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Winner of a Peabody Award, Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett is public radio's weekly program about "religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas." We are produced and distributed by American Public Media and currently heard on over 200 public radio stations across the U.S. and globally via the Web and podcast. Krista takes a narrative, or first-person, approach to religious and philosophical conversation. She draws out the intersection of theology and human experience, of grand religious ideas and real life. A weekly national program since July 2001, Speaking of Faith is not so much about religion per se, but about drawing out compelling and challenging voices of wisdom on the most important subjects of 21st-century life; thereby creating a different kind of in-depth, revealing, illuminating dialogue than can be elicited by traditional journalistic treatments and debates. Topics range from "Einstein and the Mind of God" to "The Spirituality of Parenting" to "Diplomacy and Religion in the 21st Century." We take the art and craft of radio seriously; and we see radio as an exceptional medium for probing the intellectual and spiritual depths of religious ideas and experience. We see our online platforms as central to what we do, and are constantly pursuing ways we can expand our content, offer resources, and interact with listeners in new ways via journalism's fastest-growing medium. Our guests include theologians and scientists, poets and parents, educators and physicians — both religious and non-religious — and our program listener demographic is correspondingly diverse. We're proud that the Columbia Journalism Review has credited the show with modeling a new paradigm of journalism about religion. And New York's Jewish Week has called Speaking of Faith "the most intelligent and inquisitive program on religion anywhere on the air." Most importantly, we take delight in the ideas, reactions, and correspondence we receive every day from listeners across the spectrum of belief and around the world. |
Krista grew up in Oklahoma, went to the far-away land of Rhode Island to study at Brown University, and ended up in divided Germany for most of the 1980s, most of her 20s. She was The New York Times stringer in divided Berlin and reported and wrote as well for Newsweek, The International Herald Tribune, the BBC, and Die Zeit. Later she served as a special political assistant and chief Berlin aide to the U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. She wrote her book (Speaking of Faith), in part, to answer the question she is often asked — how she went from that mode of geopolitical engagement to becoming a religious person again and studying theology. When she emerged with a Master of Divinity from Yale 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 Benedictines of St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, she began to imagine radio conversations about the spiritual and intellectual content of faith that would enliven and open imaginations and public discussion. When she is not making radio — and even when she is — she is a mother of two, an avid reader of literary mystery novels, a practitioner of yoga, and a lover of great science fiction — currently hanging on every episode of Battlestar Galactica. |
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Kate Moos
A veteran of public broadcasting with 15 years experience, Kate Moos was an award-winning reporter and managing editor in charge of Minnesota Public Radio's newsroom. As managing editor, she was responsible for the planning, oversight, and editorial content of daily news and long-form productions as well as special and live broadcasts. Moos has been with Speaking of Faith since its debut as a national, weekly program in 2003, initially as the program's editor and then as senior producer, working closely with Tippett to develop the vision and content for Speaking of Faith's ground-breaking approach to the coverage of religion and belief, and coordinating the program's production staff. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars in Vermont. |
Mitch Hanley
Mitch creates SOF's signature, production-rich sound through recording and editing interviews, choosing music, and mixing spoken word, music, and other aural elements. He was a founding member of the weekly program production team, initially joining the staff as an engineer. Mitch previously worked as an audio producer of A Prairie Home Companion and a technical director for The Writer's Almanac. He's engineered and produced special projects for other national programs, including documentary segments for American RadioWorks and travel episodes for The Splendid Table (the Italy trip — still trying to work off that pasta). Mitch studied religion at the University of Minnesota. He really enjoys garage sales where he digs through old record collections to find obscure recordings of popes, poets, and progressive rock, some of which have been used in various SOF programs. |
Colleen Scheck
Colleen joined the SOF production team in 2004. Prior to that, she worked with the show since its early days as a project manager overseeing budgets and restricted grants for the Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media news division. In addition to producing for the radio program and Web site, she helps keep the SOF trains running on time by coordinating the production schedule and program planning. She continues to manage SOF's budgets, and she hopes that in addition to our programs enriching your spiritual and intellectual lives, they will compell you to support your local public radio station and/or leave us all your money in your estate plan. Prior to her career in public radio, Colleen worked in human resources for Barnes & Noble and the Target Corporation. She has a bachelor's degree in History from Northwestern University. Besides SOF, her yellow lab, Oban, is often her most trusted guide in exploring the meaning of life. |
Trent Gilliss
tgilliss@speakingoffaith.org Trent is the editorial and creative force behind SOF's online efforts. In his first year, he won a Webby Award — the "Oscars of the Internet," mind you — for SOF in 2005, the first public radio program to do so, and multiple nominations from the Online News Association. He added depth to our coverage by annotating each week's program ("Particulars"), producing video and multimedia elements ("SoundSeen"), creating an innovative staff blog ("SOF Observed"), fighting to release unedited versions of Krista's interviews ("Unheard Cuts"), and expanding presence in other online realms. Trent's a blue-collar cat who's tarred asphalt cracks, waited tables, and even drove a Zamboni, to name a few. He spent several miserable but instructional years in state government and at several Fortune 500 companies. He's proud of his NoDak upbringing, but wouldn't move back, even to study Camus again in college. |
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Shiraz Janjua
Shiraz is a native of Montreal, Canada, where he studied film and once thought of writing and directing children's films. Later, he hosted and produced a religion-and-culture radio program on community radio in Montreal. He's also written for the Islamic Society of North America's official magazine. He brings those media and writing skills to SOF, helping to shape the program through editing and production. He also contributes writing for the Web site, and researches guests and topics. His desk is decorated with Lego Star Wars figurines. In his spare time, he is working on a novel, like apparently half of all public radio producers. |
Rob McGinley Myers
Rob McGinley Myers came to us after four years writing and two years producing The Writer's Almanac. His brain is still crowded with bits of trivia about F. Scott Fitzgerald's miserable childhood, the reportedly goofy sound of Virginia Woolf's laughter, and the largest recorded swarm of locusts in American history. He's also produced several feature stories for Weekend America. He has a bachelors degree in Comparative Literature from Colorado College and a masters in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota. |
Andrew Dayton
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