About this title: From the creator and host of public radios "Speaking of Faith," this book offers the story of the conversational journey of discourse among theologians, scientists, ethicists, and seekers who explore such complex subjects as justice, evil, and love--all within the concept of spirituality.
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 2008
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Date Published: 2008-01-29
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"Krista Tippett's NPR program by the same name is a forum for theologians, politicians, writers, and others to discuss the animating faith in their lives and the ways it plays out in public life. As I read their words and hers, I marked a few favorite passages with post-its, then subdivided those post-its into halves, fourths, and eighths. Here are a few examples:
On South African truth and reconciliation: "Truth can be told in an instant, forgiveness can be offered spontaneously, but reconciliation is the work of lifetimes and generations."
On divorce: "God would not require me to live permanently with disrepair at the center of my life."
On scientific inquiry: "The geneticist Lyndon Eaves tells me that the spirituality of the scientist is akin to that of a mystic: it's a constant endeavor to discern truth while staying open to everything you do not yet, cannot yet, know. It is to live boldly and assertively with the discoveries you have made, all the while anticipating better discoveries to come. It is a life, in that sense, marked by an enlivening, creative humility."
On spiritual inquiry: "I have given myself over to questions--large, hard, loving, full-blooded questions. I have become a crusader against insufficient questions and answers that stand in, prematurely and destructively, for both justice and mystery.""
"I love the show and I really enjoyed the book. I could have gave it 4 stars, but I think the writing could be more engaging. Maybe it was just my tiredness and lack of concentration. Regardless, if she's not the worlds most fascinating author she is very interesting and full great ideas and perspectives, or more accurately (and more importantly), she is open to many great ideas and thinkers and serves as a wonderful conduit to them.
"To read this book is like being given permission to exhale, to let go of the various furies that religious extremism can engender in us, and look instead at the vast middle ground in which faith is discussed, wrestled with, and applied among the majority of the world's peoples.
Krisat Tippett is the anchor of NPR's Speaking of Faith, a show she proposed to Minnesota Public Radio in an attempt to model conversation about religion - actual conversation, with a lot of listening involved, in partnership with individuals practicing every faith imaginable. This book is a reflection of that - a distilling down of Tippet's impulse to create such a show, her goals in sustaining it, and the ways that conversation about ethics, spirituality, and religion has created change in her life.
There's a great deal of wisdom in this book - common, everyday wisdom from people doing common, everyday things - and equally, a wholesale rejection of anyone or any practice that would suggest religious practice or spiritual belief can be reduced to dogma, to simplistic rules. Instead, Tippett suggests (with quotes from many people she's interviewed) religion is about doubt, about wrestling with texts, about understanding the breadth of expression people give to their impulse to have faith, about seeing commonality and treasuring difference.
This is a swift read that offers a peaceful, compassionate, eloquent defense of faith in all its forms. A perfect Sunday experience for me."
"What an incredibly open (to conversation, to points of view, to truly understanding other people's experiences) person Krista Tippett reveals herself to be in this book (and in her radio show). I love the emphasis she places on edifying, on being edified-the idea that we can learn not only for the sake of knowledge, but that by the act of learning, and listening, we can be improved, morally or spiritually or intellectually. And I love the idea of searching out redemptive stories, large and small, across experiences and cultures and spiritual traditions.
Two quotes of hers that I dog-eared to come back to later, because I thought they were so lovely, and so full of meaning: We can construct factual accounts and systems from DNA, gross national product, legal code, but they don't begin to tell us how to order our astonishments, what matters in a life, what matters in a death, how to love, how we can be of service to each other. (pages 8-9) and We make the discovery that when we are honest and vivid and particular in describing what is most personal and important in life, we can summon universal and redemptive places at the very edge of words. (page 119) As someone who has, throughout my adult life, rejected any kind of formalized religion as "not for me," and who is now much more open to exploring a personal spirituality (and, as Tippett might point out, exploring mystery-finding ways to order my astonishments), I found Speaking of Faith to be kind and enlightening encouragement."
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