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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.
Extreme Do-Gooders: And Why They Make Us Uneasy
If you had to choose, would you save your own drowning child, or three drowning strangers? Would you adopt 20 children, or take a higher paying job in order to give away more money? Larissa MacFarquhar, author of Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help, introduces us to extreme do-gooders–people who refuse to draw the line at helping their own.
The Kindness of Strangers
Bernadette has a plan: She will do one random act of kindness for a stranger every day for a year. How do these strangers react to her flowers and inspirational notes? Producer Kirsty McQuire takes us along for a day in the life of someone trying to do the right thing. Bernadette Russell is the author of Do Nice, Be Kind, Spread Happy: Acts of Kindness for Kids.
Dharma in the Dorm
Georgetown’s Brahmachari Vrajvihari Sharan is the first Hindu chaplain (and monk) to serve as a chaplain at an American university. He’s celibate, wears traditional robes…and he’s living on a hallway of boisterous freshmen in a student dorm.
