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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.
ISIS: Driven By Revenge or Theology?
A recent article called “What ISIS Really Wants” has become the most read story every published in the history of The Atlantic. This episode features Graeme Wood, lecturer in political science at Yale University and a contributing editor to The Atlantic along with
Yasir Qadhi, Muslim cleric and assistant professor of religion at Rhodes College. In it, Graeme Wood says that pretending that the so-called Islamic State isn’t actually a religious group, with a coherent theology, has led the rest of the world to underestimate its power. But it has caused an uproar online. One of Wood’s most thoughtful critics is Muslim scholar Yasir Qadhi, who says the problem with Wood’s analysis is not what he says, but what he doesn’t say: that the root causes of ISIS are “the hellish conditions Western powers created in the region.“ From March 2015.
More Than Just a Dishwasher: Theodore Bikel Remembered
You might know the Jewish actor Theodore Bikel as Tevye the milkman the from Fiddler on the Roof, a role he played onstage thousands of times. But he was a true renaissance man: he was a movie actor, a social activist, a folk singer, a composer and a general force of nature who sang in 21 languages. This week, we’re listening back to our 2011 conversation with Bikel, who died on July 21st at the age of 91. He spoke to the editor of Moment magazine, Nadine Epstein, about fleeing the Nazis, his love of Yiddish, and his deep commitment to Judaism.
