Religion

Survey on religion finds major ideological differences between Republicans, Democrats

5:10am May 16, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas, dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary, about the role of religion in American politics.

Pride in the Pews encourages Black churches to welcome LGBTQ people

4:43pm May 15, 2023

by Adora Namigadde

An African-American minister in Chicago is traveling the country holding workshops called Pride in the Pews in an effort to make Black churches more welcoming to the LGBTQ community.

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Roland Griffiths' research showed how psychedelics can alleviate depression in people with terminal diseases.

He helped cancer patients find peace through psychedelics. Then came his diagnosis

6:01am May 14, 2023

by Rachel Martin

Roland Griffiths is known as the scientist who helped prove that psychedelics can alleviate depression and mental anguish in cancer patients. That pursuit has since become a lot more personal.

Medicaid's pandemic-related protections are ending and that's creating problems

5:12am May 12, 2023

by Farah Yousry

Pandemic-related protections are ending for people on Medicaid, and they'll need to do a lot more paperwork to stay covered. Black churches in Indianapolis are trying to protect the most vulnerable.

A tourist visits the Ghriba synagogue on the island of Djerba in southern Tunisia on Oct. 28, 2015. Five people, including two Jewish pilgrims, were killed Tuesday in a gun attack at the synagogue, Tunisia's TAP news agency said.

A gun attack on an old Tunisian synagogue has killed 5 people

11:32am May 10, 2023

by The Associated Press

The number of people killed in a gun attack on a synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba during an annual Jewish pilgrimage has risen to five. The motive for the attack was under investigation.

Democratic state Sen. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton (right) stands and applauds as Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs gives the state address at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Jan. 9.

An Arizona lawmaker (who is also a minister) is under investigation for a Bible prank

5:20pm May 09, 2023

by Ben Giles

An ethics inquiry is examining whether Democratic state Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, a Presbyterian minister, broke Arizona House rules when she hid Bibles from the members' lounge in a protest.

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Autumn Hendry moved into the Nesting Place maternity home after she became pregnant, but she wasn't allowed to stay after she began using meth and alcohol again.

Maternity homes provide support in a post-Roe world, but not without conditions

4:07pm May 09, 2023

by Katia Riddle

A crisis pregnancy center in Idaho opened a maternity home in the months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The residents have more complicated stories than the home's founders expected.

Swastika Mountain, located in a remote part of the Umpqua National Forest outside Eugene, Ore., has officially been renamed Mount Halo after a local indigenous leader.

Swastika Mountain is renamed Mount Halo in honor of a historical tribal leader

5:52am May 09, 2023

by Dustin Jones

The mountain in Oregon and a nearby town, no longer in existence, were named Swastika more than 100 years ago after a local ranch that bore the same name.

Religion

Rainn Wilson talks about his lifelong spiritual journey

4:53pm May 07, 2023

by Rachel Martin

As part of the new series "Enlighten Me," NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with the actor Rainn Wilson about how his spiritual identity has evolved through his life.

"The rural South is deeply beautiful and complex and contradictory," says Jones. "I really want [people] to know the rural South has something to say."

Durand Jones pens a love letter to being Black, queer and from the rural South

5:01am May 06, 2023

by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

'Wait Til I Get Over,' an homage to Jones' hometown of Hillaryville, Louisiana, paints a deeply nuanced portrait of Jones and of the Southern customs that raised him.