Krista Tippett

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These are the same people, right? This is, I think, Krista Tippett, great radio podcast host, has this line.

There's some of these lines that I've heard in my life that just became such important frameworks for me for reporting.

She said to me in this interview we did a while ago, anger is what pain looks like in public.

how love can be practical, creative, and sustained as a social good, not merely a private good.

These are the powerful words from my friend and teacher Krista Tippett in her beautiful book entitled Wisdom.

It's really all about love.

And in today's episode, we will focus on the one Hebrew word that is all about love.

It's also about politics.

It's really about life.

So having started with Krista Tippett, I'd like to continue with another important quote from a modern-day prophet.

the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who left us with these powerful reminders all about love.

Thanks as well to Frederick Courtright of The Permissions Company.

Poetry Unbound is an independent, non-profit production of the On Being Project, founded and led by the magnificent Krista Tippett.

Poetry Unbound is made possible by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.

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Really? How so? Absolutely.

So what we're seeing is I think what Krista Tippett predicted, that basification.

Students don't like it when teachers use AI and teachers don't like it when students use AI.

And so it's just slop.

It's rooted in honest contact with our vulnerability.

I was listening a while back to Krista Tippett, who I love, and she described one man that she had been in touch with probably interviewed with, Matthew Sanford.

And he was paralyzed from the waist down from an accident that he had when he was 13 that killed his father and his sister.

As an adult, he's been just an outstanding being, doing really amazing work with veterans and others with disabilities.

Two years ago, but man, two years feels like a lifetime in some ways.

This is an episode that was titled Nurturing Our Minds, Shaping Our Reality with the great Krista Tippett.

It's really powerful to take note of how some themes are timeless and how some themes grow even more relevant with the passing of time.

Now, you may be curious, what is the theme? Naming Krista Tippett may give you a hint, but we're going to talk about faith in this episode.

And faith is one of those things that manages to be both universal and relevant for most of us walking the earth and yet deeply intimate and personal at the same time.

We're not looking at faith through a traditional religious lens in this conversation.

It feels risky to invite conversation about something that while being universal is also deeply polarizing, it feels risky to be misunderstood or to be put into a box that sort of dictates my trajectory in terms of how you hear and understand me when I say a thing.

I really do draw on the courage that I can take from the experiences, insights, and guidance of others.

All right.

So I feel like this is like a very Krista Tippett way to start a podcast interview.

But tell us about your spiritual and religious upbringing.

You grew up in a particular Baptist church in southeastern Pennsylvania.