This atheist chaplain treats 'Jane Eyre' as sacred text
NPR's Rachel Martin talks with author and atheist chaplain Vanessa Zoltan about her practice of treating novels like Jane Eyre as sacred text.
Religion
Lessons from Birmingham: 60 years after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
This city is remembering a dark chapters in U.S. civil rights history. On September 15, 1963 the Ku Klux Klan bombed a church, killing four Black girls and rocking the conscience of the nation.
Kim Davis is ordered to pay $100,000 to same-sex couple she denied marriage license
The former clerk in Rowan County, Ky., was sued by two same-sex couples to whom she refused to grant marriage licenses, claiming it violated her religious beliefs. Her attorney says she will appeal.
The search for a church that isn't a church
Plenty of Americans consider themselves to be unaffiliated from any religious institution. Yet for some, including Perry Bacon, the pull to a community like a church remains strong.
A ban on wearing the abaya in French schools is causing an uproar
France's education minister has banned the wearing of the popular long robe known as the abaya in schools. He says it is a symbol of Islam.
A new website reports on the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community
A new website, Shtetl.org, aims to provide an inside view and a critical look at the insular world of ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Jury selection to begin in Canada for a man accused of murdering a Muslim family
Prosecutors say in 2021, Nathaniel Veltman killed three generations of the Afzaal family with his pickup truck because of their religious faith. It's being called a test of Canada's terrorism laws.
Migrants from majority-Muslim countries were unequally imprisoned in Del Rio, Texas
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Hamed Aleaziz of The LA Times about his reporting on asylum seekers from majority-Muslim countries getting disproportionately imprisoned in a Texas district.
Texas will soon allow unlicensed chaplains to act as school counselors
Citing a shortage of school counselors, Texas passed a law allowing chaplains to be school counselors. Some say it's the government's responsibility, not churches', to provide mental health services.
A city in India has been a melting pot of different faiths. What's testing that?
In the northern Indian city of Varanasi or Benaras, a religious dispute is threatening the city's interfaith harmony.