Religion

Dried Psilocybe mushrooms on a glass plate.

As psychedelic-assisted therapy grows, so does interest from a new group: chaplains

11:04am September 24, 2023

by Deena Prichep

Chaplains provide spiritual counsel at some of life's most raw moments. With psychedelic legalization spreading, some chaplains think this role should include facilitating psychedelic trips.

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Light shines through new stained-glass windows with a theme of racial justice during an unveiling and dedication ceremony at the Washington National Cathedral for the windows on Saturday, Sept. 23 in Washington.

National Cathedral unveils racial justice-themed windows, replacing Confederate ones

8:11pm September 23, 2023

by Juliana Kim

The windows, titled "Now and Forever," were created by artist Kerry James Marshall. They show a group of protesters holding up large signs that read "Fairness" and "No Foul Play."

A rabbi in Chicago holds an annual Yom Kippur service for victims of gun violence

8:17am September 23, 2023

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon speak with Rabbi Tamar Manasseh about her annual Yom Kippur service for victims of gun violence.

This writer sees parenthood as the ultimate 'ego death'

5:16pm September 20, 2023

by Rachel Martin

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino about finding transcendence in religion, psychedelic drugs and parenthood.

FILE - Delegates hold up their ballots at the Southern Baptist Convention in New Orleans on June 13, 2023. On Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, Southern Baptist leaders ousted an Oklahoma church whose pastor defended his blackface performance at one church event and his impersonation of a Native American woman at another.

Southern Baptists expel church as pastor defends blackface and Native caricatures

6:33pm September 19, 2023

by The Associated Press

Matoaka Baptist Church pastor said he was impersonating Ray Charles in one incident and dressed as a Native woman during "Cowboys and Indians Night" at a church camp.

Philly's 'pastor of the hood' Carl Day weighs in as another election cycle kicks off

4:50pm September 19, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Philadelphia pastor Carl Day about how he's feeling ahead of the 2024 presidential race and if he has any takeaways from the 2020 election.

Fallout continues after a Sikh activist was murdered on Canadian soil

4:38pm September 19, 2023

by Jackie Northam

Canada and India are engaging in an escalating war of words and tit for tat diplomatic expulsions, as the fallout over the murder of a Sikh activist on Canadian soil continues.

Jia Tolentino talks about God and psychedelics and finding comfort in chaos.

She chased 'ego death' — first in religion, then in parenthood

6:00am September 17, 2023

by Rachel Martin

Jia Tolentino has a nuanced perspective on her religious upbringing and her subsequent rejection of that belief system. And then what it meant to become a parent.

An aerial view shows Gyanvapi mosque (left) and Kashi Vishwanath temple on the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi, India.

A Hindu-Muslim dispute tests centuries of interfaith culture in India's Varanasi

5:00am September 16, 2023

by Sushmita Pathak

Both faith communities have long shared this sacred city. But some Hindus have taken legal action over a mosque they claim holds idols of Hindu deities.

Evan Gershkovich stands inside a defendants' cage before a June hearing in Moscow.

Jews around the world send Rosh Hashana wishes to detained reporter Evan Gershkovich

10:39am September 15, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

The Wall Street Journal reporter has been held in Russia since March. Thousands have written him letters for the Jewish new year, as the campaign for his release hones in on next week's U.N. meeting.