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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.
Lebanon: Where Religious Clout and Political Power Collide
This week, Maureen is back from her travels to Lebanon for the latest in our God and Government series. We’ll meet a host of people whose lives have been shaped by the country’s close connection between religion and state, including the first couple to officially marry in a non-religious ceremony; the archbishop of Beirut, who uses his religious clout to help citizens find government jobs; and a woman in Beirut who relies on the militant Muslim group Hezbollah to keep her lights on.
Dirty Dealings at the Vatican Bank
We open the vaults of the Vatican Bank, an institution that may be blessed by God, but has been manipulated by the hands of men since its establishment in the early 1940s. We’ll wade through the bank’s backroom dealings with a host of unseemly characters, from the Nazis to Italian mobsters, who have made good use of this secretive, tax-free hideout inside a holy institution. Pope Francis has now ordered a major reform.
