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Krista Tippett, host of NPR’s聽聽radio program, will discuss聽her new book, Becoming Wise, as part of the 91探花 Talks Books series at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 8, at the Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Road.聽
Tippett will speak in conversation with Don Marsh, host of St. Louis Public Radio’s program, .
The presentation will be followed by a book signing, courtesy of Left Banks Books.
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Over the 15聽years that Krista Tippett has hosted her award-winning and nationally beloved radio program on NPR, first under the title聽Speaking of Faith聽and then as聽On Being, the heart of her work has been to shine a light on the most extraordinary people at work on the big issues and questions of the day, people whose missions kindle in us a sense of wonder. Scientists in a variety of fields; theologians from a number of faiths; poets, activists, and many others have all opened themselves up to Tippett鈥檚 compassionate but searching conversation.
滨苍听Becoming Wise, Tippett distills the insights she has gleaned from these luminous characters about the meaning of life in its many dimensions into a coherent narrative journey, over time and from mind to mind, that explores what it means to be human. The book is a master class in living, curated by Tippett but presided over by a delightfully ecumenical dream team of a teaching faculty. The art of living can mean many things to many different people. The questions most of us are asking ourselves today are intimate and civilizational all at once鈥攄efinitions of when life begins and when death happens; the meaning of marriage and family; the human relationship to the natural world; our relationships to technology and through technology: how then shall we live? Tippett鈥檚 great gift, in her work and in聽Becoming Wise, is to avoid reductive simplifications but still find the golden threads that weave people and ideas together into a shimmering braid.