{"id":1196,"date":"2013-08-26T19:31:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T19:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2021-07-19T14:33:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T14:33:03","slug":"2013-christensen-symposium-featuring-krista-tippett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2013\/08\/26\/2013-christensen-symposium-featuring-krista-tippett\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernhard M. Christensen Symposium Featuring Krista Tippett"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Auggies are invited to gather on Tuesday, October 1, at 11:00 a.m., in the Hoversten Chapel <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1197 size-full\" title=\"Krista Tippett\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2013\/08\/Krista-Tippett-1cvfx18.jpg\" alt=\"Krista Tippett\" width=\"150\" height=\"233\" \/>for the <strong>2013 Bernhard M. Christensen Symposium,<\/strong> featuring Krista Tippett, host\/producer of <em>On Being<\/em>, American Public Media. Tippett presents<strong><strong><em> Einstein\u2019s God: Revisiting Science and Religion in a New Century.<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><em>On Being<\/em> is a spacious conversation\u2014and an evolving media space\u2014about the big questions at the center of human life, from the boldest new science of the human brain to the most ancient traditions of the human spirit.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tippett grew up in Oklahoma, the granddaughter of a Southern Baptist preacher. She studied history at Brown University and went to Bonn, West Germany, in 1983 on a Fulbright Scholarship to study politics in Cold War Europe. In her 20s, she ended up in divided Berlin for most of the 1980s, first as <em>The New York Times<\/em> stringer and a freelance correspondent for <em>Newsweek<\/em>, <em>The International Herald Tribune<\/em>, the BBC, and <em>Die Zeit<\/em>. She later became a special assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Tippett left Berlin in 1988, the year <span style=\"color: #333333;\">before the Wall fell<\/span>. She lived in Spain, England, and Scotland for a time, then pursued a M.Div. from Yale. When she graduated in 1994, she saw a black hole where intelligent coverage of religion should be. As she conducted a far-flung oral history project for the <span style=\"color: #333333;\">Benedictines of St. John&#8217;s Abby<\/span> in Collegeville, Minnesota, she began to imagine radio conversations about the spiritual and intellectual content of faith that could open imaginations and enrich public life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2007, Tippett published her first book, <em>Speaking of Faith<\/em>. Her new book, <em>Einstein&#8217;s God<\/em> (Feb. 2010), illustrates some of the important ways the program and her vision have continued to evolve.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Symposium is designed to reflect and reinforce the principles to which Christensen showed such deep commitment:\u00a0 academic integrity, the Christian Gospel, and a mutually supportive relationship with the church.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auggies are invited to gather on Tuesday, October 1, at 11:00 a.m., in the Hoversten Chapel for the 2013 Bernhard &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50946,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/50946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}