On Being with Krista Tippett

The theory and question, of course, came from Charles Darwin's The Descent Of Man.

One of my favorite books is a book A Distant Mirror by this historian Barbara Tuchman.

I spoke with Roger Fisher up at Harvard, and who wrote the book Getting to Yes, you know the sort of win-win approach to negotiating

I think what comes to mind are the comments that I would get when I walked through a Starbucks store and I see baristas who remember me from ethos and say, God you know what I want you to know. I was so inspired by what you're doing that actually made a donation to water rate or some water related charity. Or when I go as happens to be actually not too long ago, I spoke an event in Pittsburgh and some kid came up to me and said he started a beverage company that donates part of its profits to fund water programs because he was. He heard about it was inspired by ethos or when I meet people who learn about good and explain how reading an article on slow food moved them to take a more quote unquote local approach to their cuisine. I mean, it's all these little vignettes that in on their own don't seem like much but in aggregate when you put it together, I think you see the fabric of what Paul Hawking called in his book Last Year,

She woke up one morning, not knowing any tradition, Christian or Eastern or whatever. And from a ten years depression became totally filled with peace and joy.

We have a new book out, loving what is.

Here's what my wife says in loving what is this new book that we have. The direct path is God is everything, God is good when you know that you don't need a spiritual method and somebody who actually lives that is living at a level where every breath is prayer, every in in Simone, vase, sense, every every step, every experience putting you know a cup of decaft to your mouth. Making love walking down the street that's a life of prayer because everything in that person's consciousness is good is God even the most what to somebody else would seem the most difficult or unacceptable experiences.

I opened up Patrice Cullors' book, When They Call You a Terrorist.

I think on the first page she refers to that discovery in our lifetime, our generation, that we are made of stardust and she reflects on her ancestors and all that they survived and suffered. And she kind of ends this paragraph. It's a beautiful paragraph. What could they be?

What could they have been but stardust to accomplish all of that?

Well the book is called In God's Name and it's probably one of the only stories I have written that came to me all in one piece.

I actually remember the night it happened, I couldn't get to sleep and the story kept repeating itself over and over in my head.

So in the story, people call God by different names each person naming God out of his or her experience.

And they would have this constant argument until at the end all the people came together and they looked in a lake that was like a mirror, God's mirror.

And I feel that children look into God's mirror. We just need to give them a chance to tell us what they see.

And the third chapter of Pope Francis's joy of the gospel that the dignity of each person requires sufficient resources to be a part of the church. And the third chapter of Pope Francis's joy of the gospel is a part of the church.

If you read Joy of the Gospel, he's got this section on peace building.

And I think I was reminded of this recently when I read this classic work of economics called The Affluent Society. It's Kenneth Galbraith, I think that's the author.