March 29 Ask the Author Event: Live Chat with Krista Tippett

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 shows, “Speaking of Faith,” has become a trustworthy voice that more than 600,000 vastly diverse listeners turn to each week.  Tippett and her guests – including important religious thinkers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Elie Wiesel, Karen Armstrong, Khaled Abou el Fadl, and Richard Mouw -- tackle big ideas and deep questions:  Why, after the irreverent Sixties with headlines proclaiming “God Is Dead”, do more than 90 percent of Americans say they pray? How do we understand the religious passions behind sectarian violence around the world?  Can we learn from the increasingly diverse array of faith traditions?  How can people of faith help us to understand the complexity of life? Where do we turn when science, law, medicine, and business don’t have all the answers to the large ethical and spiritual questions before us?  Krista Tippett’s conversations are about our common future. Fans of her show often ask about her own faith and how her conversations with remarkable theologians, scientists, writers, and activists have informed her life. Now, in the tradition of Anne Lamott and Kathleen Norris, she addresses religion and spirituality in our world of change in SPEAKING OF FAITH. 

In SPEAKING OF FAITH Tippett discusses her Southern Baptist upbringing in Oklahoma, and her years of agnosticism at Brown and as a journalist and diplomat in divided Berlin.  Her return to theology came by way of reflection on the fascination of politics as well as its limitations. Now she’s living and thinking on the front lines of a reappraisal of the religious and spiritual aspect of what it means to be human--and how that expresses itself in American public life, including politics. SPEAKING OF FAITH is for people at every place on the spectrum from religiously orthodox to devoutly atheist. Krista gives voice to spiritual reflection that illuminates political and social realities.  Her book is revealing and analytical, at once a journalistic and theological exploration of the reasons religion has moved front and center in our culture since “Speaking of Faith” began to pilot in the late 90’s. 

Click here to read an excerpt from Chapter One of SPEAKING OF FAITH

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