Ira Glass

This is the Bentree Bible Fellowship in Carrollton, Texas, and before that, the Northwest Venice United Methodist Church in Corona, Michigan, Faith Tabernacle Baptist Church in Chicago, the Muslim Community Association Mosque in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Temple Road of Shalom in Falls Church, Virginia, and Our Lady of Angels Monastery in Hansville, Alabama.

We recorded them in 2007, when we first broadcast today's show. ¶¶ If you're just tuning in, we are devoting our show today to the Ten Commandments, and we are at commandment number five right now. Honor your father and your mother.

We recorded them in 2007, when we first broadcast today's show. ¶¶ If you're just tuning in, we are devoting our show today to the Ten Commandments, and we are at commandment number five right now. Honor your father and your mother.

When he was 11 in Charleston, South Carolina, Jack Hitt and his friends back then formed a little club where they would hang out in this one backyard that was all overgrown, which they thought of at the time as a jungle. It had a big brick wall along one side. And they started doing things that did not honor their fathers and their mothers.

When he was 11 in Charleston, South Carolina, Jack Hitt and his friends back then formed a little club where they would hang out in this one backyard that was all overgrown, which they thought of at the time as a jungle. It had a big brick wall along one side. And they started doing things that did not honor their fathers and their mothers.

And was this the first time that everybody else was realizing that he had said the speech to them too? Or were you the only one who didn't know?

And was this the first time that everybody else was realizing that he had said the speech to them too? Or were you the only one who didn't know?

Jack Head. Well, the Sixth Commandment seems like it could not be more straightforward. Thou shalt not kill. But of course, even this is one that is not always so simple to know how to obey. Army Reserve Chaplain Lieutenant Colonel Glenn Brown is back in this country from Iraq where he has served two tours. When he was in Iraq, he would run services for his unit once a week.

Jack Head. Well, the Sixth Commandment seems like it could not be more straightforward. Thou shalt not kill. But of course, even this is one that is not always so simple to know how to obey. Army Reserve Chaplain Lieutenant Colonel Glenn Brown is back in this country from Iraq where he has served two tours. When he was in Iraq, he would run services for his unit once a week.

But most of his ministry was just talking to guys one-on-one. The main issue they have, he says, is about missing their families. But often they talk to him about killing. He spoke with Alex Bloomberg.

But most of his ministry was just talking to guys one-on-one. The main issue they have, he says, is about missing their families. But often they talk to him about killing. He spoke with Alex Bloomberg.

Army Reserve Chaplain Lieutenant Colonel Lynn Brown talking with Alex Bloomberg back in 2007. Brown died in 2008. Coming up, adultery, thievery, lying, envy. No, it is not an afternoon of daytime TV. It is the last four commandments. We have one story for each of them. That's in a minute from Chicago Public Radio when our program continues. This American Life, I'm Ira Glass.

Army Reserve Chaplain Lieutenant Colonel Lynn Brown talking with Alex Bloomberg back in 2007. Brown died in 2008. Coming up, adultery, thievery, lying, envy. No, it is not an afternoon of daytime TV. It is the last four commandments. We have one story for each of them. That's in a minute from Chicago Public Radio when our program continues. This American Life, I'm Ira Glass.

Each week on our show, of course, we choose a theme, bring you a variety of different kinds of stories on that theme. Today's show, for Easter weekend, the Ten Commandments. We're doing one story for each of the commandments. First few commandments, of course, about how to relate to God. Then there's one on relating to your parents. And the rest are all direct injunctions about how to act.

Each week on our show, of course, we choose a theme, bring you a variety of different kinds of stories on that theme. Today's show, for Easter weekend, the Ten Commandments. We're doing one story for each of the commandments. First few commandments, of course, about how to relate to God. Then there's one on relating to your parents. And the rest are all direct injunctions about how to act.

Basically, a list of things that you are not supposed to do. We are at commandment number seven. You shall not commit adultery. And yes, we are at the commandment that is about sex. And while there is going to be nothing explicit in this next story, it does acknowledge the existence of sex. A little warning there.

Basically, a list of things that you are not supposed to do. We are at commandment number seven. You shall not commit adultery. And yes, we are at the commandment that is about sex. And while there is going to be nothing explicit in this next story, it does acknowledge the existence of sex. A little warning there.

In 1976, in an interview with Playboy magazine, then presidential candidate Jimmy Carter admitted kind of famously that he had committed adultery in his heart many times, meaning, of course, that he had had lustful thoughts. There's this thing that Jesus says in the book of Matthew, whoever looks at a woman lustfully has committed adultery in his heart.

In 1976, in an interview with Playboy magazine, then presidential candidate Jimmy Carter admitted kind of famously that he had committed adultery in his heart many times, meaning, of course, that he had had lustful thoughts. There's this thing that Jesus says in the book of Matthew, whoever looks at a woman lustfully has committed adultery in his heart.

David Ellis Dickerson grew up going to an evangelical church in Tucson, Arizona, and he remembers hearing about what Carter said about committing adultery in his heart.