Tracks by Krista Tippett

Foundations 4: Calling and Wholeness

Foundations 3: Taking a Long View of Time, and Becoming “Critical Yeast”

Foundations 2: Living the Questions

Foundations 1: Seeing the Generative Story of Our Time

Introducing On Being Foundations

A Listening Ritual for this Fall: Poetry Unbound

A Season of Emergence with Krista

Before Newness Arrives …

BONUS: An On Being Listening Party — Celebrating 20 Years

adrienne maree brown — “We are in a time of new suns”

[Unedited] adrienne maree brown with Krista Tippett

Ocean Vuong – A Life Worthy of Our Breath

[Unedited] Ocean Vuong with Krista Tippett

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson — What If We Get This Right?

[Unedited] Ayana Elizabeth Johnson with Krista Tippett

Rachel Naomi Remen – How We Live With Loss

[Unedited] Rachel Naomi Remen with Krista Tippett

David Whyte — Seeking Language Large Enough

"Everything is Waiting for You" by David Whyte

"Working Together" by David Whyte

"Sweet Darkness" by David Whyte

[Unedited] David Whyte with Krista Tippett

BONUS: A Defining Moment from Krista — Celebrating Our First 20 Years

Kimberley Wilson — Whole Body Mental Health

[Unedited] Kimberley Wilson with Krista Tippett

Robin Wall Kimmerer — The Intelligence of Plants

[Unedited] Robin Wall Kimmerer with Krista Tippett

Sylvia Boorstein – What We Nurture

A Lovingkindness Meditation with Sylvia Boorstein

[Unedited] Sylvia Boorstein with Krista Tippett

Pádraig Ó Tuama — “This fantastic argument of being alive”

[Unedited] Pádraig Ó Tuama with Krista Tippett

Ai-jen Poo and Tarana Burke — The Future of Hope 5

Avivah Zornberg — Human Becoming, Between Biblical Lines

[Unedited] Avivah Zornberg with Krista Tippett

Eugene Peterson — Answering God

[Unedited] Eugene Peterson with Krista Tippett

Mary Oliver — “I got saved by the beauty of the world.”

[Unedited] Mary Oliver with Krista Tippett

BONUS: An Invitation from Pádraig and Krista

Drew Lanham – Pathfinding Through the Improbable

[Unedited] Drew Lanham with Krista Tippett

Kate DiCamillo — For the Eight-Year-Old in You

[Unedited] Kate DiCamillo with Krista Tippett

Mario Livio — Mathematics, Mystery, and the Universe

[Unedited] Mario Livio with Krista Tippett

Colette Pichon Battle — “Placed Here, In This Calling”

[Unedited] Colette Pichon Battle with Krista Tippett

“Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower” by Rainer Maria Rilke

Gal Beckerman — How Newness Enters the World

[Unedited] Gal Beckerman with Krista Tippett

Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman — Love Your Enemies? (Really?)

[Unedited] Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman with Krista Tippett

John O'Donohue – The Inner Landscape of Beauty

[Unedited] John O'Donohue with Krista Tippett

Trabian Shorters – A Cognitive Skill to Magnify Humanity

[Unedited] Trabian Shorters with Krista Tippett

Remembering Thich Nhat Hanh, Brother Thay

[Unedited] Thich Nhat Hanh with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Larry Ward with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Cheri Maples with Krista Tippett

Michael Pollan and Katherine May - The Future of Hope 4

Oliver Burkeman – Time Management for Mortals

[Unedited] Oliver Burkeman with Krista Tippett

Befriend Your Body: A Compassionate Body Scan

Remembering Desmond Tutu

[Unedited] Desmond Tutu with Krista Tippett

Gordon Hempton — Silence and the Presence of Everything

[Unedited] Gordon Hempton with Krista Tippett

Jeff Chu — A Life of Holy Curiosity (In Friendship with Rachel Held Evans)

[Unedited] Jeff Chu with Krista Tippett

Jane Hirshfield – The Fullness of Things

[Unedited] Jane Hirshfield with Krista Tippett

Katherine May – How ‘Wintering’ Replenishes

[Unedited] Katherine May with Krista Tippett

Vivek Murthy and Richard Davidson – The Future of Well-being

[Unedited] Vivek Murthy and Richard Davidson with Krista Tippett

Jane Goodall – What It Means to Be Human

[Unedited] Jane Goodall with Krista Tippett

Pico Iyer and Elizabeth Gilbert – The Future of Hope 3

Bessel van der Kolk – Trauma, the Body, and 2021

[Unedited] Bessel van der Kolk with Krista Tippett

Bryan Stevenson – Finding the Courage for What's Redemptive

[Unedited] Bryan Stevenson with Krista Tippett

Pádraig Ó Tuama and Marilyn Nelson – “So let us pick up the stones over which we stumble, friends, and build altars”

