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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.
Need a New License? That’ll Cost You
Former NPR reporter Sarah Chayes spent 10 years living in Afghanistan, and in her new book, she reports what she saw. It isn’t pretty. After years of putting up with government officials who demand bribes, sex and cash for routine business, she says many citizens of the Middle East have turned to the moralistic “God’s law” offered by groups like ISIS. From April 2015. Sarah Chayes is currently a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the author of Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security.
An Interfaith Panel on the Environment
The Pope’s official plea to save the planet goes way beyond the Catholic Church. This week, ahead of the UN climate talks in Paris, we talk to a Muslim, a rabbi and an Episcopal priest about the growing role people of faith are playing in solving the climate crisis. And we confront a passage in the Bible that has long troubled environmentalists: the idea from Genesis that humans have “dominion over….all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” From June 2015. Featuring Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb, Chair of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life; Colin Christopher, Executive director of Green Muslims; Kim Lawton, Managing editor of Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly on public television; and Rev. Sally Bingham, Episcopal priest and the founder of Interfaith Power and Light.
