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On Being with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Paul Elie with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

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

4.710.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2014

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Paul Elie is a senior fellow with the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and the director of the American Pilgrimage Project. His books include “The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage” and “Reinventing Bach.” This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Paul Elie — Faith Fired by Literature.” Find more at onbeing.org.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is On Being's Unheard Cut.

0:02.1

I'm Christa Tippett, you're listening to my unedited conversation with Paul Eli.

0:07.0

He's a writer and a senior fellow with Georgetown University's Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace

0:12.0

and World Affairs.

0:13.7

You can download the MP3 of my produced conversation with Paul Eli at onbeing.org.

0:19.5

Hello.

0:20.5

Hello, Paul.

0:22.5

Paul?

0:23.5

Is that Christa?

0:24.5

Yes, it is.

0:25.5

Hi, nice to talk to you.

0:27.5

You too.

0:29.1

You can just...

0:29.9

Catch your breath and just...

0:31.7

OK, I arrived just a minute ago.

0:34.4

That's OK.

0:35.4

The assistant to Roger Strasse over 40 years.

0:40.0

Roger just died last month.

0:41.9

But his assistant went to London from a memorial service and then went to Europe and came back

0:48.2

and I saw for the first time in a month yesterday and she said...

0:53.4

You wouldn't believe I was making my bed.

0:55.5

And there was that woman you introduced me to, Christa Tippett.

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