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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.
We consider the legacies of James Baldwin and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the challenges they put before the world today.
The Gospel According to James Baldwin
Episcopal writer Greg Garrett confronts the religious legacy of James Baldwin and the challenge his theology poses to anti-black racism in the United States.
“The Arc of Truth is Long”: Reading Martin Luther King Jr. in a ‘Post-Truth’ Age
Dr. Lewis V Baldwin, professor emeritus at Vanderbilt University, discusses his new book, The Arc of Truth: The Thinking of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, which he was inspired to write, in part, by the battle over truth that characterized the presidency of Donald Trump. According to Lewis, Dr. King began seeking truth in lived experience, philosophy, religion, and history at the age of 6. He asks what Dr. King would have made of “alternative facts” in a “post-truth” America. He looks at what we could lose if we forget the teachings of Dr. King.
