On Being

On Being is a spacious conversation — and an evolving media space — about the big questions at the centre of human life, from the boldest new science of the human brain to the most ancient traditions of the human spirit.

Krista envisioned a program that would draw out the intellectual and spiritual content of religion that should nourish our common life, but that is often obscured precisely when religion enters the news. Our sustained growth as a show has also been nurtured by a cultural shift that seeks conversation, shared life, and problem-solving within and across religious traditions and across categories of belief and non-belief. On Being has both responded and contributed to a growing acknowledgement that there are basic questions of meaning that pertain to the entire human experience.

From physics to parenting, from civil society to aging, from yoga to neuroscience, from urban renewal to farm to table food, from “The Last Quiet Places” to ocean exploration, from Desmond Tutu to Rosanne Cash, and from the Dalai Lama to Rumi - what we cover as "conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas" drives towards ancient, animating questions at the heart of the great traditions and beyond them: What does it mean to be human? What matters in a life? What matters in a death? How to love? How to be of service to each other and to the world?

We explore these questions in all the variety, richness, and complexity with which they find expression in contemporary lives. We pursue wisdom and moral imagination as much as knowledge; we esteem nuance and poetry as much as fact. Our guests as well as our radio listeners, podcasters, and readers span many traditions and the spectrum of devotion and agnosticism. We keep finding new ways to listen to them, and they keep teaching us where to go with this adventure.
TypeAudio
ExpressionPodcast
TopicDiscipleship/Ethics
AudienceAdults
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAmerican Public Media

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