Krista Tippett is creator and host of the groundbreaking public radio program and podcast, Speaking of Faith, and author of the book by the same name. A former diplomat with an M.Div. from Yale, Tippett is based at American Public Media in St. Paul, Minnesota.

A new model for journalism, "Speaking of Faith" is a weekly in-depth conversation about religion, meaning, and ethics heard on more than 200 radio stations in North America, Europe, and Asia. Tippett interviews religious thinkers - ordinary and erudite, unknown and famous - for their distinctive insights into the most important issues of our time - from war to ecology, from mental health to diplomacy, from gay marriage to business ethics. "Speaking of Faith" has defied the polarization that characterized much of public religious speech in recent years. Tippett and her guests illuminate and reframe hot-button issues and the difficult questions behind them.

Of Tippett's intellectual and spiritual memoir of her life and conversations, Stephen Prothero wrote, "Steering clear of the shrill proclamations of our culture wars' field generals, Speaking of Faith appeals instead to "the vast middle" of Americans who are desperate, in her view, for a detente of sorts between faith and fanaticism, science and religion, the Religious Right and the Secular Left."