You are not going to be perfect every day. It's about turning up the next day and doing it again.
From Krista Tippett
What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.
One of the things I reject in our cultural divisions is the clash between faith and reason, and I would say the same about mystery and intellect. They are somehow mysteriously akin to each other.
Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.
Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.
Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.
Strong religious identities survive and thrive. But more than ever before, even in their most conservative iterations, they are chosen.
For many people who were never religious or who leave the religion of their childhood behind, it's the experience of having children of your own that brings an urgency to the question of what you believe.
I had been a journalist in Europe and then went to divinity school in the early 1990s, and came out as somebody who had the perspective of a journalist and was now also theologically educated.
I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.
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