So our amazing executive producer, Lily Percy, has taught me so much about movies across the years

and how movie watching can make for big, deep, fun conversation. And now she's turned this passion

of hers into on-bearing studios new podcast. This movie changed me. I'm really proud of it.

There are new episodes every other Tuesday. You don't have to have watched the movies in advance,

but if you love You've Got Mail or The Nightmare Before Christmas or Star Wars, you're already ahead.

This is a fabulous audio experience. Great thoughts, laughter, a few tears, and immersive movie

music and moments. If you haven't listened yet, it's time.

Support for On Being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the

spiritual foundation for a loving world. Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding

principle and animating force for our lives. A powerful love that helps us live in sacred

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Many of my critics would be quite happy for me to stop calling myself a Buddhist.

And even some of those who like my work feel that the Buddhism gets in the way,

but I disagree profoundly with that. The rootedness in tradition is central to me,

and I see Buddhist tradition, I suspect, like other traditions also, that's not something which

is static and fixed and somehow preserved and formaldehyde, but it is something that is alive.

Stephen Bachelors' secular Buddhism speaks to the mystery and vitality of spiritual life in

every form. For him, secularism opens to doubt and questioning as a radical basis for spiritual life.

Above all, Stephen Bachelors understands Buddhism without transcendent beliefs like karma or reincarnation

to become something urgent to do not to believe in. I'm Christa Tippet and this is on being.

Stephen Bachelors is the author of numerous books, including The Faith to Doubt, Confession of a

Buddhist Atheist, and most recently, Secular Buddhism, imagining the Dharma in an uncertain world.

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