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Back to SearchRoss Gay — Hope Portal, Episode 7
Episode 1154
Ross Gay is a poet, community gardener, and teacher who brings another way of wisdom to the conviction that we have to know what we love and what del…
10 months ago
Joy Harjo — The Hope Portal Ep. 6
Episode 1151
Our teacher this time is the extraordinary Joy Harjo. She is a musician, a visual artist, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, and she’s also forme…
10 months, 1 week ago
Joanna Macy — Hope Portal, Episode 5
Episode 1153
Our teacher and inspiration for this session is Joanna Macy. What she embodies is a wild love for the world and a fierce hope that rises irrepressibl…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Ocean Vuong — Hope Portal, Episode 4
Episode 1150
If hope is to be defining and forceful in the world we have to remake ahead of us, we must also speak hope into being. Ocean Vuong is a fascinating a…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Naomi Shihab Nye — Hope Portal, Episode 3
Episode 1149
In these next few sessions, we investigate some orientations and ways of being that are companions to hope. If hope is a muscle that can be exercised…
11 months ago
Walter Brueggemann, In Memoriam — When the World We Have Trusted In Is Vanishing
Episode 1152
The great Christian scholar of the biblical prophets died on June 5, 2025. Yet, in the lineage of the prophets who called humanity to face its hardes…
11 months ago
adrienne maree brown — Hope Portal, Episode 2
Episode 1148
adrienne maree brown shines a light on an emerging ecosystem in our world over and against the drumbeat of what is fractured and breaking. She works …
11 months, 1 week ago
Krista Tippett — Hope Portal, Episode 1
Episode 1147
Beginning today, and for the next six weeks in the On Being podcast feed and Substack, we’re opening a reflection/course experience curated by Krista…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Roberta Bondi — What is Prayer and How to Begin
Episode 1146
Buried treasure from the On Being archive!
Krista writes of this conversation from the earliest pre-history of On Being:
In the years in which I was o…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Yochi Fischer and Loaay Wattad — On Seeing the Trauma of the Other
Episode 1145
This episode emerged from a private gathering in The Hague in the fall of 2024 with a small group of people who live in Israel — both Jewish and Pale…
11 months, 4 weeks ago