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• Shai Held — On Love, and Judaism

  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 invoking love feels very soft for our hard realms of politics and war. Yet it is an enduring truth...

  26 mrt 2026 4641 sec.

• Jason Reynolds — On Hopelessness, the Virtue of Stamina, and Showing Grace to Ourselves

  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 Georgetown event last year. I got my chance at the 2025 Aspen Ideas Festival. Jason’s...

  19 mrt 2026 3098 sec.

• Arab Aramin, Robi Damelin, Liora Eilon, Mohamed Abu Jafar — Turning Unbearable Loss Into Ground of Shared Life

  From Krista: A few months ago, I was invited to sit with four people sharing a very different Israeli-Palestinian story than that which comes to us in headlines. They are members of the Parents Circle - Bereaved Families Forum, a very...

  12 mrt 2026 4012 sec.

• Gül Dölen — Psychedelic Science and Radical Healing

  From Krista: The word “trauma” is used so widely at present, arguably too widely. But it bespeaks a tenor of our shared reality. This episode is a journey inside what I've come to see as a parallel universe unfolding, where our...

  5 mrt 2026 4091 sec.

• Joy Harjo and Tracy K. Smith – "This world is full of everything good, everything beautiful."

  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 differences and divides. But in a room in New York City just before the turn of this year, I was...

  26 feb 2026 4150 sec.

• A New Season for a Tender New Year

  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. Smith in conversation together with Krista. We move on to the neuroscientist Gül Dölen; a...

  19 feb 2026 82 sec.

• Jane Goodall, In Memoriam — What It Means to Be Human

  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 last broadcast of her 2020 conversation with Krista.  Jane Goodall began her epic work studying...

  3 okt 2025 3051 sec.

• Joanna Macy, In Memoriam — Beauty and Wisdom and Courage (and Rilke) to Sustain Us

  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. She has left an immense legacy of beauty and wisdom and courage to sustain us. A Buddhist...

  22 jul 2025 3057 sec.

• Ross Gay — Hope Portal, Episode 7

  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 what delights us. And that we have to tend to that as fiercely as to what is broken and what...

  10 jul 2025 619 sec.

• Joy Harjo — The Hope Portal Ep. 6

  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 also former Poet Laureate of the United States. From the beginning of her life, from childhood...

  3 jul 2025 1029 sec.

• Joanna Macy — Hope Portal, Episode 5

  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 irrepressible from that. And she carries and lives an important reminder to us that when we love,...

  26 jun 2025 723 sec.

• Ocean Vuong — Hope Portal, Episode 4

  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 fascinating and singular person. The sweep of his work is about bearing witness to the other side of...

  19 jun 2025 689 sec.