Krista Tippett - Hamline University

Krista Tippett
Thursday, November 12, 2015
2015 MAHLE LECTURE IN PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
an interview with
krista tippett:
The Mystery
and Art of Living
mahle lecture:
Religious Life,
Public Life, and the
Adventure of Civility
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Anderson Center Rm #111-112
774 Snelling Ave. St. Paul, MN
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Sundin Music Hall
1531 Hewitt Ave. Saint Paul, MN
Krista Tippett has been intrigued by unexpected
themes such as beauty, virtue and religious
wisdom in her life of conversation. The “art of
living” is another way to talk about “practices of
faith”--the being and doing of spiritual life that
our world so desperately needs. Join Hamline
Professor Dr. Deanna Thompson in listening
to Tippett’s journey from Speaking of Faith to
On Being, and what Tippett has learned from
scientists, artists and spiritual thinkers about
improvisation and the mystery at the heart of
being present to the world with all its flaws and
failings.
Krista Tippett’s public radio show and podcast,
On Being, brings a vast range of voices to the
animating questions at the center of life: What
does it mean to be human, and how do we want
to live? How can we listen and speak across
our differences to create the world we want
for ourselves and for our children? Tippett’s
Civil Conversations Project has focused these
questions on public life, in practical terms, for
communities from the deep south to Harvard
Law School. She will speak with us about how
we can all begin to create the conversations we
want to be hearing, where we live.
All surface parking lots are available for FREE parking.
Limited parking is available in the Anderson Center
underground parking garage for 1$ per hour.
The evening lecture will be simulcasted in Giddens
Learning Center (GLC) 100E for overflow guests.
Download a campus map at: www.hamline.edu/campusmap
krista tippett
In 2014, Krista Tippett received the National
Humanities Medal at the White House for
“thoughtfully delving into the mysteries of human
existence.” The Peabody Award winning Tippett
grew up in Oklahoma, attended Brown University,
and spent most of the 1980’s in divided Germany
as a journalist and political aide. She wrote her
first book, Speaking of Faith, in part to answer
the question she is often asked—how she became
a religious person and student of theology. After
receiving a M.Div. from Yale in 1994, she created
radio conversations, initially called Speaking of
Faith and later renamed On Being, now heard on
over 330 public radio stations and downloaded
by millions as a podcast. Krista and her guests
trace the ancient, animating questions of human
existence: What does it mean to be human? What
matters in a life? How to love and be of service? Her
second book, Einstein’s God, argues that science
and religion, far from being mutually exclusive,
are complementary realms of inquiry. Her latest
initiative, the Civil Conversations Project, is a public
forum providing ideas and tools for healing our
fractured civic spaces. Can we find ways to bridge
the gulfs between us about politics, morality, and
life itself?
krista
tippett