Krista Tippett
Krista Tippett
Krista Tippettis an American journalist, author, and entrepreneur. She created and hosts the public radio program and podcast On Being. In 2014, Tippett was awarded the National Humanities Medal by U.S. President Barack Obama...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth9 November 1960
CountryUnited States of America
space interviews virtue
Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space,
thinking two-sides ideas
I dont accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.
buddhist hurt real
Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think its about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.
ifs cant
If God is God, we cant be afraid of what we can learn.
calm toddler structure
Structure is something that calms our nature; we know this of toddlers.
kindness everyday virtue
Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.
tolerance ascent virtue
Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.
school europe perspective
I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.
art way language
In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry
home gone world
How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings.
reality silence doe
Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.
spiritual peace compassion
Compassion is a spiritual technology.
doctrine opinion persons
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
our-world names voice
For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to see and hear them, as well, to understand the whole story of religion in our world.