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On Being with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] john a. powell 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

🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

“Race is a little bit like gravity,” john powell says: experienced by all, understood by few. He is a refreshing, redemptive thinker who counsels all kinds of people and projects on the front lines of our present racial longings. Race is relational, he reminds us. It’s as much about whiteness as about color. He takes new learnings from the science of the brain as forms of everyday power. “We don’t have to imagine doing things one at a time,” he says. “It’s not, ‘how do we get there?’ It’s, ‘how do we live?’” This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “john a. powell — Opening to the Question of Belonging.” Find more at onbeing.org.

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0:00.0

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

0:06.2

and how movie watching can make for big, deep, fun conversation.

0:10.8

And now she's turned this passion of hers into on-bearing studios new podcast. This movie changed me.

0:16.9

I'm really proud of it. There are new episodes every other Tuesday.

0:21.2

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,

0:28.4

you're already ahead. This is a fabulous audio experience. Great thoughts, laughter, a few tears,

0:34.9

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

0:40.4

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

0:46.6

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

0:52.4

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

0:58.3

selves, others, and the natural world. Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.

1:04.5

I'm Christa Tippett and this is On Being's Unheard Cut. You're listening to my unedited conversation

1:10.2

with John Powell. Listen to our produced show with him wherever you find your podcasts and, as always, at on being.org.

1:18.4

Hello, hello.

1:23.1

Hello.

1:25.7

Excuse me. Hi, my name is Trent Gillis, I'm the Chief Content Officer and Executive Editor of On Being.

1:31.4

Thank you for being here. It's a beautiful morning. Thank goodness.

1:35.6

So glad everybody isn't tracking in, but it's no. How many of you know of On Being or listen to the show?

1:44.1

Well, that's a good participation rate. Well, thank you for coming here. If you don't know much

1:49.5

about On Being, about two years ago, a little less than two years ago, when we broke off,

1:53.7

it started on a non-profit organization. And part of the reason behind that and the impulse

1:59.2

was that we wanted to extend our journalistic work and take it in meaning for ways into the community.

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