On Being with Krista Tippett
Rásarupplýsingar
On Being with Krista Tippett
Wisdom to replenish and orient in a tender, tumultuous time to be alive. Spiritual inquiry, science, social healing, and poetry. Conversations to live by. With a 20-year archive featuring luminaries like Mary Oliver, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Desmond Tutu, each episode brings a new discovery about t...
Nýlegir þættir
977 þættir
Jane Goodall, In Memoriam — What It Means to Be Human
The great primatologist and humanitarian, Jane Goodall, died on October 1, 2025, at the age of 91. It is a joy and a comfort to revisit our last broad...
Joanna Macy, In Memoriam — Beauty and Wisdom and Courage (and Rilke) to Sustain Us
This rich, gorgeous conversation will fill your soul. The singular and beloved Joanna Macy died at home at the age of 96 on July 20, 2025. She has lef...
Ross Gay — Hope Portal, Episode 7
Ross Gay is a poet, community gardener, and teacher who brings another way of wisdom to the conviction that we have to know what we love and what deli...
Joy Harjo — The Hope Portal Ep. 6
Our teacher this time is the extraordinary Joy Harjo. She is a musician, a visual artist, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, and she’s also former...
Joanna Macy — Hope Portal, Episode 5
Our teacher and inspiration for this session is Joanna Macy. What she embodies is a wild love for the world and a fierce hope that rises irrepressible...
Ocean Vuong — Hope Portal, Episode 4
If hope is to be defining and forceful in the world we have to remake ahead of us, we must also speak hope into being. Ocean Vuong is a fascinating an...
Naomi Shihab Nye — Hope Portal, Episode 3
In these next few sessions, we investigate some orientations and ways of being that are companions to hope. If hope is a muscle that can be exercised...
Walter Brueggemann, In Memoriam - When the World We Have Trusted In Is Vanishing
The great Christian scholar of the biblical prophets died on June 5, 2025. Yet, in the lineage of the prophets who called humanity to face its hardest...
adrienne maree brown — Hope Portal, Episode 2
adrienne maree brown shines a light on an emerging ecosystem in our world over and against the drumbeat of what is fractured and breaking. She works w...
Krista Tippett — Hope Portal, Episode 1
Beginning today, and for the next six weeks in the On Being podcast feed and Substack, we’re opening a reflection/course experience curated by Krista...
Roberta Bondi — What is Prayer and How to Begin
Buried treasure from the On Being archive!
Krista writes of this conversation from the earliest pre-history of On Being:
In the years in...
Yochi Fisher and Loaay Wattad–On Seeing the Trauma of the Other
This episode emerged from a private gathering in The Hague in the fall of 2024 with a small group of people who live in Israel — both Jewish and Pales...
Jason Reynolds and Kessley Janvier — On Being Young In America
A heavy complexity is on the shoulders of the young of our species in these years — humans growing up in this time. At the same time, from the digita...
David Bornstein — On Our Lives with the News
A calming and helpful conversation for making sense of the very story of our time, and how that is coming to us and being powerfully shaped through me...
Katsi Cook — "Women are the First Environment"
Katsi Cook is a beacon in an array of quiet powerful worlds — a magnetic, joyous, loving presence. The public conversation we offer up here was part o...
Justin Vernon — Being Bon Iver
A sweet and searching conversation between Krista and the man behind Bon Iver at this year's On Air Fest, full of wisdom and revelation.
He is...
A New Season of On Being
On Being is back on April 16, with a special season tethered in the persistent beauty and courage of what it can mean to be human — six conversations...
Remembering Nikki Giovanni - ‘We Go Forward With a Sanity and a Love’
The delightful Nikki Giovanni died on Dec. 9. It is a joy and a solace to relisten to this beloved conversation she had with Krista in 2016 – to exper...
Joan Baez — "This Gift of a Voice"
She is known as the voice of a generation. The Queen of Folk. A legend. An icon, the one who sang “We Shall Overcome” alongside Martin Luther King Jr....
adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life
The wonderful civil rights elder Vincent Harding liked to look around the world for what he called "live human signposts" — human beings who embody wa...
