Returning to Religion
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
With Ramadan in full swing, Passover around the corner, and Easter this past weekend, we're in a particularly holy time of year. In light of this, listeners who have reconnected with the religion they grew up with call in and share why they've returned and how they are practicing as adults.
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lear on WNYC and we're going to wrap up the show today for our last 15 minutes or so by inviting |
| 0:15.4 | calls from anyone listening right now who has recently returned to organized religion. |
| 0:21.5 | Listeners, did you grow up Catholic or any kind of Christian or maybe Jewish or Muslim at some point |
| 0:28.3 | and then leave or just stop practicing and then decide to return in a more active way. |
| 0:35.0 | 212, 433, WNYC, tell us a story like that. |
| 0:40.0 | What was missing in your life after you left your religion and why did you decide to return |
| 0:47.7 | to more observancy? |
| 0:49.9 | 212 433 WNYC.433. WNY. 212. 433 9692. |
| 0:57.0 | Why do I ask? |
| 0:58.0 | Well, we're in a particularly holy time of year, right? |
| 1:01.7 | Easter was Sunday. We're still in Ramadan. Passover is right |
| 1:06.2 | around the corner. October 7th and the aftermath might be affecting people's identification, particularly in the Muslim and Jewish communities. |
| 1:17.0 | So probably a lot of you are thinking about your religion at this moment more than at other times of year or other times in history. |
| 1:25.2 | We've heavily documented the rising trend of the nuns, the N-O-N-E-S-N-E-S-N-S-N-S-N-S-N-S-N-S, |
| 1:31.6 | meaning the growing number of people who would answer none when asked |
| 1:36.0 | about their religious identification. |
| 1:39.6 | But there are people who go the other way too. |
| 1:42.1 | 212 4 433 WNYC if you're one of them. |
| 1:46.6 | 212 433 962. |
| 1:51.1 | By contrast, by the way, on tomorrow tomorrow's show we're going to have NPR Sarah |
| 1:55.6 | McCammon who as some of you know has a new book called The Evangelicals |
| 2:00.3 | loving living and leaving the white evangelical church and that's her personal story. |
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