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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.
Gandhi and the Hulk…Good Combo
Harvard University chaplain Greg Epstein is a minority in his field: He’s a humanist, meaning he sees a path to a meaningful and ethical life without the guidance of a higher being. And if you look at the numbers, it makes perfect sense that a university would hire someone like him. More than a third of adult millennials have no religious affiliation. Greg Epstein is the author of “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe” and executive director of the Humanist Hub. This series is supported by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation.
Humanizing Pastoral Care
Bart Campolo is a former evangelical pastor who no longer believes in God, but still prays. Jason Callahan says his faith fell away when he left home for college. Today they work as humanist chaplains, one with students, the other with hospital patients. They discuss what they believe, why they chose this line of work, and why they think they are just the tip of the iceberg in their field. Bart Campolo is a humanist chaplain at the University of Southern California and host of the humanize me podcast. Jason Callahan is the first U.S. board-certified humanist chaplain, a pastoral care instructor, and a chaplain for the Thomas Palliative Care Unit at VCU Massey Cancer Center.
“Coming Out” as an African American Athiest
Jamila Bey was 19 years old when she told her mother she was agnostic. Since an overwhelming majority of African Americans say they believe in God with “absolute certainty,” that didn’t go over very well. In this interview that originally aired in 2012, two black atheists talk frankly about why being a non-believer is a cultural taboo. Mark Hatcher is the founder of Secular Students of Howard University. Jamila Bey is a journalist and host of “SPARring With Jamila: The Sex, Politics and Religion Hour” on Voice of Russia radio.
