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| Krista Tippett is the host and founder of Speaking of Faith, a weekly conversation about belief, meaning, ethics and ideas heard on public radio stations nationwide and produced by Twin Cities-based American Public Media. After receiving her M.Div. from Yale in 1994, Krista Tippett observed the difficulty of traditional journalism — which is necessarily objective and critical in tone — to penetrate the intellectual and spiritual content of perspectives of faith. Deeply religious ideas often sound extreme or trivial when presented in an objective news format. And the stridency of religious language in headline news in recent decades only made educated people of faith more hesitant to speak in openly religious ways — even when religious belief and practice were their best resources for moral commentary and civic engagement.
She proposed a regular program grounded in conversation, drawing out the depths of insight that mature, nuanced, and thoughtful perspectives of faith might bring to the whole range of "newsworthy" subjects. In early 1999, Tippett hosted two shows on Minnesota Public Radio, which met with a strong listener response. In September and October of 2001, the Speaking of Faith team created an award-winning, three-part series — "Where was God?," "The Spirit of Islam," and "Justice and a Just War" — and launched a monthly broadcast series with the title First Person: Speaking of Faith. In July 2003, Speaking of Faith was officially launched as a national, weekly public radio program, carried on a growing number of public radio stations across the country.
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