Randy Cohen: The Ethicist Is In

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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.

Looking Back with the Former Ethicist for the New York Times

For twelve years, Randy Cohen offered advice on life’s most vexing moral questions, large and small: Should you ever out a cheating spouse? Is it OK for pastors to download old sermons from the internet? This week, Cohen reflects back on what he learned as the resident “Ethicist” for The New York Times Magazine.  Randy Cohen is currently host of Person Place Thing.

Inside the Minds of Muslim Extremists
Kenneth Ballen spent five years interviewing more than one hundred Islamic radicals and terrorists, trying to understand their real motivations. What he found were young men who were often vulnerable, scared and full of conflicting emotions – in other words, not too different from the rest of us.  Kenneth Ballen is the author of “Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals.”
Government Raids on Minority Religions
In 2008, authorities removed more than 400 children from the Yearning for Zion ranch in Texas. They were members of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—a group accused of underage marriage and the sexual abuse of minors. It was the largest detention of children in government history, carried out with SWAT teams, snipers, helicopters and automatic weapons. Stuart Wright says military style raids on minority religions had been skyrocketing in the 20 or so years leading up to that raid, and his book examines why.  Stuart Wright is the editor of Saints Under Siege: The Texas State Raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints.
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