Experience an unforgettable evening on Friday, July 18th of reflection, conversation, and community as we launch Grounded Conversations, a new series in collaboration with Edwina von Gal and Perfect Earth Project. This inaugural program features Krista Tippett, Peabody Award–winning host of On Being, in conversation with Biddle Duke, journalist and climate advocate.
Evening Schedule
5:30 PM – Doors open
6:00–7:00 PM – Talk and reception
7:30 PM – Seated dinner for a limited group of 40 hopeful friends. Each table will explore one of Krista’s signature questions, with a Host to guide the conversation and a scribe to capture insights
Ticket Options
Talk & Reception: $125 for LongHouse Members, $150 for non-members
Talk, Reception & Dinner: $400 - Includes full access to the evening: the talk, reception, and an intimate seated dinner with Krista and fellow guests. (Limited to 40 tickets)
All proceeds from this event support grounded work at LongHouse and Perfect Earth Project.
Krista Tippett speaks of hope not as wishful thinking but as a lifeline—a spiritual muscle we build by facing reality with courage and compassion. She often draws wisdom from the natural world, noting how cycles of decay and renewal in nature mirror our own capacity for growth and healing. For Tippett, hope is grounded in presence: a quiet, resilient force that listens, like the earth itself, and holds space for what might yet emerge.
For the past quarter century Krista Tippett has been pursuing the great questions of meaning that are newly urgent in this century: What does it mean to be human, how do we want to live, and who will we be to each other? On public radio and on the new frontier of podcasting, she has conducted a conversation with wise and graceful lives, some of whom have shifted the world on its axis. Join us at the Longhouse for an evening of conversation with Krista about wisdom for navigating this tender, tumultuous moment and seeing the generative possibilities of this time to be alive.
About Krista Tippett
Krista Tippett is a Peabody-award winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, and New York Times bestselling author. She created the groundbreaking public radio show and podcast On Being, which pursues deep thinking, moral imagination, social creativity, and joy towards the renewal of inner life, outer life, and life together. It has won the highest honors in broadcast, Internet and podcasting, and been downloaded over 450 million times. The On Being Project, which Krista founded in 2013, also engages “quiet conversations” to accompany the generative people and possibilities within this tender, tumultuous time to be alive. She received the National Humanities Medal at the White House in 2014 for "thoughtfully delving into the mysteries of human existence. On air and in print, Ms. Tippett avoids easy answers, embracing complexity and inviting people of every background to join her conversation about faith, ethics, and moral wisdom."Krista grew up in a small town in Oklahoma, attended Brown University, worked as a young journalist and diplomat in Cold War Berlin, and later received a Master of Divinity from Yale. She is the author of three books, most recently Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living.
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About Biddle Duke
Biddle Duke is a journalist, writer of nonfiction, and community organizer. He went to work for newspapers drawn by the belief in their critical public service role, and spent three decades covering city halls, statehouses, governors, the environment, and our ever-changing world as a reporter and editor at papers in New York, New Mexico, Vermont and South Carolina. For several years in the 1990s he was the executive editor of The Buenos Aires Herald, an English-language daily in Argentina, and for two decades he owned and ran a group of weeklies and magazines in northern Vermont. His work — memoir, travel, commentary — has also appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Surfers Journal, and Backcountry magazine. He currently writes a column, This Place, for The Express News Group’s three weeklies serving the South Fork of Long Island. In 2016, he co-founded EAST with The East Hampton Star, a magazine exploring and celebrating the soul of easternmost New York state. He serves on the board of The Peter Matthiessen Center and is co-founder of the Matthiessen Talks, a speaker series that gathers and spotlights thought leaders, activists, and writers exploring our vital connection to the natural world, sharing indigenous and spiritual wisdom, and fighting for social justice. Though a lifelong nomad (he’s lived in seven countries and four states), Biddle now lives in Springs, N.Y., with his wife, artist Idoline Duke.
