On Being with Krista Tippett
Ocean Vuong — Hope Portal, Episode 4
If hope is to be defining and forceful in the world we have to remake ahead of us, we must also speak hope into being. Ocean Vuong is a fascinating an...
Naomi Shihab Nye — Hope Portal, Episode 3
In these next few sessions, we investigate some orientations and ways of being that are companions to hope. If hope is a muscle that can be exercised ...
Walter Brueggemann, In Memoriam - When the World We Have Trusted In Is Vanishing
The great Christian scholar of the biblical prophets died on June 5, 2025. Yet, in the lineage of the prophets, who called humanity to face its hardes...
adrienne maree brown — Hope Portal, Episode 2
adrienne maree brown shines a light on an emerging ecosystem in our world over and against the drumbeat of what is fractured and breaking. She works w...
Krista Tippett — Hope Portal, Episode 1
Beginning today, and for the next six weeks in the On Being podcast feed and Substack, we’re opening a reflection/course experience curated by Krista ...
Roberta Bondi — What is Prayer and How to Begin
Buried treasure from the On Being archive! Krista writes of this conversation from the earliest pre-history of On Being: In the years in which I wa...
Yochi Fisher and Loaay Wattad–On Seeing the Trauma of the Other
This episode emerged from a private gathering in The Hague in the fall of 2024 with a small group of people who live in Israel — both Jewish and Pales...
Jason Reynolds and Kessley Janvier — On Being Young In America
A heavy complexity is on the shoulders of the young of our species in these years — humans growing up in this time. At the same time, from the digital...
David Bornstein — On Our Lives with the News
A calming and helpful conversation for making sense of the very story of our time, and how that is coming to us and being powerfully shaped through me...
Katsi Cook — "Women are the First Environment"
Katsi Cook is a beacon in an array of quiet powerful worlds — a magnetic, joyous, loving presence. The public conversation we offer up here was part o...