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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.
Coming Out and Becoming Catholic – At the Same Time
Religious groups’ attitudes towards the LGBTQ community have become more supportive in the last decade, but institutions like the Catholic church still hold that homosexuality is a sin and strongly opposes gay marriage. That made it particularly difficult for author Erin O. White when she realized she was gay as she was in the process of joining the Catholic faith. She shares her journey to find a new faith space – on her own terms – in a new memoir.
Choosing Gratitude in the Face of Pain
In the lead up to the divisive 2016 presidential election, author and religion historian Diana Butler Bass found herself disheartened by the animosity and vitroil in American culture. Yet at the same time, she was due to write a book on gratitude for her publisher, but she had a hard time finding reasons to be grateful. In the process of writing, Diana Butler Bass, learned to find a new spiritual path to gratitude, as she healed from both new and old wounds.
Leaving the Southern Baptist Church to Embrace Two Spirit Cherokee Life
The Rev. Norma Gann says she knew at a young age that she didn’t fit into the traditional gender roles she saw around her, reinforced by her conservative Southern Baptist faith. It wasn’t until she began to explore her Cherokee culture that she found her true gender identity: Two Spirit. But embracing that identity meant she would have to forge her own spiritual path. Norma Gann is senior pastor at Metropolitan Community Church of the Redwood Empire in Guerneville, Calif.
