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Inspired
Inspired is the nation's leading public radio show about faith, ethics and spirituality. Each week we offer you analyses of the big headlines alongside lesser-told stories – those of Orthodox Jewish artists and African-American atheists, Muslim feminists and spiritual seekers. Through these stories, a rough sketch of our country’s religious landscape begins to emerge. It’s a marketplace of beliefs and ideas too complex for sound bites, and too important to ignore.
David Gregory on Leaving “Meet the Press” and Rediscovering Judaism.
For most of his life, David Gregory was a secular journalist who didn’t think much about the sporadic Judaism of his youth. But by the time of he parted ways with “Meet the Press,” after facing low ratings in the host chair, that had already started to change. He now found himself thinking back to his earlier years, wondering what he really believed in, and what he would pass down to his children.
A Post-Pope Analysis
Now that the dust has settled a bit after the Pope’s U.S. tour, we’re doing one last reflection on the greater impact of his visit. What seeds have been planted, and will his trip have a lasting effect on American Catholicism? We also get a behind-the-scenes look at what it’s like to be part of the inner circle of journalists who traveled with Francis aboard the official papal plane. Featuring interviews with Rev. Thomas Reese, Jesuit priest and senior analyst for the National Catholic Reporter and Sylvia Poggioli, NPR’s senior European correspondent
Justice or Else: The Nation of Islam
The upcoming Justice or Else rally calls for black economic self-sufficiency and an end police brutality and gang violence. But some say these important goals are marred by the group behind the event — the Nation of Islam, led by Minister Louis Farrakhan. We explore the appeal and the criticisms of this controversial faith. With Gregory Carr, Professor of Africana Studies at Howard University and Minister Ishmael Muhammad, the Nation of Islam‘s National Assistant Minister.
