Krista Tippett

Recently I spoke to a class of college students — by way of Skype — in southern Minnesota. It was a media and religion course at a Lutheran liberal arts college. They talked about their dismay with the narrow and often-inflammatory way religion is discussed, especially in the context of...

Walter Brueggemann is a kind of theological rock star. His name has been synonymous with the phrase "prophetic imagination" for three decades of preachers and Christian teachers. Students in all kinds of seminaries read him. And they are captivated by the man as much as his ideas, though most never...

I've had a sense of déjà vu as the discussion about Mormonism has heated up as of late, with exactly the same dynamic occurring in the last presidential election season. But the discussion this time is more serious.

It's not just the fact that two Mormons — Mitt Romney...

Years ago, when my children were young, we danced around the house to Bobby McFerrin's Hush album. I've followed his adventures with magnificent orchestras and with the jazz great Chick Corea. I've heard his setting of the 23rd Psalm, addressed to a female deity, played in churches. And I've watched...

There are some lines I love of the 20th Century German theologian and political martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer. They emerged in the clarity, and self-awareness, that arise on the edges of survival:

"Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these...

"Mindful Eating in the 21st Century" with chef Dan Barber and Krista Tippett
Congregation Beth-El Zedeck
Indianapolis, Indiana

As part of the Indianapolis Spirit & Place Festival, Krista Tippett interviews chef Dan Barber, a game-changing voice of the farm-to-table movement, who is using his New York...

Albert Einstein's famous equation, E=mc², remains difficult for me to grasp fully. But I feel I have come to understand something of the man -- his expansive spirit, his relentless curiosity, and his reverence for the beauty and order of nature and thought. I was daunted as I began, but...

In the beginning, I sought out people with an overt passion to reconcile science and religion in their discipline and in their person. Sir John Polkinghorne is one of the most prominent of these globally--a Cambridge quantum physicist who also became a Cambridge theologian in midlife and has...

The science-religion "debate" is an abstraction, and a distraction. It isn't true to the deep nature of science, or of religion, or to the history of interplay between them. These are convictions I'm left with after a cumulative conversation that began a decade ago. And after spending the spring traveling...

I was happy to be reminded that Lady Bird Johnson, who died this month, started the campaign of "beautification" that helped bring Americans to stop littering. This memory is useful not just for the story it tells about her, but the story that it tells about us. Once upon a...

In his book The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical, Shane Claiborne quotes the Danish philosopher/theologian Soren Kierkegaard: "The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the...