Refugees are fleeing, hate groups are rising, the far-right is winning elections around the world. Those who want to do something about it are going to need a model for resistance. And there may be none better than the story of a small French community that rescued around 5,000 refugees from the Nazis.
Read MoreRenowned writer Louise Bernice Halfe, also known by the Cree name Sky Dancer, has been named Canada's new parliamentary poet laureate. Halfe, who was raised on Saddle Lake Reserve and attended Blue Quills Residential School in central Alberta, is the ninth poet to hold the position, and the first to hail from an Indigenous community.
Read MoreIn the age of the Anthropocene - the time humans have adversely affected the earth - and entrenched politics of whiteness, Bayo Akomolafe brings us face-to-face with our own unresolved ancestry, as it becomes more and more apparent that we are completely entwined with each other and the natural world.
Read MorePoetry, Audre Lorde tells us, names “the nameless so it can be thought.” On Being features poets across our media and public life offerings because poetry, for all its craft, is more than a craft. It is a necessary art. Poetry speaks to the way we could be. Poetry doesn’t have a single purpose, but it might help us live with purpose.
Read MorePresident and founder of Sojourners, Rev. Jim Wallis welcomes best-selling author Margaret Atwood for a conversation on the effect that debt — monetary, spiritual, and ecological — are having on people and the planet. Together, they explore why Margaret’s groundbreaking novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” is even more prescient today, and why loving your neighbor means loving your neighbor’s oxygen, too.
Read MoreAward-winning author and preacher, Diana Butler Bass speaks with Rev. Jim Wallis about her latest book Freeing Jesus. Diana shares how her experience of Jesus has changed over the years and how the Christian that is she is today is much different than she was before.
Read MoreIn Rainer Maria Rilke’s seminal collection of poetry, The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, the great twentieth-century poet explores the nature of—and his relationship to—God through divinely “received” prayers.
Read MoreThe coming stage of evolution, Teilhard de Chardin said, won’t be driven by physical adaptation but by human consciousness, creativity, and spirit. On Being visits with his biographer Ursula King, and we experience his ideas energizing New York Times Dot Earth blogger Andrew Revkin and evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson.
Read MoreHere is a wonderful conversation about climate change and moral imagination with a leading environmentalist and writer who has been ahead of the curve on this issue since he wrote The End of Nature in 1989. It explores his evolving perspective on human responsibility in a changing natural world.
Read MoreJoan Chittister, with her straight forward manner and deep love of God and people, offers a modern, intelligent, Christian spirituality one can live with day by day. Here are three different podcasts of interviews with sister Chittister, centred around her books, all of which reflect a Christian Spirituality for the 21st Century.
Read MoreThe prayers found here are called Nocturnes. They, and the music that accompanies them, are designed to resonate with those dimmed times when the burdens of life drain much of the light away. These Nocturnes afford a time of stillness in the midst of the dark.
Read MoreMacrina Wiederkehr’s wonderful book, Seven Sacred Pauses, is an invitation to learn, and practice, the ancient spiritual discipline of praying the hours. Macrina offers this practice as a unifying place for all faith traditions, and those with no formal faith at all. She sees it as a place for all of us to live our our fullest lives.
Read MoreThe hymn "This Day God Gives Us" has a wonderful lyric that draws us into a meditation of the moment, a gratitude for all things, and the safety of the divine embrace. It is a modern take on the ancient Celtic writing St. Patrick's Breastplate.
Read MoreThe United Church of Canada holds many of tenets that are emerging in this new conversation on ‘what it means to be the church’. The conversations are important ones. Here below, Richard Rohn in a series of three audio talks - 45 minutes each - talks about just what the whole conversation is all about.
Read MoreHow do we transform and transcend our biases? From judgments made unconsciously to complacency in systemic evil, we must learn how to see if we are to learn how to transform. Center for Action and Contemplation faculty members Brian McLaren and Richard Rohr join Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis Ph.D. of New York’s Middle Church for this special six-episode podcast series Learning How to See.
Read MoreTurning to the Mystics is a podcast for people searching for something more meaningful, intimate and richly present in the divine gift of their lives. James Finley, clinical psychologist and Living School faculty, offers a modern take on the historical contemplative practices of Christian mystics like Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross.
Read MoreOn The Bible for Normal People, Austin Channing Brown shares about her experience growing up in various churches and what we can learn from black churches - especially when it comes to preaching the Bible. Austin Channing Brown is a media producer, author, and speaker providing inspired leadership on racial justice in America.
Read MoreTrauma therapist and author of My Grandmother's Hands, Resmaa Menakem talks honestly and directly about the historical and current traumatic impacts of racism in the U.S., and the necessity for us all to recognize this trauma, metabolize it, work through it, and grow up out of it. Only in this way will we at last heal our bodies, our families, and the social body of our nation. Though he speaks from an American viewpoint, his observations and solutions are not confined to any country but have world wide applications.
Somatic Abolitionism is not a human invention. It is the resourcing of energies that are always present in your body, in the collective body, and in the world. Somatic Abolitionism is an emergent process.
Read MoreSo often in the Christian church, and no doubt in mosques and synagogues and temples too, people ask themselves, ‘where has everyone gone?’ CBC's Tapestry offers to the church and those who feel at once drawn and dismayed by the church, new insight into the how and where and when people gather for spiritual nourishment.
Read MoreYou can’t think about something if you can’t talk about it, says Eula Biss. The writer helpfully opens up lived words and ideas like complacence, guilt, andopportunity hoarding for an urgent reckoning with whiteness. This conversation was inspired by her 2015 essay in The New York Times, White Debt. This podcast is from On Being with Krista Tippett, in Conversation with Eula Biss, 'Talking about Whiteness'.
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