The world is changing, and so is the nature of faith in modern life.

This radio show was conceived to explore that, and in the process we too were changed.

What began as speaking of faith became on being.

This hour at the end of a momentous decade, we listened and knew to voices and ideas

that tell the evolving story of meaning and religion in our time.

And we're now in a moment, encountering Islam, to new questions, 21st century,

ecologies and economies are raising about what it means to be human, and how we want to live.

From American public media, I'm Krista Tippett, today on Being, Evolving Faith.

One of the reasons that speaking of faith is such a slippery and a moving target

is because we're trying to talk about the stuff of which we are.

If you have a doctrine, a version of rationalism or a version of atheism,

that makes it so that you have to be worried about using the word mystery,

you've got yourself too constraining a doctrine.

If you really look at human experience, the truth is that we're all living a life of experiment

in every aspect of our lives.

I understand that to move close to God is to move close to everything that human beings have ever experienced.

That, of course, includes a lot of suffering as well as a lot of joy.

If I couldn't ask these animals that I like so much,

if there was anything equivalent to what we speak of as being faith,

I would love to do that.

We just don't know.

We just don't know.

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