Tag: ethics
group name: speakingoffaith
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March 28, 2007 05:09 PM EDT --
Hello Gather,
Since my radio program Speaking of Faith began, people have asked how I came to care about large questions of meaning, how I think about the dangers and promises of religion . . .
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March 19, 2007 05:35 PM EDT --
C h a p t e r O n e
Genesis: How We Got Here
What is faith? What is religion? What is spirituality? Each of these words is difficult for some of us and richly meaningful for others. . . .
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March 19, 2007 06:00 PM EDT --
On Thursday, March 29th from 1PM-3PM (ET) we will welcome Krista Tippett for a live chat as an Ask The Author guest on Gather.com.
Krista Tippett, creator and host of one of public radio’s fastest-growing . . .
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November 09, 2001 12:00 AM EST --
Broadcast on November 9, 2001
Just-war theory was set in motion in the 5th century as St. Augustine agonized over how to reconcile Christianity's high ethical ideals with the devastating world realities . . .
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November 25, 2005 11:47 AM EST --
Broadcast on Thursday, November 24, 2005
From the earliest days of Christianity, Communion was among the most mysterious of Christian practices to outsiders. But the word "Eucharist" simply . . .
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March 26, 2007 03:51 PM EDT --
C h a p t e r Two
Remembering Forward
In the mid-twentieth century, before the temporary death of God, before Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, there was such a thing as “public . . .
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March 10, 2005 12:00 AM EST --
Krista's Journal: March 10, 2005
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June 16, 2005 12:00 AM EDT --
June 16, 2005
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June 12, 2009 03:18 PM EDT --
The Long Shadow of Torture
In the post-September 11th era, torture became an aspect of U.S. identity, a defining part of our national repertoire of intelligence gathering and military detention. . . .
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June 24, 2004 12:00 AM EDT --
Broadcast on June 24, 2004
George Ellis straddles several worlds. He was captured in his youth by the field of cosmology -- "the study of the origins and evolution of the universe." He's . . .
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May 22, 2008 05:25 PM EDT --
The Spirituality of Addiction and Recovery
In 1961, the renowned Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung wrote a now-famous letter to Bill Wilson , the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), describing . . .
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May 20, 2004 12:00 AM EDT --
Broadcast on May 20, 2004
In 1998, a sheep named Dolly made history: she was the world's first cloned mammal. After Dolly, the birth of a human clone seemed inevitable, though most scientists close . . .
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January 27, 2005 12:00 AM EST --
Broadcast on January 27, 2005
In an age of Enron and WorldCom, how can we imagine a place for business ethics, much less religious virtue, in the global economy? We speak with a Hindu international business . . .
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December 01, 2005 11:03 AM EST --
Broadcast on Thursday, December 1, 2005
The Terri Schiavo case earlier this year raised ethical and medical issues that remain with us today. But missing in that debate was a real attention to the quality . . .
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February 24, 2006 03:59 PM EST --
Broadcast on Thursday, February 23, 2006
In an age of Enron and WorldCom, how can we imagine a place for business ethics, much less religious virtue, in the global economy? We speak with a Hindu international . . .
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April 18, 2008 05:27 PM EDT --
Evangelical Politics: Three Generations
I am fascinated this year by how some of the religious dynamics of recent electoral cycles have been turned on their head. Public faith ceased to be the sole . . .
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August 14, 2008 11:26 AM EDT --
The Business of Doing Good
I am moving into a new house this week, and e-mail slows down this time of year for all of us (or it should). So here's a shorter reflection.
This week's . . .
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November 25, 2008 05:19 PM EST --
The Sunni-Shia Divide and the Future of Islam
Sectarian violence appears as the greatest stumbling block, perhaps, to the creation of civil society in Iraq and a responsible U.S. withdrawal. In this . . .
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May 12, 2007 11:01 PM EDT --
We had a lively and challenging response to my program with Jennifer Michael Hecht and to my characterization of her ideas as an alternative — a reconciliatory counterpart — to our culture's . . .
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August 24, 2007 09:20 AM EDT --
It feels contrary to the spirit of this program to write a "reflection" on it. I had to confess to Stuart Brown that for long stretches of my life his short definition of play ? "pleasurable, . . .
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