[Unedited] Pádraig Ó Tuama and Marilyn Nelson with Krista Tippett

Katharine Hayhoe – "Our future is still in our hands"

[Unedited] Katharine Hayhoe with Krista Tippett

Darnell Moore and dream hampton — The Future of Hope 2

Mike Rose – The Deepest Meanings of Intelligence and Vocation

[Unedited] Mike Rose with Krista Tippett

Priya Parker — Remaking Gathering: Entering the Mess, Crossing the Thresholds

[Unedited] Priya Parker with Krista Tippett

Stephen Batchelor – Finding Ease in Aloneness

[Unedited] Stephen Batchelor with Krista Tippett

Kate Bowler and Wajahat Ali — The Future of Hope

Suzanne Simard — Forests Are Wired For Wisdom

[Unedited] Suzanne Simard with Krista Tippett

Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn – Truth, Beauty, Banjo

[Unedited] Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn with Krista Tippett

Luis Alberto Urrea — Borders Are Liminal Spaces

[Unedited] Luis Alberto Urrea with Krista Tippett

Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem — Towards a Framework for Repair

[Unedited] Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem with Krista Tippett

Kevin Kling — The Losses We Grow Into

Sharon Salzberg — The Healing Is In The Return

[Unedited] Sharon Salzberg with Krista Tippett

Jen Bailey — What We Inherit & What We Send Forth

[Unedited] Jen Bailey with Krista Tippett

Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach — ‘Courage is the presence of fear, and going anyway.’

[Unedited] Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach with Krista Tippett

Brian Greene — This Tiny Slice of Eternity

[Unedited] Brian Greene with Krista Tippett – 2021 Conversation

Esther Perel – The Erotic Is an Antidote to Death

[Unedited] Esther Perel with Krista Tippett

Jason Reynolds — Imagination and Fortitude

[Unedited] Jason Reynolds with Krista Tippett

Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows — ‘What a world you’ve got inside you.’

[Unedited] Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows with Krista Tippett

Alex Elle — Self-Care as Generational Healing

[Unedited] Alex Elle with Liliana Maria Percy Ruiz

Nicholas Christakis — How We’re Wired for Goodness

[Unedited] Nicholas Christakis with Krista Tippett

Robert Macfarlane — The Worlds Beneath Our Feet

[Unedited] Robert Macfarlane with Krista Tippett

Tracy K. Smith and Michael Kleber-Diggs — ‘History is upon us... its hand against our back.’

[Unedited] Tracy K. Smith and Michael Kleber-Diggs with Krista Tippett

Jill Tarter — 'It Takes a Cosmos to Make a Human'

[Unedited] Jill Tarter with Krista Tippett

Joy Harjo — The Whole of Time

[Extended] Joy Harjo with Krista Tippett

Daniel Kahneman – Why We Contradict Ourselves and Confound Each Other

[Unedited] Daniel Kahneman with Krista Tippett

Living the Questions — We’ve been enmeshed with our technologies. Tech Shabbat for everyone?

Hanif Abdurraqib — Moments of Shared Witnessing

[Unedited] Hanif Abdurraqib with Pádraig Ó Tuama

Layli Long Soldier — The Freedom of Real Apologies

[Unedited] Layli Long Soldier with Krista Tippett

Resmaa Menakem — ‘Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence’

[Unedited] Resmaa Menakem with Krista Tippett

Bryan Doerries — "You are not alone across time."

[Unedited] Bryan Doerries with Krista Tippett

Serene Jones — Grace in a Fractured World

[Unedited] Serene Jones with Krista Tippett

Michael Longley — The Vitality of Ordinary Things

[Unedited] Michael Longley with Krista Tippett

Christine Runyan — What’s Happening in Our Nervous Systems?

[Unedited] Christine Runyan with Krista Tippett

Naomi Shihab Nye — “Before You Know Kindness As the Deepest Thing Inside...”

[Unedited] Naomi Shihab Nye with Krista Tippett

The Question “Who Am I,” and Movies We Love

Ariel Burger — Be a Blessing

[Extended] Ariel Burger with Krista Tippett

Alain de Botton — The True Hard Work of Love and Relationships

[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett

Living the Questions — What's our communal equivalent of rubbing each other's feet?

The Soul in Depression

[Unedited] Andrew Solomon with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Parker Palmer with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Anita Barrows with Krista Tippett

Drew Lanham reads his poem “Love for a Song”

Drew Lanham reads from his book.

