[Unedited] Adam Gopnik with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

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

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2017

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

The wise and lyrical writer Adam Gopnik muses on the ironies of spiritual life in a secular age through the lens of his many fascinations — from parenting, to the arts, to Darwin. He touches on all these things in a conversation inspired by his foreword to “The Good Book,” in which novelists, essayists, and activists who are not known as religious thinkers write about their favorite biblical passages. Our ancestors acknowledged doubt while practicing faith, he says; we moderns are drawn to faith while practicing doubt. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Adam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing Faith.” Find more at onbeing.org.

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0:00.0	Through December and into the turn of the year, the on-bearing blog is offering a lovely
0:05.4	series of seasonal reflections.
0:07.8	Check in often to enjoy a nuanced and eclectic range of wisdom from our contributing writers,
0:13.5	and we're collecting them all at onbearing.org slash seasonal reflections.
0:19.8	Support for on-bearing with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build
0:23.9	the spiritual foundation for a loving world.
0:26.8	Other envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding principle and animating force
0:31.2	for our lives.
0:32.6	A powerful love that helps us live in sacred relationship with ourselves, others, and
0:37.3	the natural world.
0:38.8	Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.
0:42.1	I'm Christa Tippett, and this is on Beings Unheard Cut.
0:45.6	You're listening to my unedited conversation with Adam Gopnick.
0:49.6	I'm going to go into our produce show with him wherever you find your podcasts, and as
0:53.4	always, at onbearing.org.
0:57.7	So, Chris, are we okay?
0:59.7	And do we have a hard stop at 4.30?
1:03.0	I mean, we'll finish by then, but I just want to.
1:07.3	Okay.
1:08.3	Alright.
1:09.3	Okay.
1:10.3	Yeah, they said to me that we could go to a far.
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