***Note: Inspired will cease radio distribution after the June 16th, 2024 episode.
Inspired, produced by Interfaith Voices, is heard on nearly 100 stations around the country. Every week, host Ambereen Khan engages in thoughtful conversations to explore how beliefs and ideas are shaping our world, influencing our politics and culture. Drawing on her experiences growing up across the Midwest and American South as an immigrant and an American Muslim, Khan brings a new voice and fresh perspective to the conversation.
The show is an hour-long, thematic and topical. Exploring relevant questions from different points of view, the show weaves together context, scholarship and the lived experience. These voices are nuanced and often missing from the coverage of faith and spirituality in the United States and beyond.
Inspired is the only national public affairs program exclusively dedicated to exploring religion, spirituality and ethics at a time when America's religious landscape is rapidly changing.
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Jeanne Lewis reflects on how faith-rooted work differs from the organizing of previous eras and rejects the notion that the progressive movement has lost religion.
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Kristin Kobes Du Mez talks about the role of Christian pop culture in reshaping evangelical attitudes about gun rights, gender, and demographic changes sweeping across the country.
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Two Catholic women share how they are working to educate and engage American Catholics to examine their beliefs and perceptions about Palestinians.
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For many years, Dr. Duane Bidwell served as a hospital chaplain, working to offer spiritual support to people who were often in their most vulnerable moments.
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The issue advocacy campaign to urge voters in Michigan to cast an uncommitted ballot as a protest vote exceeded organizers' expectations and has sparked a movement spreading to other primary states.
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Women don’t always feel welcome in American mosques. They’re sometimes turned away, sent to basements to pray, or discouraged from serving on the boards of directors. Aisha al-Adawiya has devoted her life to changing that.
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Author Ann W. Duncan describes the “sacred pregnancy movement” and examines three major organizations involved. Their services range from sacred belly painting in luxurious retreat settings to helping process pregnancy loss.
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Samira Mehta discusses how words like “sacred,” “ensoulment,” “mother,” and “baby” have been used by both sides of the culture war over reproductive rights and how they have changed our perception of pregnancy.
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This special segment was produced by NPR’s Code Switch, co-hosts B. A. Parker and Gene Denby explore the curious twists and turns in the relationship between freedom-seeking activists across oceans and borders.
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A group of public health workers in North Carolina worked to foster trusting relationships to tackle vaccine hesitancy among Native Americans.