Krista Tippett

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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. In the fall of 1998, Krista Tippett approached Minnesota Public Radio's vice president for news and information, Bill Buzenberg, with an idea for a new public radio show, something to complement and move beyond strictly reporting about religion. Tippett 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. Both Tippett and Buzenberg believed that public radio was the ideal medium for such an innovation, and that Minnesota—with an unusually strong civic culture, the largest regional public radio network in the country, and a history of innovating exceptional national programming — was an ideal center and planting ground for this project. In early 1999, Tippett hosted two shows on Minnesota Public Radio, which met with a strong

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