ON BEING

What was the religious or spiritual background of your childhood? Whether she’s talking to an astrophysicist, theologian, neuroscientist or poet, On Being host Krista Tippett has often opened her interviews with this invitation.

To mark a decade of On Being conversations, we look back at some of the responses. Guests featured (in order): Esther Perel, Yo-Yo Ma, Sharon Olds, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Béla Fleck, Joy Ladin, Robert Macfarlane, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Darnell Moore.