Clergy Sabbaticals

• Falling in Love Again

  where Ross Goodman considers how his sabbatical experience allowed him to return to see his congregation as a beloved community that previously had been "hidden in plain sight by weariness."

Interviews

See interviews with

• Bob Abernathy of "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly"
• Krista Tippett of "Speaking of Faith"
• Agent of the Audience: Bob Abernethy of Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly

  where Bob Abernethy discusses the genesis of the Religion & Ethics Newsweekly on PBS, his role as interviewer, or as he puts it, "agent of the audience," and what has impressed him most as he has reported on religion during the fourteen years that the program has been on the air.

• Listening to Faith: Krista Tippett of "Speaking of Faith"

  where Krista Tippett explains what it is like to be a "professional listener" to others' religious inspiration and insights, her listening strategies and the "spiritual genius" that she seeks to bring to the public's attention in individuals that she interviews. Neither the extremely religious nor the extreme atheist, such persons, she notes, are normally too humble to grab the public stage. Yet they have grown wise, powerful and tender by having taken "the particular suffering of their lives into themselves and found that it need not overwhelm them."

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