Please join us for our first class to introduce and provide an
overview of the book Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living by
Krista Tippett.
Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and National Humanities Medalist Krista
Tippett has interviewed the most extraordinary voices examining the great
questions of meaning for our time. The heart of her work on her national public
radio program and podcast, On Being, has been to shine a light
on people whose insights kindle in us a sense of wonder and courage. Scientists
in a variety of fields; theologians from an array of faiths; poets, activists,
and many others have all opened themselves up to Tippett's compassionate yet
searching conversation.
In Becoming Wise, Tippett distills the insights she has gleaned
from this luminous conversation in its many dimensions into a coherent
narrative journey, over time and from mind to mind. The book is a master class
in living, curated by Tippett and accompanied by a delightfully ecumenical
dream team of teaching faculty.
The open questions and challenges of our time are intimate and civilizational
all at once, Tippett says – definitions of when life begins and when death
happens, of the meaning of community and family and identity, of our
relationships to technology and through technology. The wisdom we seek emerges
through the raw materials of the everyday. And the enduring question of what it
means to be human has now become inextricable from the question of who we are to
each other.
This book offers a grounded and fiercely hopeful vision of humanity for this
century – of personal growth but also renewed public life and human spiritual
evolution. It insists on the possibility of a common life for this century
marked by resilience and redemption, with beauty as a core moral value and
civility and love as muscular practice. Krista Tippett's great gift, in her
work and in Becoming Wise, is to avoid reductive simplifications
but still find the golden threads that weave people and ideas together into a
shimmering braid.
Contact: Doug Halleen (doug.halleen@mentorakid.org)
