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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.
Jamila Bey was 19 when she told her mother she was agnostic. Since nearly 90 percent of African Americans believe in God with “absolute certainty,” that didn’t go over very well. Jamila remembers her mother’s response: “I can’t believe I have a child who thinks that way.” This week, two black atheists talk frankly about why being a non-believer is a cultural taboo, and how that’s beginning to change. From February 2012.
Pictured: Members of Secular Students at Howard University. Mark Hatcher created the group in 2010.
Mark Hatcher, founder of Secular Students of Howard University
Jamila Bey, journalist and host of “SPARring With Jamila: The Sex, Politics and Religion Hour on the Voice of Russia Radio
In mid-March, an Israeli judge acquitted an Israeli collector of forging ancient artifacts. Among them was a two-thousand-year-old old burial box said to contain the bones of James, brother of Jesus. If real, it would be the first archaeological evidence for the existence of Jesus – physically linking Jesus to another human being. Though the collector, Oded Golan, was cleared of the forgery charge in court, many scholars are still asking questions. Nina Burleigh, author of “Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land”
