Enlighten Me: Yeganeh Rezaian
Journalist Yeganeh Rezaian speaks about her time being imprisoned in Iran with her husband, Jason Rezaian in 2014 and how that experienced has shaped the rest of her life.
Religion
As psychedelic-assisted therapy grows, so does interest from a new group: chaplains
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.
National Cathedral unveils racial justice-themed windows, replacing Confederate ones
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
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'
NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino about finding transcendence in religion, psychedelic drugs and parenthood.
Southern Baptists expel church as pastor defends blackface and Native caricatures
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
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
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.
She chased 'ego death' — first in religion, then in parenthood
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.
A Hindu-Muslim dispute tests centuries of interfaith culture in India's Varanasi
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.