{"id":1798,"date":"2013-08-25T18:41:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T01:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2013-08-25T18:41:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T01:41:48","slug":"podthoughts-on-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1798","title":{"rendered":"Podthoughts: On Being"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vital stats:<\/strong>
\nFormat: interviews (and at best, unedited interviews) concerned with religion or systems of belief and\/or perception more generally
\nEpisode duration: ~50m (produced shows) or up to 2h (unedited podcasts)
\nFrequency: ~8-10 total per month<\/p>\n

I recall hearing years ago on\u00a0Jordan, Jesse, Go!<\/em><\/a>\u00a0how much Jordan enjoys listening to\u00a0On Being<\/em><\/a>[RSS<\/a>] [iTunes<\/a>] with Krista Tippett, which constituted endorsement enough to get me tuning in as well. I also recall hearing years ago on\u00a0Jordan, Jesse, Go!<\/em>\u00a0that Jordan enjoys hearing discussions about the consistency, or lack thereof, of the fictional \u201cuniverses\u201d in which movies, television shows, books, and video games take place. Those Jordanian enthusiasms might seem to have nothing to do with one another, but the more\u00a0On Being<\/em>\u00a0I hear, the less they strike me as unrelated. Formerly known as\u00a0Speaking of Faith<\/em>, the show aims to \u201cdraw out the intellectual and spiritual content of religion that should nourish our common life<\/a>\u201d \u2014 or, as I think of it, to talk as clearly and non-judgmentally as possible about religions, broadly defined. Most shows about religion, I would think, come the perspective of the One True Faith \u2014 whichever of the One True Faiths to which its creators happen to subscribe \u2014 and therefore must reject outright the term \u201creligion\u201d in the plural.\u00a0On Being<\/em>, should it need a third title, might as well call itself\u00a0Religions, Plural<\/em>.<\/p>\n

No one comes off as a believer in religions, plural as much as Tippett herself. She doesn\u2019t sound like she actually\u00a0follows<\/em>\u00a0all religions, or even several of them \u2014 she identifies, I gather, as some type of Christian \u2014 and indeed, the incompatibilities of their tenets would make that quite a difficult life. But you might say that the believes in their compatibilities, to the extent those exist. Or she believes in the potential for such compatibilities. To go back to the show\u2019s about page, she operates on the premise that \u201cthere are basic questions of meaning that pertain to the entire human experience,\u201d and often conducts interviews with religious or religion-oriented guests in pursuit of those questions. Tippett\u2019s conversations thus make for valuable resources when you need to understand \u201cthe deal\u201d with a certain faith: Brigham Young University professor Robert Millet on\u00a0Mormonism<\/a>, rabbi David Hartman (recorded in Israel, no less) on\u00a0Judaism<\/a>; nine different Muslims on\u00a0Islam<\/a>. If you like this kind of thing, make sure you don\u2019t miss Tippett\u2019s\u00a0live conversation<\/a>\u00a0with not only a Muslim scholar, and not only a chief chief rabbi, and not only a presiding bishop, but the Dalai Lama too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing at Maximum Fun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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