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Two of America’s best-known faith leaders, The Most Rev. Michael Curry, presiding bishop and primate of The Episcopal Church and Dr. Russell Moore, executive director of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, will engage in a conversation moderated by broadcaster Krista Tippett.
Bishop Curry and Dr. Moore, who represent denominations with different theological and cultural perspectives, will share their personal views, examine areas of common ground and explore how their faith leads them to treat others with dignity and respect. As part of the discussion, they will also explore some of the key ethical teachings of their faith (i.e. the Golden Rule, forgiveness, humility) and look at ways these teachings are relevant to the task of creating understanding and reconciliation between Americans of different political views.
Washington National Cathedral and the National Institute for Civil Discourse are convening this conversation just days before Thanksgiving, and shortly after a difficult national election as an opportunity for Americans to explore understanding across our differences and engaging each other with dignity and respect.
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Two of America’s best-known faith leaders, The Most Rev. Michael Curry, presiding bishop and primate of The Episcopal Church and Dr. Russell Moore, executive director of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, will engage in a conversation moderated by broadcaster Krista Tippett.
Bishop Curry and Dr. Moore, who represent denominations with different theological and cultural perspectives, will share their personal views, examine areas of common ground and explore how their faith leads them to treat others with dignity and respect. As part of the discussion, they will also explore some of the key ethical teachings of their faith (i.e. the Golden Rule, forgiveness, humility) and look at ways these teachings are relevant to the task of creating understanding and reconciliation between Americans of different political views.
Washington National Cathedral and the National Institute for Civil Discourse are convening this conversation just days before Thanksgiving, and shortly after a difficult national election as an opportunity for Americans to explore understanding across our differences and engaging each other with dignity and respect.
STAY IN TOUCH
Facebook: facebook.com/onbeing
Twitter: twitter.com/onbeing
Instagram: instagram.com/onbeing
Newsletter: onbeing.org/newsletter
OUR PODCASTS
On Being with Krista Tippett: onbeing.org/series/podcast
This Movie Changed Me: onbeing.org/series/this-movie-changed-me
Becoming Wise: onbeing.org/series/becoming-wise
Poetry Unbound: onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound






![In the Room with Matthew Sanford and Krista Tippett
Watch this special in-studio recording of Krista Tippetts 2006 interview with renowned yoga teacher Matthew Sanford. A wondrous, buried treasure from the 20-year On Being archive.
Be prepared, as you listen to what follows, to take in subtleties and gracefulness youve never before pondered — or tried to feel in yourself — in the interplay between your mind and your body.
Matthew has an immensely energetic physical presence. He has been paralyzed from the chest down since a car accident in 1978. But he likes to say that his experience is only more extreme, not so different, from that of everyone else. Hes written, We are all leaving our bodies — this is the inevitable arc of living. Death cannot be avoided; neither can the inward silence that comes with the aging process. Matthew’s intricate knowledge of that inward silence, which he was forced to befriend after the noisy connections which most of us take for granted were severed — it’s revelatory. So is his insistence that it’s not possible to live more deeply in your body — in all its grace and all its flaws — without becoming more compassionate towards all of life. And: if you do yoga, you will never think about what it is affecting inside you in the same way again.
Krista sat with Matthew Sanford just after hed published his beautiful book Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence.
[This interview is unedited and uses autogenerated closed captioning. You can find the edited and produced interview with music and full closed captioning in the On Being episode Matthew Sanford — The Bodys Grace. Listen here: https://youtu.be/zFP5EknSJt8 ] In the Room with Matthew Sanford and Krista Tippett](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hJ5DPLuChKw/mqdefault.jpg)



