford (3:44) Audio: The author in conversation with John O’Donohue (1:07) Audio: The author in conversation with John O’Donohue (3:15) Audio: The author in conversation with Jean Vanier (7:33) Audio: The author in conversation with Bessel van der Kolk (7:23) Audio: The author in conversation with Ann Hamilton (5:14) Audio: The author in conversation with Parker Palmer (6:33) Audio: The author in conversation with Eve Ensler (6:18) Audio: The author in conversation with Joanna Macy (7:03) Audio: The author in conversation with John Lewis (4:09) Audio: The author in conversation with john powell (11:51) Audio: The author in conversation with Sister Simone Campbell (0:57) Audio: The author in conversation with Sister Simone Campbell (10:46) Audio: The author in conversation with Xavier Le Pichon (0:58) Audio: The author in conversation with Paul Elie (0:41) Audio: The author in conversation with Elizabeth Alexander (9:01) Audio: The author in conversation with Xavier Le Pichon (4:10) Audio: The author in conversation with Eve Ensler (4:52) Audio: The author in conversation with Marie Howe (6:09) Audio: The author in conversation with Kate Braestrup (9:13) Audio: The author in conversation with john powell (5:00) Audio: The author in conversation with Vincent Harding (9:29) Audio: The author in conversation with Robert Coles (1:03) Audio: The author in conversation with Robert Coles (3:40) Audio: The author in conversation with Nathan Schneider (0:51) Audio: The author in conversation with Nathan Schneider (7:34) Audio: The author in conversation with Shane Claiborne (2:25) Audio: The author in conversation with Shane Claiborne (4:32) Audio: The author in conversation with Kate Braestrup (2:28) Audio: The author in conversation with Brian Greene (3:47) Audio: The author in conversation with Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (7:53) Audio: The author in conversation with Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (0:47) Audio: The author in conversation with Nathan Schneider (1:45) Audio: The author in conversation with Pico Iyer (8:44) Audio: The author in conversation with Arthur Zajonc (6:26) Audio: The author in conversation with Richard Rodriguez (8:23) Audio: The author in conversation with Brother Guy Consolmagno and Father George Coyne (7:30) Audio: The author in conversation with Margaret Wertheim (10:47) Audio: The author in conversation with Reza Aslan (7:58) Audio: The author in conversation with Sylvia Boorstein (8:53) Audio: The author in conversation with Shane Claiborne (5:42) Audio: The author in conversation with Christian Wiman (9:27) Audio: The author in conversation with Vincent Harding (0:58) Audio: The author in conversation with David Sloan Wilson (1:31) Audio: The author in conversation with David Sloan Wilson (3:42) Audio: The author in conversation with Andrew Revkin (4:01) Audio: The author in conversation with Myrtle Thompson and Wayne Curtis (0:51) Audio: The author in conversation with Myrtle Thompson and Wayne Curtis (2:03) Audio: The author in conversation with Brené Brown (0:43) Audio: The author in conversation with Brené Brown (5:52) Audio: The author in conversation with Andrew Zolli (3:03) Audio: The author in conversation with Maria Popova (0:52) Audio: The author in conversation with Maria Popova (8:05) ONE INTRODUCTION The Age of Us I’m a person who listens for a living.
This daunting and wondrous century is throwing open basic questions the twentieth century thought it had answered. Our questions are intimate and civilizational all at once—definitions of when life begins and when death happens; of the meaning of marriage and family and identity; of our relationship to the natural world; of our relationship to technology and our relationships through technology. The Internet in its infancy is upending the nature of making and leading and learning and belonging.
I have heard endless variations on this theme—the battle with illness that saves the life that follows; the childhood pain that leads to vocation; the disability that opens into wholeness and a presence to the hidden wholeness of others. You have your own stories, the dramatic and more ordinary moments where what has gone wrong becomes an opening to more of yourself and part of your gift to the world. This is the beginning of wisdom. And what is true for individuals is true for peoples. Our problems are not more harrowing than the ravaging depressions and wars of a century ago.
