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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.
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
If you’ve ever gotten into a moral argument with someone and thought your sparring partner just didn’t get it–well, you’re probably right. The problem is, you probably didn’t get it, either. Now that poltiical polarization has reached new, soaring heights, it’s pretty clear that we need to get along with each other, like it or not. So we decided to step back and re-air our 2013 story that asks why it’s so easy to look down on people who think differently from us. We’ll be joined by guest Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. Find out what values matter to you – take Jonathan’s morality quiz.
The Copts: Nurturing Jesus in the Deserts of Egypt
For Coptic Christians, the story of Christianity is rooted in Egypt–where the young Jesus was nurtured and protected from the tyrant ruler King Herod. They’ve lived there since biblical times, often dwelling in the dusty caverns of the desert.
This episode features James Cowan, author of Fleeing Herod: A Journey Through Coptic Egypt with the Holy Family.
The Handwritten Bible
Seven years after he first got the idea, Phillip Patterson finally completed a seemingly impossible task: to hand-copy the entire Christian Bible. He wrote in cursive for four years, sometimes for 14 hours a day, enduring the death of his partner and an ongoing struggle with AIDS. On May 11th, 2013, he finished, copying the last two verses of the Book of Revelation. His favorite passage in the entire Bible? “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” View photos of Phillip’s bible.
