NPR’s Tom Gjelten joins us in studio to discuss his current beat - religion, faith, and belief. His reporting draws on his many years covering national and international news from posts in Washington and around the world. We’ll also touch on his time as one of NPR's pioneer foreign correspondents, posted first in Latin America and then in Central Europe. And we’ll talk about his earlier connections to Maine, including as a public school teacher in North Haven.
Gjeltenreports on religion, faith, and belief for NPR News, a beat that encompasses such areas as the changing religious landscape in America, the formation of personal identity, the role of religion in politics, and conflict arising from religious differences. He is the authorof Sarajevo Daily: A City and Its Newspaper Under Siege; Professionalism in War Reporting: A Correspondent's View; and, Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause. His latest book, A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story.
Resources
- Gjelten at NPR
- Gjelten's most recent book, A Nation of Nations
- The Guardian: Trump abandoning Kurds could cost support of evangelical Christians
- The Real Origins of the Religious Right
- Democrats Have The Religious Left. Can They Win The Religious Middle?
- Schooling in Isolated Communities
- The Real Meaning of the Separation of Church and State
- A closer look at America’s rapidly growing religious ‘nones’
- Secularism in Maine: What Does It Mean to Be Secular and How Does It Manifest Itself in Maine?
- Pope urges politicians to take 'drastic measures' on climate change
