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Being (formerly Speaking of Faith) is a Peabody and Webby Award-winning weekly program that airs on more than 240 stations. The program engages listeners across the spectrum of belief and non-belief in conversation about life’s deepest questions.
 From autism to the ethics of torture, host Krista Tippett and her guests reach beyond the headlines to probe faith and meaning, ethics and new ways of being, amidst the political, ecological, economic, cultural and technological shifts that define 21st century life.
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May 24, 2012 - Michael McCullough describes science that helps us comprehend how revenge came to have a purpose in human life. At the same time, he stresses, science is also revealing that human beings are more instinctively equipped for forgiveness than we've perhaps given ourselves credit for. Knowing this suggests ways to calm the revenge instinct in ourselves and others and embolden the forgiveness intuition. This text will be replaced
May 24, 2012 - Krista's unedited conversation with Michael McCullough, author of "Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct." Krista spoke with him on August 29, 2008 from the studios of American Public Media in St. Paul, Minnesota, and he was in the studios of WLRN in Miami, Florida. This interview is included in our program "Getting Revenge and Forgiveness." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org. This text will be replaced
May 17, 2012 - Sarah Kay is a 23-year-old spoken word poet who has become a role model and teacher to teenagers around the world. Millions have viewed her TED talk, where she shared the main stage with figures like Bill Gates and Jamie Oliver. She puts words around what she knows about poetry, stories, and being human and connected in this age. This text will be replaced
May 17, 2012 - Krista Tippett interviewed spoken word poet Sarah Kay on April 12, 2012. This interview is included in the show "Sarah Kay's Way with Words." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org. This text will be replaced
May 10, 2012 - Gordon Hempton says that silence is an endangered species. He defines real quiet as presence — not an absence of sound, but an absence of noise. The Earth, as he knows it, is a 'solar-powered jukebox' and quiet is a 'think tank of the soul.' We take in the world through his ears. This text will be replaced
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