Katherine May Reads from 'Wintering'

Living the Questions: A Civil Rights Elder on Exhaustion and Rest, Spiritual Practice, and the Necessity of Loving Community

Nikki Giovanni — 'We Go Forward With a Sanity and a Love'

[Unedited] Nicki Giovanni with Krista Tippett

Frank Wilczek — Beauty as a Compass for Truth

[Unedited] Frank Wilczek with Krista Tippett

Mary Catherine Bateson — Living as an Improvisational Art

[Unedited] Mary Catherine Bateson with Krista Tippett

Gaelynn Lea’s Voice and Violin

[Unedited] Gaelynn Lea with Krista Tippett

Jennifer Michael Hecht — 'We Believe Each Other Into Being'

[Unedited] Jennifer Michael Hecht with Krista Tippett

Bishop Michael Curry & Dr. Russell Moore — Spiritual Bridge People

[Unedited] Bishop Michael Curry & Dr. Russell Moore with Krista Tippett

Agustín Fuentes — This Species Moment

[Unedited] Agustín Fuentes with Krista Tippett

Richard Blanco — How to Love a Country

[Unedited] Richard Blanco with Krista Tippett

Remembering Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

[Unedited] Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks with Krista Tippett

Karen Murphy — The Long View, II: On Who We Can Become

[Unedited] Karen Murphy with Krista Tippett

John Biewen — The Long View, I: On Being White

[Unedited] John Biewen with Krista Tippett

Rev. Otis Moss III — The Sound of the Genuine: Traversing 2020 with 'the Mystic of the Movement' Howard Thurman

[Unedited] Rev. Otis Moss III with Krista Tippett

Arlie Hochschild – The Deep Stories of Our Time

[Unedited] Arlie Hochschild with Krista Tippett

Jericho Brown – Small Truths and Other Surprises

[Unedited] Jericho Brown with Krista Tippett

From Poetry Unbound: Ada Limón — “Wonder Woman”

‘Poetry Unbound’ Returns, With Wisdom For Living Now

Craig Minowa & Cloud Cult — Music As Medicine

[Unedited] Craig Minowa and Cloud Cult with Krista Tippett

angel Kyodo williams – The World Is Our Field of Practice

Living the Questions: Why 2020 hasn’t taken Rev. angel by surprise

[Unedited] angel Kyodo williams with Krista Tippett

Michael McCarthy — Nature, Joy, and Human Becoming

[Unedited] Michael McCarthy with Krista Tippett

Dario Robleto — Sculptor of Time and Loss

[Unedited] Dario Robleto with Krista Tippett

Marilyn Nelson — Communal Pondering in a Noisy World

[Unedited] Marilyn Nelson with Krista Tippett

Remembering John Lewis

[Unedited] John Lewis with Krista Tippett

Living the Questions: It’s really settling in now, the losses large and small

Pauline Boss — Navigating Loss Without Closure

[Unedited] Pauline Boss with Krista Tippett

Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem: In Conversation

[Unedited] Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem with Krista Tippett

Vincent Harding — Is America Possible?

[Unedited] Vincent Harding with Krista Tippett

Isabel Wilkerson — This History is Long; This History Is Deep

[Unedited] Isabel Wilkerson with Krista Tippett

Eula Biss — Talking About Whiteness

[Unedited] Eula Biss with Krista Tippett

Race and Healing: A Body Practice

Living the Questions: When no question seems big enough

Gregory Orr — Shaping Grief With Language

[Unedited] Gregory Orr with Krista Tippett

Jacqueline Novogratz — Towards a Moral Revolution

[Unedited] Jacqueline Novogratz with Krista Tippett 2020

Samar Jarrah, Wajahat Ali, Sahar Ullah, et al. — Revealing Ramadan

Devendra Banhart — ‘When Things Fall Apart’

[Unedited] Devendra Banhart with Krista Tippett

Living the Questions: How can we balance connection with disconnection?

Wendell Berry and Ellen Davis — The Art of Being Creatures

[Unedited] Ellen Davis with Krista Tippett

Living the Questions: How can I find my footing in a shifting world?

David Steindl-Rast — How to Be Grateful in Every Moment (But Not for Everything)

[Unedited] Brother David Steindl-Rast with Krista Tippett

A Poem in Gratitude for Health Care Workers

Ai-jen Poo — This Is Our (Caring) Revolution

[Unedited] Ai-jen Poo with Krista Tippett

Living the Questions: At home, frustrated and stressed — is 'just being' worthy right now?

Ross Gay — Tending Joy and Practicing Delight

[Unedited] Ross Gay with Krista Tippett

Rebecca Solnit — Falling Together

[Unedited] Rebecca Solnit with Krista Tippett

Carlo Rovelli — All Reality Is Interaction

[Unedited] Carlo Rovelli with Krista Tippett

George Coyne and Guy Consolmagno — Asteroids, Stars, and the Love of God

[Unedited] George Coyne and Guy Consolmagno with Krista Tippett

Sandra Cisneros — A House of Her Own

[Unedited] Sandra Cisneros with Krista Tippett

Ezra Klein — How We Walked Into This and How We Can Walk Out

[Unedited] Ezra Klein with Krista Tippett

Alison Gopnik — The Evolutionary Power of Children and Teenagers

[Unedited] Alison Gopnik with Krista Tippett

Ruby Sales — Where Does it Hurt?

