On Being with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Brené Brown with Krista Tippett

Brené Brown says our belonging to each other can’t be lost, but it can be forgotten. Her research has reminded the world in recent years of the uncomfortable, life-giving link between vulnerability an...

2 Jan 20201h 18min

Bessel van der Kolk — How Trauma Lodges in the Body

Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk is an innovator in treating the effects of overwhelming experiences. We call this “trauma” when we encounter it in life and news, and we tend to leap to address it by ...

26 Dec 201951min

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

Fr. Greg Boyle makes amazingly winsome connections between things like service and delight, compassion and awe. He landed as an idealistic young Jesuit in a gang-heavy neighborhood of Los Angeles thre...

19 Dec 201953min

[Unedited] Greg Boyle with Krista Tippett

19 Dec 20191h 18min

"Close" by David Whyte read by Krista Tippett

"Close" by David Whyte read by Krista TippettDavid Whyte is an associate fellow at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. His books include The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of...

12 Dec 20192min

"América" (parts IV-V) by Richard Blanco

Richard Blanco reads parts IV and V from his poem “América”. Excerpted from the On Being episode “Richard Blanco – How to Love a Country”. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com...

27 Nov 20192min

Marilynne Robinson and Marcelo Gleiser — The Mystery We Are

Novelist Marilynne Robinson and physicist Marcelo Gleiser are both passionate about the majesty of science, and they share a caution about what they call our modern “piety” toward science. They connec...

21 Nov 201951min