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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.
Choosing Death: Two Religious Perspectives
It’s a choice none of us ever wants to make: whether or not to hasten the dying process in the face of profound suffering. The practice is legal in Vermont, Oregon, and Washington, and currently under review in at least 18 others. Two priests confront the question this week, and offer very different views: one calls it “suicide” and a morally slippery slope, the other calls it “dying with dignity,” and says there is nothing redemptive about pain. Guests will be the Right Bishop Gene Robinson, who is a retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, and Father Thomas Petri, instructor of moral theology and pastoral studies at the Dominican House of Studies.
Sounds of the Sikh New Year
This year on April 14, Sikhs around the world will celebrate Vaisakhi, the Sikh New Year. It marks the day when, more than 300 years ago, the tenth guru of Sikhism created a fellowship of devout Sikhs called it the Khalsa. Its formation is consider the very birth of Sikh identity, and this year we’re doing our own celebration with some beautiful devotional music performed live in our studios. Hear our great recorded studio performance here.
