One of the great challenges of life is to learn to be alone peaceably, at home in oneself. And now, by way of a virus, we have been sent inside physically and emotionally, even if ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

One of the great challenges of life is to learn to be alone peaceably, at home in oneself. And now, by way of a virus, we have been sent inside physically and emotionally, even if ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

To a question from listener Vanessa Parfett in Melbourne, Krista reflects on "Zoomzaustion" and relearning the primacy of our bodies. Also, how this helps explain poetry's rise in ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Krista interviewed the writer Ocean Vuong on March 8 in a joyful room full of podcast makers at On Air Fest in Brooklyn. None of us would have guessed that within a handful of days ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Krista interviewed the writer Ocean Vuong on March 8 in a joyful room full of podcast makers at On Air Fest in Brooklyn. None of us would have guessed that within a handful of days ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this “spiritual book club” edition of the show, Krista and musician/artist Devendra Banhart read favorite passages and discuss When Things Fall Apart, a small book of great beau ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this “spiritual book club” edition of the show, Krista and musician/artist Devendra Banhart read favorite passages and discuss When Things Fall Apart, a small book of great beau ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This year Muslims are experiencing a Ramadan like no other. The month is usually a period of both intimacy and great community. Now Muslims are improvising, as in many places the r ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Moral reckonings are being driven to the surface of our life together: What are politics for? What is an economy for? Jacqueline Novogratz says the simplistic ways we take up such ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Moral reckonings are being driven to the surface of our life together: What are politics for? What is an economy for? Jacqueline Novogratz says the simplistic ways we take up such ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We often explore on this show the places in the human experience where ordinary language falls short. The poet Gregory Orr has wrested gentle, healing, life-giving words from extre ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We often explore on this show the places in the human experience where ordinary language falls short. The poet Gregory Orr has wrested gentle, healing, life-giving words from extre ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The best laws and diversity training have not gotten us anywhere near where we want to go. Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem is working with old wisdom and very new sc ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The best laws and diversity training have not gotten us anywhere near where we want to go. Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem is working with old wisdom and very new sc ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

With our colleague Rev. Lucas Johnson, Krista talks through the question of what questions matter for this moment. Can anyone use the word “we”? And how to begin walking forward?L ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem is working with old wisdom and very new science about our bodies and nervous systems, and all we condense into the word “race.” “Your ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

You 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, and opportunity hoarding fo ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

You 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, and opportunity hoarding fo ... 

Go to the doctor and they won’t begin to treat you without taking your history — and not just yours, but that of your parents and grandparents before you. Pulitzer Prize-winning jo ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Go to the doctor and they won’t begin to treat you without taking your history — and not just yours, but that of your parents and grandparents before you. Pulitzer Prize-winning jo ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Books that fortify the young also have a power to help heal adults; so, too, does this conversation with writer Jason Reynolds. He is the National Ambassador for Young People’s Lit ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Books that fortify the young also have a power to help heal adults; so, too, does this conversation with writer Jason Reynolds. He is the National Ambassador for Young People’s Lit ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Vincent Harding was wise about how the vision of the civil rights movement might speak to 21st-century realities. He reminded us that the movement of the ‘50s and ‘60s was spiritua ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Jane Goodall’s early research studying chimpanzees helped shape the self-understanding of our species and recalled modern western science to the fact that we are a part of nature n ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Jane Goodall’s early research studying chimpanzees helped shape the self-understanding of our species and recalled modern western science to the fact that we are a part of nature n ...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app