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On Being takes up the big questions of meaning with scientists and theologians, artists and teachers — some you know and others you'll love to meet. Each week a new discovery about the immen...
From Krista: On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech at Riverside Church in New York City called “A Time to Break Silence.” T...
From Krista: I'm on record bemoaning across the years that “love” is the most watered-down word in the English language. I know that invokin...
From Krista: I was longing for a deep dive on the radiant and common-sense hope that Jason Reynolds embodies after I interviewed him at a Ge...
From Krista: A few months ago, I was invited to sit with four people sharing a very different Israeli-Palestinian story than that which come...
From Krista: The word “trauma” is used so widely at present, arguably too widely. But it bespeaks a tenor of our shared reality. This episod...
From Krista: These days I sometimes have to remind myself to keep breathing. I think this is true of human beings across all of our differen...
Five new On Being episodes will begin to roll out next week … We begin with the delightful beloved poets (and friends) Joy Harjo and Tracy K...
The great primatologist and humanitarian, Jane Goodall, died on October 1, 2025, at the age of 91. It is a joy and a comfort to revisit our...
This rich, gorgeous conversation will fill your soul. The singular and beloved Joanna Macy died at home at the age of 96 on July 20, 2025. S...
Ross Gay is a poet, community gardener, and teacher who brings another way of wisdom to the conviction that we have to know what we love and...
Our teacher this time is the extraordinary Joy Harjo . She is a musician, a visual artist, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, and she’s...
Our teacher and inspiration for this session is Joanna Macy . What she embodies is a wild love for the world and a fierce hope that rises ir...
If hope is to be defining and forceful in the world we have to remake ahead of us, we must also speak hope into being. Ocean Vuong is a fasc...
In these next few sessions, we investigate some orientations and ways of being that are companions to hope. If hope is a muscle that can be...
The great Christian scholar of the biblical prophets died on June 5, 2025. Yet, in the lineage of the prophets who called humanity to face i...
adrienne maree brown shines a light on an emerging ecosystem in our world over and against the drumbeat of what is fractured and breaking. S...
Beginning today, and for the next six weeks in the On Being podcast feed and Substack, we’re opening a reflection/course experience curated...
Buried treasure from the On Being archive! Krista writes of this conversation from the earliest pre-history of On Being : In the years in wh...
This episode emerged from a private gathering in The Hague in the fall of 2024 with a small group of people who live in Israel — both Jewish...
A heavy complexity is on the shoulders of the young of our species in these years — humans growing up in this time. At the same time, from t...
A calming and helpful conversation for making sense of the very story of our time, and how that is coming to us and being powerfully shaped...
Katsi Cook is a beacon in an array of quiet powerful worlds — a magnetic, joyous, loving presence. The public conversation we offer up here...
A sweet and searching conversation between Krista and the man behind Bon Iver at this year's On Air Fest, full of wisdom and revelation. He...
On Being is back on April 16, with a special season tethered in the persistent beauty and courage of what it can mean to be human — six conv...
The delightful Nikki Giovanni died on Dec. 9. It is a joy and a solace to relisten to this beloved conversation she had with Krista in 2016...
She is known as the voice of a generation. The Queen of Folk. A legend. An icon, the one who sang “We Shall Overcome” alongside Martin Luthe...
The wonderful civil rights elder Vincent Harding liked to look around the world for what he called "live human signposts" — human beings who...
An impassioned plea, a yearning for connection — the poem U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón wrote when she says all language failed her. Take in...
We are strange creatures. It is hard for us to speak about, or let in, the reality of frailty and death — the elemental fact of mortality it...
Today, a poem with a poignant question to live: “...and are we not of interest to each other?” Carry Elizabeth Alexander’s reading of her po...
We humans have this drive to erect barriers between ourselves and others, Luis Alberto Urrea says, and yet this makes us a little crazy. He...
In our world of so much suffering, it can feel hard or wrong to invoke the word "joy." Yet joy has been one of the most insistent, recurrent...
In this all-new episode, Krista engages biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus in a second, urgent conversation, alongside creative biomimicry pra...
In a time of stress, uncertainty, and isolation, Christine Runyan turns our attention to what often evades our awareness — the response of o...
The years of pandemic and lockdown are still working powerfully on us from the inside. But we have trouble acknowledging this, much less met...
We are overjoyed to share this heart-stirring performance with you, which transpired when we invited the ornithologist/poet/former On Being...
Here is a stunning sentence for you, written by Lyndsey Stonebridge, our guest this hour, channeling the 20th-century political thinker and...
A taste of a special mini-season of Poetry Unbound — bringing contemplative curiosity and the life-nurturing tether of poetry to the very pr...
There is an ecological transformation unfolding in the places we love and come from. On a front edge of this reality, which will affect us a...
In her writing, it is Kate DiCamillo's gift to make bearable the fact that joy and sorrow live so close, side by side, in life as it is (if...
Here are some experiences to which Nick Cave gives voice and song: the "universal condition" of yearning, and of loss; a "spirituality of ri...
A little musing on this season, the spectacular finale headed your way — and ways to stay connected in the time ahead. Subscribe to the The...
Our built world is designed around something called "normal," and yet every single one of our bodies is mysterious, and constantly adapting...
The ecological crisis we are standing before is at once civilizational and personal — intimately close to each of us in the places we love a...
This phrase recurs throughout Clint Smith's writing: "in the marrow of our bones." It is an example of how words can hold encrypted wisdom —...
Clint Smith reads his poem, “Dance Party.” This poem is featured in Clint’s On Being conversation with Krista, “What We Know in the ‘Marrow...
Clint Smith reads his poem, “Ode to Those First Fifteen Minutes After the Kids Are Finally Asleep.” This poem is featured in Clint’s On Bein...
This phrase recurs throughout Clint Smith's writing: "in the marrow of our bones." It is an example of how words can hold encrypted wisdom —...
From Krista: I loved being interviewed by Dan Harris as much as I've ever enjoyed being on the other side of the microphone (as the saying g...
You may not know Latanya Sweeney's name, but as much as any other single person — and with good humor and grace as well as brilliance — she...