[Unedited] Pádraig Ó Tuama with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Pádraig Ó Tuama is a friend, teacher, and colleague to the work of On Being. But before that was true, Krista took a revelatory trip to meet him at his home in Northern Ireland, a place that has known sectarianism and violent fracture and has evolved, not to perfection, yet to new life and once unimaginable repair and relationship. Our whole world screams of fracture, more now than when Krista sat with Pádraig in 2016. This conversation is a gentle, welcoming landing for pondering and befriending hard realities we are given. As the global educator Karen Murphy, another friend of On Being and of Pádraig, once said to Krista: “Let’s have the humility and the generosity to step back and learn from these places that have had the courage to look at themselves and look at where they’ve been and try to forge a new path with something that resembles ‘together’ … Right now we should be taking these stories and these examples and these places and filling our pockets and our lungs and our hearts and our minds with them and learning deeply.” And that’s what this hour with Pádraig invites.

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0:00.0	On being with Christa Tippett is supported in part by the Fetzer Institute, helping build the
0:04.8	Spiritual Foundation for a loving world. Fetzer's sharing spiritual heritage report asks,
0:10.8	how will we reimagine our spiritual infrastructure for today's time? Learn more at Fetzer.org.
0:18.1	I'm Christa Tippett. Up next, my unedited conversation with the wonderful Padrik Otuma,
0:24.3	poet, theologian, conflict resolution practitioner, and the host of Poetry Unbound. There is, as always,
0:31.9	a shorter produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.
0:38.0	Well, let's say this is the definition of hostile audience.
0:44.0	And even so, that's a big joke. I'm really nervous because I think I'm nervous because
0:51.0	Padrik and I, it's not that we've spent thousands of hours together, but we've spent at this point
0:59.5	a good amount of time together in different places and very rich time. And we've had some
1:04.8	wonderful conversations and your book is so rich and beautiful. And I'm just very aware of how
1:13.6	many great conversations we could have and that my line of questioning will, in some sense,
1:20.8	fall very short and be inadequate, but it will be what it will be for today.
1:26.0	This is a blazer for giving us Christa.
1:29.6	Okay, all right, I'm repenting and I'm sorry.
1:36.1	Yes, so we're so happy to be here at Korymila, all of us from on being
1:43.2	and had such a beautiful couple of days in Belfast
1:46.8	that have really, you know, really the reason we came is to interview you. So here we are.
1:57.6	And so, Padrik, I know that you will not be shocked by my first question.
2:04.9	And I thought about whether I could ask it in a very original way and I just thought there's
2:09.9	no point with you. So how would you begin to reflect on the religious or spiritual background
2:17.9	of your life? Let's think about this yesterday because I had a little link that you were asking
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