March 10, 2013 - On this episode of On Being, Krista Tippet interviews Minnesota writer Kevin Kling, who shares hear his own special angle on life's humor and its ruptures. Born with a partially disabled left arm, in his 40s, Kling then lost the use of his fully functional right one after a motorcycle accident nearly killed him. Being able-bodied, he says, is always only a temporary condition. Take in his wisdom on the losses we're born with, and the losses we grow into - and why we turn these things into stories.
December 1, 2011 - On Being’s Krista Tippett talks with Diane Wilson, professor of Media and Religion, about TV shows that make audiences empathize with bad and evil.
December 16, 2007 - On this episode of Speaking of Faith, host Krista Tippet profiles the 13th-century Muslim mystic and poet Rumi, who has long shaped Muslims around the world and has now become popular in the West. Rumi created a new language of love within the Islamic mystical tradition of Sufism.