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Krista Tippett ( née Weedman; born November 9, 1960) is an American journalist, author, and entrepreneur. She created and hosts the public radio program and podcast ''
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''. In 2014, Tippett was awarded the
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by U.S. President
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.


Career


Study and work abroad

After graduating from Brown in 1983, Tippett was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study at
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in
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. There she worked in ''The New York Times'' bureau in Bonn. She wrote about her experiences in
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in "They Just Say 'Over There'" published by '' Die Zeit''. In 1984, she became a
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for ''
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'' in divided Berlin, where she established herself as a freelance foreign correspondent. She reported and wrote for ''The Times'', ''
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'', the
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, the '' International Herald Tribune'', and ''Die Zeit''. In 1986, Tippett became a special political assistant to the senior United States diplomat in West Berlin, John C. Kornblum. The next year she became chief aide in Berlin to the U.S. ambassador to West Germany,
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. She has written that moral questions arising from that experience of seeing "high power, up close" eventually led to the spiritual, philosophical, and theological curiosities that have defined her work since.


Radio and non-profit media

Tippett received a Masters of Divinity from
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in 1994. While conducting a global oral-history project for the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at St. John's Abbey of
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, she developed the idea for her radio show. Tippett proposed a show about religion to Minnesota Public Radio in the late 1990s. The radio program became a monthly series in 2001 and a weekly national program distributed by
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in 2003. In 2013, Tippett left American Public Media to co-found the non-profit production company, Krista Tippett Public Productions, which she described as "a social enterprise with a radio show at its heart". Tippett is also the co-creator and convener of The Civil Conversations Project, which she has described as "an emergent approach to healing our fractured civic spaces".


Interview style

"The Tippett style", as described by the ''New York Times'', "represents a fusion of all her parts – the child of small-town church comfortable in the pews; the product of Yale Divinity School able to parse text in Greek and theology in German; and, perhaps most of all, the diplomat seeking to resolve social divisions."


Awards

In July 2014, Tippett was awarded the 2013
National Humanities Medal The National Humanities Medal is an American award that annually recognizes several individuals, groups, or institutions for work that has "deepened the nation's understanding of the humanities, broadened our citizens' engagement with the human ...
at the White House for "thoughtfully delving into the mysteries of human existence." She received a
George Foster Peabody Award The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and ...
in 2008, for "The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi", and three Webby awards for excellence in electronic media. Her book, ''Einstein's God'' (2010), was a ''New York Times'' bestseller.


Personal life

Tippett grew up in
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. She studied History at Brown University, and spent a year in Bonn, West Germany in 1983 on a Fulbright Scholarship. She has two children and is divorced.


Quotations

* "Anger is often what pain looks like when it shows itself in public." * "I can disagree with your opinion, it turns out," she says, "but I can't disagree with your experience."


Works

* ''Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters—and How to Talk About It'' (Penguin, January 29, 2008) * ''Einstein's God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit'' (Penguin, February 23, 2010) *
On Being
' (radio program and
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, formerly ''Speaking of Faith'') * '' Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living'' (Penguin, April 5, 2016)


See also

*
Religion and spirituality podcast A Religion and spirituality podcast also known as a Godcast, iGod, Cyber Sermon, or Pod Preacher is a genre of podcast that covers topics related to religious and spiritual beliefs and is often done as a sermon, prayer, or reading of a religious te ...


References


Further reading


Einstein’s God: Krista Tippett and Theoretical Cosmologist Janna Levin on Free Will, Science, and the Human Spirit
''Brain Pickings'' (January 9, 2015)
What Everybody Needs
''Brain Pickings'' (January 9, 2015)
"On Being" Host Krista Tippett's Tools For Dealing With Difficult Colleagues
''Fast Company'' (April 24, 2012)
The Search for Meaning
''Brown Alumni Magazine'' (November/December, 2014)
The Wisdom Seeker
''Cake & Whiskey'' (November, 2014)

''Christianity Today'' (August 2, 2013)


Additional works



''New York Times'' (May 10, 1987)

''New York Times'' (March 31, 1985)
Keynote Address, Political Dialogue and Civility in an Age of Polarization
Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program (March 25, 2014)
Gaggy's Blessing
on
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Radio Hour (February 18, 2014)
Krista Tippett & Andrew Solomon: Einstein's God: Conversations about Science
Live from the New York Public Library (March 3, 2010)
Krista Tippett: Reconnecting with Compassion
video on
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(November, 2010)
For Play: Krista Tippett & Stuart Brown in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
at LIVE from the New York Public Library (January 29, 2008)
"Krista Tippett"
guest on ''Everyone's Agnostic Podcast'' Episode 70, Oct. 19, 2015. Cass Midgley and Bob Pondillo.


External links


Official website
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