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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.
Ancient Religious Sites Destroyed By Extremists
ISIS and other terror groups have found a new weapon: the mass destruction and looting of invaluable cultural and religious sites. Referred to as cultural cleansing, this type of terrorism acts as propaganda, even as a recruitment tool. And, a little-known fact, the looted goods are sometimes sold on the black market — sometimes for millions of dollars — lining the pockets of violent extremists. One group trying to protect these treasures is The Antiquities Coalition, founded by guest Deborah Lehr. With the help of anthropologist Katie A. Paul, they just released a new weapon of their own: the interactive Culture Under Threat Map.
Faith Factor
Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump couldn’t differ more on policy. But when it comes to religion, they have something in common. Sanders, who is a Jewish Democratic Socialist, and Trump, who is a Republican Presbyterian, are viewed as the most secular candidates in the field. The Vermont senator and the boisterous businessman are the subjects of this week’s “Faith Factor” series, which looks at how religion is being used– or not– in the race for the White House.
Learn more: Paul Heintz, political editor on Bernie Sanders at Liberty University and Sarah Posner, on “Trumpvangelism.”