[Unedited] Ruby Sales with Krista Tippett

Joe Henry — Welcoming Flies at the Picnic

[Unedited] Joe Henry with Krista Tippett

Brené Brown — Strong Back, Soft Front, Wild Heart

[Unedited] Brené Brown with Krista Tippett

Bessel van der Kolk — How Trauma Lodges in the Body

Greg Boyle — The Calling of Delight: Gangs, Service, and Kinship

[Unedited] Greg Boyle with Krista Tippett

David Whyte — The Conversational Nature of Reality

"Close" by David Whyte read by Krista Tippett

[Unedited] David Whyte with Krista Tippett

Marilynne Robinson and Marcelo Gleiser — The Mystery We Are

[Unedited] Marilynne Robinson and Marcelo Gleiser with Krista Tippett

Joy Ladin — Finding a Home in Yourself

[Unedited] Joy Ladin with Krista Tippett

America Ferrera and John Paul Lederach — The Ingredients of Social Courage

[Unedited] America Ferrera and John Paul Lederach with Krista Tippett

Jennifer Bailey and Lennon Flowers — An Invitation to Brave Space

[Unedited] Jennifer Bailey and Lennon Flowers with Krista Tippett

David Treuer — Language Carries More Than Words

[Unedited] David Treuer with Krista Tippett

Derek Black and Matthew Stevenson — Befriending Radical Disagreement

[Unedited] Derek Black and Matthew Stevenson with Krista Tippett

Imani Perry — More Beautiful

[Unedited] Imani Perry with Krista Tippett - 2019

Erik Vance — The Drugs Inside Your Head

[Unedited] Erik Vance with Krista Tippett

Ta-Nehisi Coates — Imagining a New America

[Unedited] Ta-Nehisi Coates with Krista Tippett

‘This Movie Changed Me’ Is Back

Katy Payne — In the Presence of Elephants and Whales

[Unedited] Katy Payne with Krista Tippett

Shane Claiborne and Omar Saif Ghobash — Called and Conflicted

[Unedited] Shane Claiborne and Omar Saif Ghobash with Krista Tippett

Darnell Moore — Self-Reflection and Social Evolution

[Unedited] Darnell Moore with Krista Tippett

Amichai Lau-Lavie — First Aid for Spiritual Seekers

[Unedited] Amichai Lau-Lavie with Krista Tippett

Jonathan Rowson — Integrating Our Souls, Systems, and Society

[Unedited] Jonathan Rowson with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Annette Gordon-Reed and Titus Kaphar with Krista Tippett

Annette Gordon-Reed and Titus Kaphar — Are We Actually Citizens Here?

Indigo Girls — No Separation: On Music and Transcendence

[Unedited] Amy Ray and Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Jerry Colonna with Krista Tippett

Jerry Colonna — Can You Really Bring Your Whole Self to Work?

Richard Rohr — Growing Up Men

[Unedited] Richard Rohr with Krista Tippett

Abraham Verghese and Denise Pope — How Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

[Unedited] Denise Pope and Abraham Verghese with Krista Tippett

Rami Nashashibi and Lucas Johnson — Community Organizing as a Spiritual Practice

[Unedited] Rami Nashashibi and Lucas Johnson with Krista Tippett

Atul Gawande — What Matters in the End

[Unedited] Atul Gawande with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Joanna Macy with Krista Tippett

Joanna Macy — A Wild Love for the World

Wangari Maathai — Marching with Trees

[Unedited] Wangari Maathai with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Whitney Battle-Baptiste with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Elizabeth Alexander with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Maya Angelou with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Arnold Rampersad with Krista Tippett

Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Alexander, and Arnold Rampersad — W.E.B. Du Bois and the American Soul

‘Becoming Wise’ With Tools for the Art of Living

Lawrence Kushner — Kabbalah and Everyday Mysticism

[Unedited] Lawrence Kushner with Krista Tippett

Sharon Olds — Odes to the *****

[Unedited] Sharon Olds with Krista Tippett

Jean Vanier — The Wisdom of Tenderness

[Unedited] Jean Vanier with Krista Tippett

Teju Cole — Sitting Together in the Dark

[Unedited] Teju Cole with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Richard Davidson with Krista Tippett

Richard Davidson — A Neuroscientist on Love and Learning

[Unedited] Maria Popova with Krista Tippett

Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age

Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach — Un-becoming

Claudia Rankine — How Can I Say This So We Can Stay in This Car Together?

[Unedited] Claudia Rankine with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Maira Kalman with Krista Tippett