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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.
Anne Rice: Called Back to Darkness
Vampire novelist Anne Rice, author of many books including Interview with the Vampire and Prince Lestat, has a conflicted soul. When we talked to her in 2009, she had abandoned atheism and returned to the Catholicism of her youth, committing herself to chronicling the life of Jesus. She told the world she was “called out of darkness,” and swore off books about the fashionably undead. But just a year later, her faith fled once again, and the vampires came back. Guest interviewer Mark Oppenheimer finds out what happened. Mark Oppenheimer is co-host of the Unorthodox podcast from Tablet Magazine. He is now working on a book titled “How to Be a Jew.”
From Preacher to Doubter
As a teenager, Jerry DeWitt was about as fiery a Christian as they come. But slowly, over the course of his 25-year career as a pastor, DeWitt’s beliefs began to burn off until he finally realized he no longer believed in God, or in the infallibility of the Bible. Then he was forced to confront not only the loss of his faith, but the loss of his friends, his wife, and his secular job. Jerry DeWitt is the author of Hope After Faith: An Ex-Pastor’s Journey from Belief to Atheism.