“The End of Poetry” by Ada Limón
An impassioned plea, a yearning for connection — the poem U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón wrote when she says all language failed her. Take in Ada's read...
Atul Gawande — On Mortality and Meaning
We are strange creatures. It is hard for us to speak about, or let in, the reality of frailty and death — the elemental fact of mortality itself. In t...
“Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” by Elizabeth Alexander
Today, a poem with a poignant question to live: “...and are we not of interest to each other?” Carry Elizabeth Alexander’s reading of her poem “Ars Po...
Luis Alberto Urrea — On Our Belonging to Each Other
We humans have this drive to erect barriers between ourselves and others, Luis Alberto Urrea says, and yet this makes us a little crazy. He is an exub...
Ross Gay — On the Insistence of Joy
In our world of so much suffering, it can feel hard or wrong to invoke the word "joy." Yet joy has been one of the most insistent, recurrent rallying...
Janine Benyus and Azita Ardakani Walton — On Nature's Wisdom for Humanity
In this all-new episode, Krista engages biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus in a second, urgent conversation, alongside creative biomimicry practitioner...
Befriend Your Body: A Compassionate Body Scan
In a time of stress, uncertainty, and isolation, Christine Runyan turns our attention to what often evades our awareness — the response of our nervous...
Christine Runyan — On Healing Our Distressed Nervous Systems
The years of pandemic and lockdown are still working powerfully on us from the inside. But we have trouble acknowledging this, much less metabolizing...
“Joy is the Justice (We Give Ourselves)” by J. Drew Lanham
We are overjoyed to share this heart-stirring performance with you, which transpired when we invited the ornithologist/poet/former On Being guest J. D...
Lyndsey Stonebridge and Lucas Johnson — On Love, Politics, and Violence (Channeling Hannah Arendt)
Here is a stunning sentence for you, written by Lyndsey Stonebridge, our guest this hour, channeling the 20th-century political thinker and journalist...
New From Poetry Unbound: A Series on Conflict and the Human Condition
A taste of a special mini-season of Poetry Unbound — bringing contemplative curiosity and the life-nurturing tether of poetry to the very present matt...
Colette Pichon Battle — On Knowing What We're Called To
There is an ecological transformation unfolding in the places we love and come from. On a front edge of this reality, which will affect us all, Colett...
Kate DiCamillo — On Nurturing Capacious Hearts
In her writing, it is Kate DiCamillo's gift to make bearable the fact that joy and sorrow live so close, side by side, in life as it is (if not as we...
Nick Cave — Loss, Yearning, Transcendence
Here are some experiences to which Nick Cave gives voice and song: the "universal condition" of yearning, and of loss; a "spirituality of rigor"; and...
A Word from Krista
A little musing on this season, the spectacular finale headed your way — and ways to stay connected in the time ahead.
Subscribe to the The Paus...
Sara Hendren — Our Bodies, Aliveness, and the Built World
Our built world is designed around something called "normal," and yet every single one of our bodies is mysterious, and constantly adapting for better...
Christiana Figueres — Ecological Hope, and Spiritual Evolution
The ecological crisis we are standing before is at once civilizational and personal — intimately close to each of us in the places we love and inhabit...
Clint Smith — What We Know in the "Marrow of Our Bones"
This phrase recurs throughout Clint Smith's writing: "in the marrow of our bones." It is an example of how words can hold encrypted wisdom — in this c...
“Dance Party” by Clint Smith
Clint Smith reads his poem, “Dance Party.” This poem is featured in Clint’s On Being conversation with Krista, “What We Know in the ‘Marrow of Our Bon...
“Ode to Those First Fifteen Minutes After the Kids Are Finally Asleep” by Clint Smith
Clint Smith reads his poem, “Ode to Those First Fifteen Minutes After the Kids Are Finally Asleep.” This poem is featured in Clint’s On Being conversa...