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On Being with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Jean Vanier 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

4.710.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

A philosopher and Catholic social innovator, Jean Vanier is one of the great elders in our world today. The L’Arche movement, which he founded, centers around people with mental disabilities. The dozens of L’Arche communities around the world have become places of pilgrimage and are transformative for those involved and for the world around them. He has devoted his life to the practical application of Christianity’s most paradoxical teachings — that there’s power in humility, strength in weakness, and light in the darkness of human existence. Jean Vanier is a philosopher and the founder of L’Arche. He lives full-time in the original community in Trosly-Breuil, France. He’s also the recipient of the 2015 Templeton Prize. His books include Befriending the Stranger, An Ark for the Poor, and A Cry is Heard: My Path to Peace. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Jean Vanier — The Wisdom of Tenderness.” Find more at onbeing.org.

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0:00.0

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

0:04.4

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

0:10.2

principle and animating force for our lives, a powerful love that helps us live in sacred

0:15.2

relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world. Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.

0:22.7

I'm Christa Tippett and this is On Being's Unheard Cut. Up next, my unedited conversation

0:28.5

with philosopher and social innovator Jean-Vanier. There is a shorter, produced version of this wherever

0:35.0

you get your podcasts. So we've created a makeshift recording studio, as you can see. And this is a

0:44.4

radio show, but because it's the 21st century, it's also a website and we will do video and...

0:51.9

So it's a website that means that it will come up on the web. Well, we'll have on the website,

0:56.1

people can hear our conversation, but they can also watch it. So try to...

1:00.8

On a website? Yes, it's going to be video taping it and taking pictures.

1:09.4

So I've known about large for years. I have a Master's of Divinity and I think it was when I was

1:17.2

studying theology that I started to read you and Henry now and then we did in the early years of

1:23.5

this show, we did what we called a radio pilgrimage to the Clinton community, the Clinton Iowa community.

1:31.3

So you know a little bit? We do, we kind of... It's very important. And in fact, we've put that

1:39.2

program on the air every year, I think, four or five times. Yes, and you can't turn on.

1:46.8

Your voice is in there also. We have some tape from when you got the Dignitas Humaana Award

1:53.2

at Saint John College. You were there? I was there. I was there. Yeah. So Joanne Horseman...

2:00.8

I don't think we did meet. You know, there were members of large communities there and I spent time

2:06.9

with some of them and Joanne Horseman became a friend when we were in Clinton. But I don't,

2:11.7

I watched you speak, but I don't think we met then. So...

2:16.0

I'm John Henry. Would you like some headphones?

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