Religion

A new short story collection showcases the diversity of the Black Muslim experience

4:26pm July 05, 2023

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with author Aaliyah Bilal about her new book Temple Folk, which tells the stories of dozens of Black Muslims over the course of several decades.

Sarah Hurwitz grew up in what she would describe as a culturally Jewish home. But it wasn't until she reached her 30s that she really connected with the spiritual identity she was raised with.

She found meaning where she least expected it — her childhood faith

3:40pm July 03, 2023

by Rachel Martin

Sarah Hurwitz grew up in what she would describe as a culturally Jewish home. But it wasn't until she was in her 30s that she really connected with the spiritual identity she was raised with.

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Supporters of President Donald Trump wearing attire associated with the Proud Boys attend a rally at Freedom Plaza, Dec. 12, 2020, in Washington. A judge on Friday awarded more than $1 million to a Black church in downtown Washington that sued the far-right Proud Boys for tearing down and burning a Black Lives Matter banner during a 2020 protest.

Judge awards a Black church $1M over BLM banner burned by Proud Boys during protest

9:42am July 01, 2023

by The Associated Press

Two Black Lives Matter banners were pulled down from Metropolitan AME and another historically Black church in Washington and burned during clashes between pro-Trump backers and counterdemonstrators.

Religion

Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to speak in Winston-Salem

4:47pm June 30, 2023

by Paul Garber

Internationally known spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar will speak in Winston-Salem Thursday.

Supreme Court rules in favor of web designer who refused work for same-sex weddings

11:26am June 30, 2023

The court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines that the First Amendment bars Colorado from "forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees."

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The setting sun illuminates the Supreme Court building in Washington on Jan. 10.

The Supreme Court rules against USPS in Sunday work case

6:50pm June 29, 2023

by Nina Totenberg

The court ruled in favor of an evangelical Christian Postal Service carrier who refused to work on Sundays for religious reasons.

Supreme Court rules on right to seek religious accommodations at work

5:34pm June 29, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Douglas Laycock about the Supreme Court's decision in Groff v. DeJoy to make it easier for employees to seek religious accommodations at work.

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Activists protested what would be the country's largest lithium mine outside federal court in Pasadena, Calif. Tuesday.

Western tribes' last ditch effort to stall a large lithium mine in Nevada

6:13pm June 28, 2023

by Kirk Siegler

Western tribes are making a last ditch effort to thwart a large lithium mine in a federal appeals court.

Michael is Killer Mike's first solo album since 2012, after over a decade of focusing on his duo Run the Jewels.

Killer Mike at the top of the mountain

10:42am June 28, 2023

by Sheldon Pearce

Faith and religion have been career-long themes for the Run the Jewels rapper — if often in a wary, ambivalent light. But on Michael, his first solo LP in over a decade, something has changed.

Bud Light sales fell earlier this year after a promotion featuring a transgender social-media influencer led to boycott calls from conservative groups.

How the Bud Light boycott shows brands at a crossroads: Use their voice, or shut up?

9:17am June 28, 2023

by Pallavi Gogoi

Large companies have played the role of activists and been one of the biggest countervailing forces against social and religious conservatives on LGBTQ measures. All that is at stake now.