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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.
Sometimes, religion is just “too polite,” says the new dean of the Washington National Cathedral. So in times of spiritual need, he often turns to poetry first.
Rev. Gary Hall’s Literary Spirituality
For Rev. Gary Hall, Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost aren’t just poets he taught as an English professor at UCLA. They’re also some of his best spiritual inspirations. Dean of the National Cathedral since last October, Rev. Hall says sometimes poems, plays and novels offer the most honest way to talk about life’s greatest mysteries.
‘Ancestries of Interest’: Profiling and Spying in New York
Six months after September 11th, the New York Police Department launched a counterterrorism plan across the city’s five boroughs. It was officially created to gather information on “ancestries of interest,” which really meant people from Muslim countries. But when it came to foling an actual terrorist threat – a plot to bomb the New York subway system – the program didn’t work.
Matt Apuzzo, author with Adam Goldman of Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden’s Final Plot Against America
