Auggies are invited to gather on Tuesday, October 1, at 11:00 a.m., in the Hoversten Chapel 
for the 2013 Bernhard M. Christensen Symposium, featuring Krista Tippett, host/producer of On Being, American Public Media. Tippett presents Einstein’s God: Revisiting Science and Religion in a New Century.
Tippett grew up in Oklahoma, the granddaughter of a Southern Baptist preacher. She studied history at Brown University and went to Bonn, West Germany, in 1983 on a Fulbright Scholarship to study politics in Cold War Europe. In her 20s, she ended up in divided Berlin for most of the 1980s, first as The New York Times stringer and a freelance correspondent for Newsweek, The International Herald Tribune, the BBC, and Die Zeit. She later became a special assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.
Tippett left Berlin in 1988, the year before the Wall fell. She lived in Spain, England, and Scotland for a time, then pursued a M.Div. from Yale. When she graduated 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 Abby in Collegeville, Minnesota, she began to imagine radio conversations about the spiritual and intellectual content of faith that could open imaginations and enrich public life.
In 2007, Tippett published her first book, Speaking of Faith. Her new book, Einstein’s God (Feb. 2010), illustrates some of the important ways the program and her vision have continued to evolve.
The Symposium is designed to reflect and reinforce the principles to which Christensen showed such deep commitment: academic integrity, the Christian Gospel, and a mutually supportive relationship with the church.