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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.
Jenny Sanford, ‘Staying True’
Jenny Sanford found out her husband was cheating on her from a letter inside his desk. “It was clear instantaneously,” she tells us, “that he was having a relationship with a woman he claimed was his eternal love.” That woman was Maria Chapur, an Argentine journalist, and the man was Mark Sanford, then governor of South Carolina. In June of 2009, when Gov. Sanford was visiting Chapur in Argentina and missing from the governor’s mansion, he infamously claimed he was “hiking the Appalachian trail.”
A year later, in 2010, we spoke to Jenny Sanford about why she decided to leave, and how she leaned on her Christian faith to help her through her very public betrayal. Jenny Sanford is the author of “Staying True.”
Ted Haggard on Sexuality, Scandal and Faith
For a time, “Pastor Ted” Haggard had it all: He was president of the National Association of Evangelicals, the founder of his own megachurch, and one of the most influential pastors in the country. Then it all came tumbling down, when a man came forward alleging Ted had paid him for sex. We spoke to Haggard about his infidelity, his sexuality, and how he came to make peace with his wife, Gayle. Ted Haggard is now pastor of Saint James Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Gayle Haggard: Why I Stayed
Gayle Haggard never craved the spotlight, though being married to a famous man threw her into it when scandal broke. But even after losing her community and her livelihood, she felt she had to follow the central message of the Bible: to love…and to forgive. Gayle Haggard is the author of “Why I Stayed: The Choices I Made in my Darkest Hour.”
