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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.
This week on Interfaith Voices:
Top Religion Stories of 2015
ISIS attacks Beirut and Paris. Donald Trump stated that, as president, he would ban all Muslims from entering the U.S.,The Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, and Pope Francis published an influential document on the environment. Continuing an annual tradition, we speak with two religion reporters and reflect on the stories that mattered most in the past year, and look ahead to 2016.
An Intimate Biography of a Spiritual Leader
A new biography gives surprising and heretofore unpublished insights into the life and faith of Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister. Despite witnessing abuse in her childhood and a polio diagnosis, Joan went on to become one of the most respected spiritual leaders of our age, and the author of at least 40 books. We speak with Tom Roberts, author of Joan Chittister: Her Journey From Certainty to Faith, about this remarkable woman’s life and her continuing influence in the world of spirituality and Catholic feminism.
Featured speakers/guests:
Kim Lawton, Managing editor of PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly
Tom Gjelten, NPR’s leading reporter for religion and belief
Tom Roberts, author of Joan Chittister and editor of National Catholic Reporter
