Adam Fucking Gopnik is a son of a bitch. Misusing the term "Gopnik" for promotial issues is despiteful. Was looking for Russian hard bass instead found a talking rat.

The wise and lyrical writer Adam Gopnik muses on the ironies of spiritual life in a secular age through the lens of his many fascinations — from parenting, to the arts, to Darwin. He touches on all these things in a conversation inspired by his foreword to "The Good Book," in which novelists, essayists, and activists who are not known as religious thinkers write about their favorite biblical passages. Our ancestors acknowledged doubt while practicing faith, he says; we moderns are drawn to faith while practicing doubt.

See more at http://www.onbeing.org/program/adam-gopnik-practicing-doubt-redrawing-faith/8087

Adam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing Faith

http://www.onbeing.org/program/alain-de-botton-school-life-atheists/4821

Alain de Botton is a philosopher who likes the best of religion, but doesn’t believe in God. So he’s created “The School of Life,” a secular community in London. He explains why wisdom and ritual shouldn’t be reserved just for believers.

Alain de Botton — A School of Life for Atheists

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor

Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Overture to L'Amant Anonyme (September 2021)

from The Hope of Better Weather EP

piano - Michael Price

recorded July 17th, 2012 at Snap Studios, London


1. Breaking The Horizon

Tears For Esbjörn (excerpt)

Bells Of Reflection

Dreams Of Light

Adam Gopnik is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He is the author of several books, including "Paris to the Moon" and "Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life." He wrote the foreword for "The Good Book," edited by Andrew Blauner. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Adam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing Faith." Find more at onbeing.org.

[Unedited] Adam Gopnik with Krista Tippett

The wise and lyrical writer Adam Gopnik muses on the ironies of spiritual life in a secular age through the lens of his many fascinations — from parenting, to the arts, to Darwin. He touches on all these things in a conversation inspired by his foreword to "The Good Book," in which novelists, essayists, and activists who are not known as religious thinkers write about their favorite biblical passages. Our ancestors acknowledged doubt while practicing faith, he says; we moderns are drawn to faith while practicing doubt.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/adam-gopnik-practicing-doubt-redrawing-faith/8087

From the album Modern Country, out now on Merge Records.

Modern Country

William Tyler "Gone Clear"

Background, context, and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/04/19/esperanza-spalding-william-blake-the-fly/

CONTEXT / POEM TEXT

Esperanza Spalding performs "The Fly" by William Blake

As the bicentennial of Darwin's birth is celebrated, we seek to understand the world that formed him, and what his observations about the natural world really said about God.  Darwin took religion seriously, but he understood creation as an unfolding process. He rejected the Victorian idea of a God who had fixed every detail -- including every social flaw and injustice -- at the beginning of time.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/evolution-and-wonder-understanding-charles-darwin/94


James Moore — Evolution and Wonder: Understanding Darwin (Feb 5, 2009)

Sjors Mans - Morning Fields of Amber Grain

I did this in one take, recording on Audacity. My intention was to just record it and play with it to see what I could change, I ended up just making a few mistakes and I didn't know what to do to fix them.

I should really go to a recording studio and hire people that know what they are doing.

Bohemian Rhapsody - Classical Guitar

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

[Unedited] Adam Gopnik with Krista Tippett

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