For many people who were never religious or who leave the religion of their childhood behind, it's the experience of having children of your own that brings an urgency to the question of what you believe. — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated. — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“God delights in beauty, Islam teaches at its core, and is beauty. Beauty is in creation, not destruction, and in balance. It is in… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“Spirituality doesn’t look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“But what we did is we studied our town. We did an inventory of all of the things that were present there—farms and marshes… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“...'fundamentalism' and 'liberalism' and terrorism.' These labels only tell us partial truths. We must use them humbly, guardedly, Niebuhr would say, aware of the… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we hold ourselves… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“You have your own stories, the dramatic and more ordinary moments where what has gone wrong becomes an opening to more of yourself and… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience. — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“Resilience is a successor to mere progress, a companion to sustainability.” — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
“It’s a collection of pointers that treat the margins as seriously as the noisy center. For change has always happened in the margins, across… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
