Krista Tippett — Remembering Forward

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2007

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Before a live audience at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, Krista reads from her book, “Speaking of Faith.” She traces the intersection of human experience and religious ideas in her own life, just as she asks her guests to do each week. Krista reflects on her adventure of conversation across the world’s traditions — and on the whole story of religion in human life, beyond the headlines of violence.

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0:00.0	I'm Kate Moose, today remembering forward, our host Christa Tipett's appearance before
0:10.1	a live audience at the Fitzgerald Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota.
0:14.3	She'll read from her book, Speaking of Faith, Why Religion Matters, and How to Talk About
0:19.1	It, and share reflections on her own intellectual and intellectual adventures.
0:24.9	This book is a chronicle of a change of mind and of a discipline of listening that keeps
0:30.6	my mind and my spirit stretching.
0:34.7	There are places in human experience that politics cannot analyze or address, and they are
0:42.2	among our raw, essential, heartbreaking, and life-giving realities.
0:51.2	This is Speaking of Faith. Stay with us.
1:00.4	I'm Kate Moose, producer of Speaking of Faith. This hour, an opportunity to hear our host
1:05.4	Christa Tipett reading from her book and speaking before a live audience about her spiritual
1:10.5	genealogy and the intellectual journey behind this weekly radio program.
1:18.0	From American public media, this is Speaking of Faith, public radio's conversation about
1:23.5	religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas.
1:29.1	Today, remembering forward, Christa Tipett on Speaking of Faith.
1:39.2	Christa Tipett was born in Oklahoma on the night John F. Kennedy was elected president,
1:44.0	portentious beginnings for the granddaughter of a Southern Baptist minister.
1:48.7	Her childhood was defined by the tragedies and excesses of the 60s.
1:53.4	In the 1980s, Christa Tipett found herself individed Berlin as a journalist and then a
1:59.0	diplomat at the heart of the Cold War when the nuclear clock was ticking its fastest.
2:05.9	No one then could have imagined the collapse of the Soviet Empire with a whimper just a
2:11.4	few years later.
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