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On Being with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] John Lewis 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

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

An extraordinary conversation with the late congressman John Lewis, taped in Montgomery, Alabama, during a pilgrimage 50 years after the March on Washington. It offers a rare look inside his wisdom, the civil rights leaders’ spiritual confrontation within themselves, and the intricate art of nonviolence as “love in action.”

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:04.3

the spiritual foundation for a loving world.

0:07.1

Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding principle and animating force

0:11.7

for our lives.

0:13.1

A powerful love that helps us live in sacred relationship with ourselves, others, and

0:17.8

the natural world.

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Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.

0:22.2

I'm Christa Tippett and this is my 2013 Unedited Conversation with the late Civil Rights

0:28.3

Legend Congressman John Lewis.

0:31.0

There is a shorter, produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.

0:35.3

Sorry.

0:36.3

All right.

0:38.3

Where's the music?

0:42.3

Can we turn the music off?

0:44.3

Okay.

0:45.6

I think we want to just begin.

0:48.3

I don't know if people will wander in.

0:49.9

I know this is an unstructured time of the program, but what an honor.

0:54.6

And so delighted that you've made the time for this.

0:57.3

We will be turning this into an hour of radio, I think around Easter time.

1:01.4

That's what we're thinking.

1:03.2

Thank you.

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