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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...
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