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Speaking of Faith

by Krista Tippett
Krista Tippett
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The host of the popular weekly program on National Public Radio talks about her journey from politics back to religion-and a life of conversation. Includes excerpts from radio program. For Krista Tippett, politics was the primary arena of human action, and reporting was the way to tell a story. The granddaughter of a Southern Baptist minister, raised in a family where life revolved around church, she dismissed her religious upbringing to become a journalist and a diplomat in Berlin. Still seeking the means by which the world could be made a better place, she returned to divinity school. Questioning the limits of politics, observing that strictly reporting about religion failed to penetrate its intellectual and spiritual content, she came up with an idea for a new radio program. Speaking of Faith, the radio show, is public radio's weekly national conversation about belief, meaning, ethics, and ideas. Grappling with themes of American life, it asks how perspectives of faith might inform and illuminate our public reflection. Speaking of Faith, the audiobook, is Krista Tippett's own story of how she arrived where she is today-on a journey of discovery shared by countless others.

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  • Release date

    March 5, 2007

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781598874914
      • File size: 192334 KB
      • Duration: 06:40:41

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Krista Tippett's ambitious book, like the radio program for American Public Media from which it's drawn, reveals her deep interest in theology's intersection with today's world. The author weaves autobiographical writing about her own spiritual quest with questions of faith pursued with others on her show. She's not interested in "thin" religion (in the name of which people justify killing one another) but in "thick" lived religion, hard to articulate but deeply felt by its practitioners. Tippett's voice is measured, thoughtful, and intelligent--perfectly suited to the material she explores. Also woven throughout are interesting snippets of the voices of the theologians, scientists, ethicists, and other thoughtful people Tippett interviewed to explore the connections and shared insights among religions. J.C.G. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 29, 2007
      Tippett, host of the weekly NPR radio show Speaking of Faith
      , offers a challenging book that is part intellectual autobiography, part rumination on the issues of the day. It begins with a fairly detailed discussion of the death of "secularization theory" as outlined by Harvey Cox and others—not a typical opening salvo for a spiritual memoir—and then reveals Tippett's own intellectual and spiritual formation. She discusses at length how her views were shaped not only by her Southern Baptist grandfather in Oklahoma, or by her adolescent rejection of his rigidity, but by the time she spent in East and West Germany in her 20s, first as a journalist and then as a diplomat. She followed this period with marriage and a stint in England before taking the plunge and enrolling in divinity school in the early 1990s. More than a personal chronicle, however, this is a rigorously brainy piece of work, as informed by the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Charles Darwin and Annie Dillard as it is by Tippett's fascinating interviews with figures like Elie Wiesel and Karen Armstrong. As Tippett takes on issues from the science-and-religion debates to the future of progressive Islam, she shows herself to possess the same "imaginative intellectual approach" that she admires in some of her interview subjects.

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  • English

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