On Being with Krista Tippett

Jason Reynolds and Kessley Janvier — On Being Young In America

David Bornstein — On Our Lives with the News

Katsi Cook — "Women are the First Environment"

Justin Vernon — Being Bon Iver

A New Season of On Being

Remembering Nikki Giovanni - ‘We Go Forward With a Sanity and a Love’

Joan Baez — "This Gift of a Voice"

adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life

“The End of Poetry” by Ada Limón

Atul Gawande — On Mortality and Meaning

“Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” by Elizabeth Alexander

Luis Alberto Urrea — On Our Belonging to Each Other

Ross Gay — On the Insistence of Joy

Janine Benyus and Azita Ardakani Walton — On Nature's Wisdom for Humanity

Befriend Your Body: A Compassionate Body Scan

Christine Runyan — On Healing Our Distressed Nervous Systems

“Joy is the Justice (We Give Ourselves)” by J. Drew Lanham

Lyndsey Stonebridge and Lucas Johnson — On Love, Politics, and Violence (Channeling Hannah Arendt)

New From Poetry Unbound: A Series on Conflict and the Human Condition

Colette Pichon Battle — On Knowing What We're Called To

Kate DiCamillo — On Nurturing Capacious Hearts

Wisdom, Solace, and Courage for 2024

Nick Cave — Loss, Yearning, Transcendence

A Word from Krista

Sara Hendren — Our Bodies, Aliveness, and the Built World

Christiana Figueres — Ecological Hope, and Spiritual Evolution

Clint Smith — What We Know in the "Marrow of Our Bones"

“Dance Party” by Clint Smith

“Ode to Those First Fifteen Minutes After the Kids Are Finally Asleep” by Clint Smith

[Extended] Clint Smith with Krista Tippett

Three Skills for Staying Calm, Sane, and Open in a Chaotic World | Krista interviewed by Dan Harris for Ten Percent Happier

Latanya Sweeney — On Shaping Technology to Human Purpose

[Unedited] Latanya Sweeney with Krista Tippett

Matthew Sanford – The Body's Grace

Baratunde Thurston — How to Be a Social Creative

Reid Hoffman — AI, and What It Means to Be (More) Human

Kerry Washington — Acting as a Devotional Practice

Kate Bowler — On Being in a Body

Kate Bowler — A Blessing for the Life You Didn't Choose

A New Season of On Being Is Coming

"Love is still the only revenge. It grows each time the earth is set on fire."

From Poetry Unbound: Benjamin Gucciardi — The Rungs

Patronage and Love: On Being's Becoming

Vivek Murthy — To Be a Healer

Vivek Murthy — A Meditation for Moments of Despair, and To Feel Less Alone

[Unedited] Vivek Murthy with Krista Tippett

Barbara Brown Taylor — “This Hunger for Holiness”

[Unedited] Barbara Brown Taylor with Krista Tippett

Ruth Wilson Gilmore — “Where life is precious, life is precious.”

Janine Benyus — Biomimicry, an Operating Manual for Earthlings

Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative

Isabel Wilkerson — "We all know in our bones that things are harder than they have to be."

James Bridle — The Intelligence Singing All Around Us

[Unedited] James Bridle with Krista Tippett

Nick Offerman — Working with Wood, and the Meaning of Life

Ada Limón — “To Be Made Whole”

“Dead Stars” by Ada Limón

“The Quiet Machine” by Ada Limón

“A New National Anthem” by Ada Limón

Amanda Ripley — Stepping out of "the zombie dance" we're in, and into "good conflict" that is, in fact, life-giving

Dacher Keltner — The Thrilling New Science of Awe

Emergence: On Being Is Back!

December musings from Krista, plus: an invitation — and next season NEWS

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

J. Drew Lanham – Pathfinding Through the Improbable

[Unedited] J. 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] Cheri Maples with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Larry Ward 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 – How Trauma Lodges in the Body, Revisited

[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

The Future of Hope — Trailer

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

Ocean Vuong – A Life Worthy of Our Breath

[Unedited] Ocean Vuong 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] Parker Palmer with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Anita Barrows with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Andrew Solomon with Krista Tippett

J. Drew Lanham reads his poem “Love for a Song”

J. Drew Lanham reads from his book.

Drew Lanham — "I Worship Every Bird that I See"

[Unedited] Drew Lanham with Krista Tippett

Katherine May Reads from 'Wintering'

Katherine May — How 'Wintering' Replenishes

[Unedited] Katherine May with Krista Tippett

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

Bryan Stevenson — Love is the Motive

[Unedited] Bryan Stevenson 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

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe by Elizabeth Alexander

The Facts of Life by Pádraig Ó Tuama

This is what was bequeathed us by Gregory Orr

America the Beautiful Again by Richard Blanco

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

[Unedited] John Biewen with Krista Tippett

Sharon Salzberg — Shelter for the Heart and Mind

[Unedited] Sharon Salzberg 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

Mary Oliver – Listening to the World

[Unedited] Mary Oliver with Krista Tippett

Michael McCarthy — Nature, Joy, and Human Becoming

[Unedited] Michael McCarthy with Krista Tippett

Robin Wall Kimmerer — The Intelligence of Plants

[Unedited] Robin Wall Kimmerer with Krista Tippett

Dario Robleto — Sculptor of Time and Loss

[Unedited] Dario Robleto with Krista Tippett

Jane Goodall on What it Means to Be Human

[Unedited] Jane Goodall 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

Jason Reynolds — Fortifying Imagination

[Unedited] Jason Reynolds 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

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

[Unedited] Resmaa Menakem with Krista Tippett

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

Ocean Vuong — A Life Worthy of Our Breath

[Unedited] Ocean Vuong with Krista Tippett

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

Stephen Batchelor — Finding Ease in Aloneness

[Unedited] Stephen Batchelor with Krista Tippett

Wendell Berry and Ellen Davis — The Art of Being Creatures

“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry

“How to Be a Poet (to remind myself)” by Wendell Berry

“Sabbaths – 1985, I” by Wendell Berry

“Sabbaths – 1979, IV” by Wendell Berry

“The Man Born to Farming” by Wendell Berry

“The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer” by Wendell Berry

[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

Nicholas Christakis — How We’re Wired for Goodness

[Unedited] Nicholas Christakis with Krista Tippett

Jill Tarter — It Takes a Cosmos to Make a Human

[Unedited] Jill Tarter 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

Pádraig Ó Tuama and Marilyn Nelson — A New Imagination of Prayer

Introducing ‘Poetry Unbound’

[Unedited] Pádraig Ó Tuama and Marilyn Nelson 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