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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.
This week on Interfaith Voices:
Tracing Ethics to Our Animal Cousins
From chimpanzees to bonobos, primates can be amazingly altruistic–consoling distressed group members, even prying rocks from fighting males’ hands. Biologist Frans de Waal explains why we humans can trace traits like empathy, justice and cooperation all the way back to our animal ancestors. From April 2013.
Through the Pen, Finding Friendship and Spirituality
Back in 2004, Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith met in creative writing class. Spiritual seekers, they began exchanging handwritten letters and eight years later, they haven’t stopped. The best of their exchanges are now compiled in a new book. From May 2013.
Featured speakers/guests:
Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith, authors of Love & Salt: A Spiritual Friendship
Frans de Waal, author of The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
