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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.
On Interfaith Voices this week, Stephen Prothero reflects on the speeches, songs and founding documents that express our national identity – a canon he calls America’s secular scripture. And this canon isn’t just the obvious documents like the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Other texts in Prothero’s American Bible include Abigail Adam’s “Remember the Ladies” speech (1776), Thomas Jefferson’s “Letter to the Danbury Baptists” (1802), The Pledge of Allegiance (1892), Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” (1940), Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial commentary (1982). Also, on that same show, Meghan McCain is a Republican Christian. Michael Ian Black is a Democratic atheist. Together they traveled across the country, hoping to see how people with radically different religious and political backgrounds live their lives
