adrienne maree brown — Hope Portal, Episode 2
adrienne maree brown shines a light on an emerging ecosystem in our world over and against the drumbeat of what is fractured and breaking. She works w...
Krista Tippett — Hope Portal, Episode 1
Beginning today, and for the next six weeks in the On Being podcast feed and Substack, we’re opening a reflection/course experience curated by Krista ...
Roberta Bondi — What is Prayer and How to Begin
Buried treasure from the On Being archive! Krista writes of this conversation from the earliest pre-history of On Being: In the years in which I wa...
Yochi Fisher and Loaay Wattad–On Seeing the Trauma of the Other
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 and Pales...
Jason Reynolds and Kessley Janvier — On Being Young In America
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 the digital...
David Bornstein — On Our Lives with the News
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 through me...
Katsi Cook — "Women are the First Environment"
Katsi Cook is a beacon in an array of quiet powerful worlds — a magnetic, joyous, loving presence. The public conversation we offer up here was part o...
Justin Vernon — Being Bon Iver
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 is a per...
A New Season of On Being
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 conversations ...
Remembering Nikki Giovanni - ‘We Go Forward With a Sanity and a Love’
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 – to exper...