Speaking of Faith

Speaking of Faith was a public radio program hosted by Krista Tippett that began airing as an occasional
series on Minnesota Public Radio in 1999 and evolved into a weekly national program in 2003.

The radio program has now morphed into one called On Being whose website is here. Tippett describes On Being as "conversation about meaning, religion, ethics, and ideas." *

In her 2007  book called Speaking of Faith, Tippett gives a memoir of religion of her time and ours. I especially enjoyed the chapter called "Speaking of Faith." Here is an excerpt:

The reasoned and moderate Muslim center will not be not secular, nor will the Christian or Hindu or Mormon or Jewish center.  Developing eyes and ears for moderation does not mean denying the importance of religion in human life. It means inviting and enabling the devout to bring the best of their tradition to bear in the world. In the macroeconomic, macropolitical, macroreligious sphere, as much as in our private lives, we must develop eyes to see and ears to hear. Islam offers nothing more and nothing less than the gentle lived faith of ordinary Muslims--at home and at school, in hospitals and in soup kitchens--to counter indelible images of airplanes crashing into buildings. To train our eyes on that is to accept the challenging idea that I live by, that my guests live by: that each person's presence, action, and words in the world  matter, however inconsequential they may seem against the backdrop of this evening's news. Religions remind us of this fact, this faith. Like any political or economic theory, this is empirically unverifiable. I choose it. Week after week, my conversation partners illuminate the imaginative and pragmatic possibilities of this choice.

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  *In my area, On Being airs on WEKU-FM twice on Sundays.