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The glory that coexist in human life, right alongside our weird propensity to choose what

is not good for us.

The difference between a place of sheer loss and a sacred space for mourning.

Grace, as something muscular, emits the muck in the mess of reality.

Repentance as a communal walk towards a different future.

These are some of the places of musing and sweeping perspective, and raw wisdom, a conversation

with Serene Jones takes me and you.

She is a theologian of trauma.

She is president of the premier American place, which gave us public theology in the 20th

century, that is now being utterly rewritten for the 21st.

And after hearing this, you'll never think in the same way again about Whitty Guthrie,

or what a Christian upbringing in Oklahoma might be, or the theologian reformer, Don Calvin.

I'm Christa Tippett, and this is on being.

Serene Jones is the 16th president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and

the first woman in this role.

Full disclosure, she is a friend with whom I share an unlikely convergence of life trajectories.

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