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On Being with Krista Tippett

Living the Questions: When no question seems big enough

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

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

4.710.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

With our colleague Rev. Lucas Johnson, Krista talks through the question of what questions matter for this moment. Can anyone use the word “we”? And how to begin walking forward? Living the Questions is an occasional On Being segment where Krista muses on questions from our listening community. Submit your own at ltq@onbeing.org.

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0:00.0

Well, hello again.

0:02.6

Hi.

0:03.6

We started recording and then we...

0:07.2

But yeah, we're living in a kind of rearranged world in every way right now, including how

0:16.2

you and I are speaking to each other.

0:20.1

Yeah.

0:23.1

So you know, this living the questions thing is about not being scripted and it's about

0:33.0

honoring questions, especially the questions we can't answer that it would be actually

0:43.2

in a front to the questions themselves and what they...

0:46.3

The reality that they convey to posit an answer or an opinion.

0:55.6

And so we decided to...

1:01.5

You are my beloved and esteemed colleague and you are an African-American man and you

1:11.7

sat at the feet of Vincent Arding and have learned from some of our great elders and

1:20.9

more in Ferguson and you've been in many, many places for which...

1:24.9

And in which what's happening now in American cities is in other American cities too is

1:32.3

more familiar.

1:34.7

And of course there's nothing new that's part of the problem.

1:38.2

There's nothing new.

1:39.7

There's a revealing maybe and maybe a new light being shown.

1:47.5

But it's something coming to the surface again that's been there.

1:51.1

So when we've been having editorial conversations this all morning and we've been interacting

1:56.1

with people online and in our audience and our listening community and really kind of coming

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